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CONSUMING KIDS:Toying with Children's Health

February 14, 2004, New York City

 

Presentations

Alvin Poussaint, MD, Judge Baker Children's Center and Harvard Medical School.  Introduction.

Susan Linn, EdD, Judge Baker Children's Center.  Consuming Kids: The hostile takeover of childhood. 

Rose Dyson, EdD, Canadians Concerned about Violence in Entertainment (C-CAVE), Globalization, Mergers and Media Violence: Links with the Commercial Exploitation of Children.

Allen Kanner, PhD.  Toying with the World: Globalization and the Commercialization of Childhood.

Margo Wootan, Dsc, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).  Marketing Obesity to Children.

Diane Levin, PhD, Wheelock College.  Toying with Children’s Health: How the Business of Play Harms Children.

Michael Brody, MD, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: 5 Years at the Toy Fair.

Joan Almon, Alliance for Childhood.  More Isn’t Always Merrier: How Flooding the Market with Toys Hurts Children.

James Johnson, PhD, Pennsylvania State University.  Can Good Things Happen When the Immovable Mass of the Toy Market Meets the Irresistible Force of Play?

Daniel Hade, PhD, Pennsylvania State University.  Curious George gets Branded: Children’s Books as Advertising.

Daphne White, Lion & Lamb Project.  Sex, Violence and Video Games: Marketing Cruelty to Children.

Nancy Carlsson-Paige, EdD, Lesley College .  Consuming Families: Voices of Parents.

Lisa Flythe: Problems with Self-Regulation of Commercial Standards.

Timothy Kasser, PhD, Knox College.  The High Price of Materialism for Kids: Recent Empirical Research

Joe Kelly, Dads and Daughters.  Kids Marketing and the Suffocating Gender Straightjacket.

Margo Maine, PhD, Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group.  Global Girls in Consumer Culture: I Want; Therefore, I Am

Velma LaPoint, PhD, Howard University School of Education.  Children of Color and Poor Children: Health Challenges from Commercialism.

Arnold Fege, Public Advocacy for Kids (PAK).  The Commercialization of America’s Public Schools.

Jim Metrock, Obligation Inc.  Forcing Schoolchildren to Watch Commercials: Channel One's Brand of Indentured Servitude

Christine Quail, Brooklyn College.  Is Corporate News for Kids Good for their Civic Health?

Karen Lewis, TV-Turnoff Network.  Turning Off the Ultimate Marketing Machine.

Jonathan Shenkin, DDS, Boston University.  Dodging Bullets: The Soft Drink Industry's Response to Public Pressure.

Juliet Schor, PhD, Boston College.  Marketing to Children: Effective Reform when the Genie is out of the Bottle

Richard Daynard, Public Health Advocacy Institute, Northeastern UniversityUsing the Law to Stop Exploitation.

Rob Williams, Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME).  Media Literacy and Activism: Building Coalitions in our Classrooms and Communities.

Enola Aird, The Motherhood Project.  A Call to Action.


 

 

 

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