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Who’s Raising the Kids? audiobook
- By: Susan Linn
- Narrator: Susan Linn
- Category: Children's Studies, Social Science
- Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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Who’s Raising the Kids? Audiobook Summary
From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children comes a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood—and what we can do about it.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, digital technologies had become deeply embedded in children’s lives, despite a growing body of research detailing the harms of excessive immersion in the unregulated, powerfully seductive, profit-driven world of the “kid-tech” industry.
In Who’s Raising the Kids? Linn—one of the world’s leading experts on the impact of Big Tech and big business on children—explores the roots and consequences of this monumental shift toward a digitized, commercialized childhood, focusing on kids’ values, relationships, and learning.
From birth, kids have become lucrative fodder for a range of tech, media, and toy companies, from producers of exploitative games and social media platforms to “educational” technology and branded school curricula of dubious efficacy.
Noting that many Silicon Valley elites wouldn’t dream of exposing their young kids to the very technologies they have unleashed on other people’s children, Who’s Raising the Kids? is unique—a highly readable social critique and guide to protecting kids from exploitation by the tech, toy, and entertainment industries.
Linn provides a deep and eye-opening dive into exactly how new technologies enable huge conglomerates to transform young children into lifelong consumers by infiltrating their lives and influencing their values, relationships, and learning. She persuasively argues that our digitized-commercialized culture is damaging for kids and families as well as society at large, and maps out what we must do to change course.
Written with humor and compassion, the book concludes with two hopeful chapters—“Resistance Parenting” and “Making a Difference for Everybody’s Kids”—that chart a path for protecting kids from targeting by the tech, toy, and entertainment industries that treat them as lucrative bundles of data and as mini-consumers ripe for exploitation, rather than as the children they need to be.
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Who’s Raising the Kids? Audiobook Narrator
Susan Linn is the narrator of Who’s Raising the Kids? audiobook that was written by Susan Linn
Susan Linn is a psychologist, awardwinning ventriloquist, and a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of media and commercial marketing on children. She was the founding director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (now called Fairplay) and is currently research associate at Boston Children’s Hospital and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. The author of Consuming Kids and The Case for Make Believe (both published by the New Press), she lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Who’s Raising the Kids? Full Details
| Narrator | Susan Linn |
| Length | 11 hours 7 minutes |
| Author | Susan Linn |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9798212227131 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Who’s Raising the Kids? is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: big business, big tech, child care, children, education, raising children, Social Science, Children's Studies, Family & Relationships, Parenting, General, Technology & Engineering, Social Aspects The BISAC Subject Code is Children's Studies, Social Science
Additional info
The publisher of the Who’s Raising the Kids? is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9798212227131.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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