Branded: The Buying And Selling Of TeenagersBasic Books, 2004 M02 19 - 247 pages Publisher's description: In Branded, Alissa Quart takes us to the dark side of marketing to teens, showing readers a disturbingly fast-paced world in which adults shamelessly insinuate themselves into "friendships" with young people in order to monitor what they wear, eat, listen to, and buy. We travel to a conference on advertising to teenagers and witness the breathless and insensitive pronouncements of lecturers there. We meet the unofficial teen "sales force" for a new girls' perfume (the unpaid daughters of the company's saleswomen) and observe the attempts of mega-corporations to purchase the time and space for product-placement in schools. We witness the aggressive and potentially emotionally damaging ways in which adults seek to control vulnerable young minds and wallets. But we also witness the bravery of isolated and increasingly Internet-linked kids who attempt to turn the tables on the cocksure corporations that so cynically strive to manipulate them. Eye-opening and urgent, Branded exposes and condemns a segment of American business whose high-paid job it is to reduce teens to their lowest common denominator, to systematically sap youth of individuality and creativity. Engaging and thought provoking, Branded ensures that consumers will never look at the American way of doing business in the same way again. |
Contents
Branded | 3 |
From the Mall to the Fall The Teen Consultants | 17 |
PeerToPeer Marketing | 37 |
The Golden Marbles Inside a Marketing Conference | 47 |
The Great Tween Marketing Machine | 63 |
Cinema of the InCrowd | 77 |
More Than a Video Game | 97 |
Body Branding Cosmetic Surgery | 113 |
XLarge and XSmall | 129 |
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