Additional Resources

Chapter 6 – It All Ads Up: Marketing's Powerful Influence on Teenagers

God & My Stuff - Why are we rarely satisfied with what we have? by LaTonya Taylor for Campus Life magazine

Smells like teen...body spray! - Companies are using sexually charged imagery and marketing to sell body spray to young men

More Than One Message - Teens are wearing shirts loaded with double meanings

Video Games: The next big ad medium - Marketers are using video games to sell products to our children and teens

Teens and Smoking - A short report on the pervasiveness of cigarette advertising

Marketing Madness - How are marketers targeting our kids, and how do we respond?

Commodified Kids - more on marketing to kids and how we can help our kids see through the lies of advertising

Bulls Eye Babies and Targeted Teens - how teens process marketing messages

Abercrombie & Fitch - Selling More than Clothes - The A&F catalog is sending some disturbing messages to our kids about body image and sexuality

E-llowances - teens, allowances, and the internet.

Channel One: Turn it On...or Turn it Off? - An exploration of the controversial in-classroom news and entertainment service

Condom Ad Concerns - when condom ads are being aimed at teens

M&Ms Green Makeover - what an M&M marketing campaign tells our kids about sex

The Lie of Christmas - The true meaning of Christmas, and the problem with "stuff"

Rich and getting Richer - teens have an increasing amount of spending money