Title:
Who's raising the kids? : big tech, big business, and the lives of children
Author:
Linn, Susan, author.
ISBN:
9781620972274
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xvi, 330 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
"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.
