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Literary Nonfiction. Marketing is blamed on everything from childhood obesity to youth violence. CANDY FROM STRANGERS goes behind the headlines to offer an unbiased and in-depth look at the relationship between children and mass media. Refusing to offer easy answers, Stephen Dale raises the rarely voiced concern that our hand-wringing about media and its effect on kids may distract us from the truly important issues facing future generations.
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Born in Hamilton in 1958, Stephen Dale was staff writer at NOW magazine in the 1980's, and in the 1990's made documentaries for CBC Radio's Ideas program and worked as a Canadian correspondent for Inter-Press Service, a third world news agency. Recently, he was a columnist for Treehouse Canadian Farily magazine. His articles have appeared in publications such as the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, This Magazine, New York Newsday, The Washington Post, Canadian Forum, and Toronto Life.
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- PublisherNew Star Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1554200156
- ISBN 13 9781554200153
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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ISBN 10: 1554200156
ISBN 13: 9781554200153
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: VG. Solid retired library book with usual library markings; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Overall, a very nice clean copy. At a time when mass marketing is blamed for everything from childhood obesity to youth violence, Stephen Dale offers an alternative view. An unbiased and in-depth look at the subject of kids and mass media, Candy from Strangers raises the question: Are children victims of the marketing world? Or could they in fact be sophisticated participants in consumer culture? In this provocative examination, Stephen Dale takes on such hot-button topics as violence in television programs and video games and wonders whether or not they really stoke kids' aggression. His book examines competing theories about advertising and its effects on children. Some experts claim marketing is benign and informative, and others see children's media-fueled demands as destructive to the very fabric of family life. And it takes us from the natural habitat of the fabled "cool hunter," through experts in their dens, to the ecosystems of kids themselves. Instead of offering easy answers, Dale raises the rarely voiced concern that our hand-wringing about media and its effects on kids may distract us from the truly important issues facing future generations. 240 pages. Seller Inventory # WB050577
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