Word: consumerized
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PESTER POWER. Tweening. Viral marketing. Juliet Schor, a psychiatrist and economist, exposes the multibillion-dollar advertising schemes aimed at America's kids in Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. TIME met with Schor:
What impact does all of this have on kids? I found that with most of the kids I interviewed and surveyed, the more consumer culture they were involved in, the more they had conflicts and fights with their parents. Those kids who are heavily involved in consumer culture are depressed...
When he took charge of the Finance Ministry in April, Nicolas Sarkozy had one goal: to kick-start the stalled French economy. Boosting consumer spending seemed an obvious place to start. But Sarkozy, as always, was in a hurry: instead of spending months trying to push through a complex legislative...
It’s important to keep bias and sensationalism separate. Media bias is as old as the printing press, and it’s not going away. Sensationalism, however, has only as much staying power as we media consumers give it. Recently, we’ve been a bit...
“Is there enough activist filmmaking today?” I ask Russell, who once worked as for a Massachusetts consumer advocacy group.