Commercializing Childhood: The Corporate Takeover of Kids’ Lives
Source: Multinational Monitor
Susan Linn is associate director of the Media Center at Judge Baker Children’s Center and instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is also co-founder and director of the coalition Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC). She is the author of The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World (2008) and Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (2004).
Multinational Monitor: How much advertising and marketing is directed at kids in the United States? How has this changed over the last 20 years?