Word: adatto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First displaying a century-old studio portrait of an innocent young girl looking naively into the distance, Director of Children's Studies at Harvard Kiku R. Adatto flipped the projector to reveal a shot of a naked, waiflike Kate Moss gazing erotically into the camera while peddling Calvin Klein perfume...
With this contrast, Adatto opened last night's Institute of Politics forum, entitled "Sex, Commercialism and the Disappearance of Childhood," and began the presentation on the changing image of childhood in America...
...addition to Adatto, the panel at the ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School of Government included moderator Michael J. Sandel, professor of government; Alvin F. Poussaint, a Harvard Medical School clinical professor of psychiatry, and Bill Kovach, a former journalist and the curator of the Nieman Foundation...
Focusing her talk on the media's role in the recent blurring of lines between society's image of children and of adults, Adatto delivered her presentation against a backdrop of increasingly provocative images from the turn of the century up to modern pop advertisements. In words and pictures, Adatto chronicled the growing objectification of child sexuality in modern culture...
...surprise that the impetus comes from a guilty press corps, which has been lambasted of late for its obsession with "horse race" journalism, for covering campaigns as if they were sports and mincing substance into sound bites. According to one study by journalist Kiku Adatto, the average sound bite on the evening news in presidential elections went from 42.3 sec. in 1968 to 8.4 sec. in 1992. And while sound bites are taking up less airtime, punditry is taking up more. A study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs shows that television correspondents covering the 1996 campaign talk...