Kelley Library

Who's raising the kids?, big tech, big business, and the lives of children, Susan Linn

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Who's raising the kids?

bibliography

Susan Linn

big tech, big business, and the lives of children

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?ve 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.--, Provided by publisher

What children need and why corporations can't provide it -- Who wins the games tech plays? -- And the brand plays on -- Browse! Click! Buy! Repeat! -- How rewarding are rewards? -- The nagging problem of pester power -- Divisive devices -- Bias for sale -- Branded learning -- Big tech goes to school -- Is that hope? -- Resistance parenting: Suggestions for keeping big tech and big business at bay -- Making a difference for everybody's kids