Commercialization

To begin with, the documentary film, Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood talks about “research that indicated that children eight and under did not understand the persuasive intent of advertising.” **Since *youths ages eight and under are the majority of what people usually consider as “children”, most…

Graham, you are notoriously and viscerally opposed to coal. And in this case, it is clearly causing you to miss something important. So let's go over the point dispassionately, so that can have a chance to understand why some may be reacting to "foreign interests" involving themselves in trying to prevent commercialisation of Australian Coal. First, please let's dispense with the attempts to make it appear that interfering with Australian commercial interests in coal is going to have any effect…

how he dislikes his IPad cover because it is not his favorite color or how he has a tablet but not a cell phone. Kids have become consumerist, dependent of the products sold by the media. This is shown in the documentary “Consuming Kids: The commercialization of kids” (2001) produced by The Media Education Foundation. The film focuses on “the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation”, demonstrating this way how media has been using specific techniques to attract one of the…

Nowadays, the commercialization of sports is becoming increasingly commonplace since every sport club would like to generate income to support their club. The commercialization of sports is that aspect of the sports enterprise that involves the sale, display, or use of sport or some aspect of sport so as to produce income. Significant changes have taken place in sport in terms of increases in revenues. (Hassan and Hamil, 2010) Figure 1: Expenses Breakdown from 2008 to 2014 In overall, the…

Documentary, Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood, made in 2008, places needed light on the marketing practices of corporations used to make lifelong consumers. The director of this documentary spotlights the advertising practices done by companies to sell products to children, no matter how deceptive and manipulative. More specifically, the director draws attention to the negative repercussions caused by advertisements. Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood…

Commercialization and marketing have shown to play an important role in the mass media and companies. First of all, chapter seven of Media in Society discusses how economics has connections with the mass media and businesses through various approaches. Subsequently, commercialization has affected the release of new products with product placement and advertising, and marketing has also influenced children and the younger generation. Video games also have shown to be an excellent source of…

game with persons they never saw before and everybody seems good-natured and happy.” Some reporters wrote their articles as sales pitches to encourage readers to see the game. Washington and Karen argued that there were fans who disliked the commercialization of sports in newspapers. They felt it lessened sports and turned it into a commodity. Those people resented media involvement, most fans however, became more interested in sports due to their media attention, so much so that it turned into…

As many may know consumerism is a leading role in the American economy now and many people are asking when these acts will be stop? The movie, Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood illustrate the marketing industry push towards children and the future childhood and consumerism. I realized how unaware I am when it comes to the marketing industry and how much children are being dissected by advertisers and marketers. After watching this documentary, I feel as I was being used by…

emerged in the midst of scant material, dwindling income, and education started to shift and transition around the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Due to an up rise of commercialization, this transition had become referred to as a “slow death” for hip-hop. Throughout chapters 6-8 in Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop the commercialization of hip-hop is explored, where hip-hop is a form of art but that which now is being depleted and replaced with making money. While early hip-hop focused on…

This section deals with results of truncated regression model estimating the determinants of intensity of teff commercialization that was measured in the ratio of teff sold to teff produced expressed as percentage. Here all farm households who were participated in teff market as sellers are considered since the objective was to identify what factors determine a household to sell more or less proportion of their teff product. The model was statistically significant at 1% level indicating the…