Who's raising the kids? : big tech, big business, and the lives of children / Susan Linn.
"From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood-and what we can do about it"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781620972274
- ISBN: 1620972271
- Physical Description: xvi, 330 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : The New Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-316) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | What children need and why corporations can't provide it -- Who wins the game tech plays? -- And the brand plays on -- Browse! Click! Buy! Repeat! -- How rewarding are rewards? -- The nagging problem of pester power -- Divisive devices -- Bias for sale -- Branded learning -- Big Tech goes to school -- Is that hope? -- Resistance parenting: Suggestions for keeping Big Tech and Big Business at bay -- Making a difference for everybody's kids. |
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Subject: | Technology and children. Technology and youth. Child rearing. Marketing. Amusements. Technologie et enfants. Technologie et jeunesse. Éducation des enfants. Marketing. marketing. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | 302.23083 LINN 2022 (Text) | 0001012485614 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Who's Raising the Kids? : Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood--and what we can do about it "Engrossing and insightful . . . rich with details that paint a full portrait of contemporary child-corporate relations." --Zephyr Teachout, The New York Times Book Review Even before COVID-19, digital technologies had become deeply embedded in children's lives, despite a growing body of research detailing the harms of excessive immersion in the unregulated, powerfully seductive world of the "kid-tech" industry. In the "must read" (Library Journal, starred review) Who's Raising the Kids?, Susan Linn--one of the world's leading experts on the impact of Big Tech and big business on children--weaves an "eye-opening and disturbing exploration of how marketing tech to children is creating a passive, dysfunctional generation" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). From birth, kids have become lucrative fodder for tech, media, and toy companies, from producers of exploitative games and social media platforms to "educational" technology and branded school curricula of dubious efficacy. Written with humor and compassion, Who's Raising the Kids? is a unique and highly readable social critique and guide to protecting kids from exploitation by the tech, toy, and entertainment industries. Two hopeful chapters--"Resistance Parenting" and "Making a Difference for Everybody's Kids"--chart a path to allowing kids to be the children they need to be.