|
The
Commercialization of Childhood:
How
Marketing Harms Children Summit
2001
Presentations |
| "Overview of the
Commercialization of Childhood" by Susan Linn, EdD, Associate Director of the Media
Center at Judge Baker Children’s Center in Boston and Instructor in
Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Her work on behalf of children has been
featured on Mister Rogers Neighborhood, Today, and Good Morning America. |
| "Commercialism and Children:
Targeting the Unsuspecting" by Steven P.Shelov, M.D., chairman of the department of
Pediatrics at Maimonedes Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. |
| "The Psychology of Childhood
Consumerism: You Are What You Buy" by Allen Kanner, PhD, psychologist at the Wright
Institute in Berkeley, California. |
| "Research on Materialism and
Well-being" by Tim Kasser, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology at
Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. His book, The Value of Materialism: A
Psychological Inquiry, will be published in the spring of 2002 by MIT Press. |
| "Fighting For Our Kids' Souls:
Parental Concerns About Marketing Mania" by Eric Brown,
Communications Director - The Center
for a New American Dream in Takoma Park, Maryland. |
| "Do You See What I See?"
by Joe Kelly, executive Director of Dads and Daughters
in Duluth, Minnesota. Broadway Books releases his book, Dads and Daughters:
How to Inspire, Understand, and Support Your Daughter When She’s Growing Up So
Fast in April, 2002. |
| "The Dress Mess:
Commercialism and Fashion-Related Challenges to Youth" by Velma LaPoint,
PhD, Associate Professor of Human
Development and Psycho-Educational Studies in the School of Education, |
| "Schools Should be
Commercial Free Zones" by Andrew Hagelshaw, Executive Director of the Center
for Commercial-Free Public Education in Oakland, California. |
| "A High School Student's
Perspective on Marketing in Schools" by Nell Geiser, a senior at New Vista high school in Boulder
Colorado and writing a book about youth organizing. |
| "How Food Marketers Endanger
the Health of School Children" by Jane Levine, EdD, Co-founder of Kids Can Made A
Difference in Kittery Point, Maine. |
| "Commercialism as
Stress in Family Life" by Priscilla Hambrick-Dixon, PhD, Assistant Professor in
the School of Education at Hunter College-City University of New York. |
| "Commercialism As A Source of
Stress in Family Life" by Enola Aird J.D., Director of The Motherhood Project
at the Institute for American Values. |
| "Deadly Persuasion:
Marketing Alcohol & Tobacco to Children" by Jean Kilbourne,
EdD, Visiting Research Scholar at the
Wellesley Centers for Women; author of Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising
Changes the Way We Think and Feel; and producer of films including
"Pack of Lies” and “Killing Us Softly.” |
| "The Hazards of Marketing
Violence to Children" by Diane Levin, PhD, Professor of Education at Wheelock
College in Boston and author of Remote Control Childhood?: Combating the
Hazards of Media Culture and Teaching Young Children in Violent Times:
Building a Peaceable Classroom. She is a founder of Teachers Resisting
Unhealthy Children Entertainment (TRUCE) and the program "Media Education
in a Violent Society." |
| "Coping with the Marketing of
Media Violence: The Promise and Limitations of Media Literacy" by
Joanne Cantor, PhD, Professor Emeritus at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communication Arts. She is the
author of Mommy I'm Scared: How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We
Can Do To Protect Them. |
| "Just Click and Buy:
Interactive Media and the Commercialization of Youth" by Amy Aidman, PhD, Senior Research Fellow for the
Center for Media Education, a non-profit research and policy organization that
focuses on issues concerning children, youth, and the media environment. |
| "The Hidden Cost of 'Free'
Information" by Alan Warhaftig, Director of Learning in the Real
World |
| "Reducing Children to Dollars
and Cents" by Joan Almon, Coordinator of the Alliance for
Childhood in College Park, Maryland, which published Fool's Gold: A Critical
Look at Computers in Childhood. |
| "The Swedish Ban on
Advertising to Children" by Nina Ersman, Press Counselor,
Embassy of Sweden |