A conversation with author and child advocate Susan Linn
Susan Linn
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It’s an Ad World After All
Is it legal for a company to take out Internet ads on your name after you’ve filed a complaint against it? Apparently so.
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Honey, I Sold the Kids
In her new book, Consuming Kids, ventriloquist-turned-child-psychologist Susan Linn tries to build a movement to regulate marketing to children. You say there has been an explosion of marketing to children. What do you mean? The proliferation of electronic media that happened in the ‘80s and the early ‘90s has made kids more vulnerable then ever. […]
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Connected Kids
When it comes to kids building community, is the Internet more like a Girl Scout troop or a television set? In the second half of the 20th Century, Americans’ social connectedness plummeted. Observers place much of the blame for this decline of community on the growth of television watching — instead of attending social or […]