Sexualized media messages and our children
Subtitle: teaching kids to be smart critics and consumers
By: Jennifer W. Shewmaker
Series: Childhood in America
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781440833335; 9781440833342
Subjects: Mass media and children; Mass media and sex; Sex in mass media
Description: In this eye-opening book, child psychologist Jennifer W. Shewmaker explains that the manner in which a child is raised influences how they respond to media messages, particularly those shaded by sexual overtones. This text takes a hard look at the impact of advertisements, products, and entertainment on a child's psyche and offers strategies for helping kids become aware, critical, active media consumers. Drawing from research in a wide variety of disciplines, this book explores the interpersonal factors within children's lives that impact how they learn to process sexualized media messages. The book argues that an increase in marketing to children along with media-based fabrications of beauty, masculinity, and femininity impact the confidence and character of young children who are often greatly affected by what they see and hear. The author shares invaluable tips for promoting strengths in children and adolescents of both genders and presents the protective influence of communities to help children dismiss distorted media images"--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mediating variables; title: Development in context; title: Disney, Apple, and the case of the missing childhood; title: The culture of celebrity; title: The family matters; title: Boy versus girl; title: It takes a village; title: Promoting media activism and creation.