Big tech trains kids to become consumers from … well, birth.
Child-targeted marketing is cringe-worthy at best and unethical at worst. It also undermines our children’s healthy development because it robs them of opportunities to play, imagine, and learn freely without manipulation.
Today I speak with Dr. Susan Linn about the ways in which technology exploits children (and what we can do about it at home).
Here’s a preview:
[3:30] Brand loyalty? How media corporations exploit our children for profit
[6:30] Societal implications associated with perpetually up-selling to kids
[11:30] The ways in which big tech manipulates children into bonding with their devices
[17:00] A good, hard look: Addressing our collective preoccupation with technology
[28:00] Thoughts on breaking an older child’s screen addiction
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