Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles
Stephen Kline
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Description for Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles
Paperback. "This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the globesity pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought childrens food marketing to the centre of the policy debates about consumer lifestyles"-- Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSR; JHB; JHBK; JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 349.
This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought children's food marketing to the centre of the policy debates about consumer lifestyles.
This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought children's food marketing to the centre of the policy debates about consumer lifestyles.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Series
Consumption and Public Life
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349359202
SKU
V9781349359202
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Stephen Kline
STEPHEN KLINE is Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada and Director of the Media Analysis Laboratory. He has written or co-authored articles and books including Social Communication in Advertising, Out of the Garden, Digital Play, and Researching Audiences. His teaching and research ranges widely through the fields of media analysis and audience research including media education, advertising and ... Read more
Reviews for Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles
'Stephen Kline's study of the politics of risk discourse and the globesity 'epidemic' takes us beyond the tired reliance on moral panics and sanctimonious finger waving by demonstrating how a thoughtful, deft analysis of social problems can open up possibilities of new approaches and ways of seeing children's consumer empowerment.' - Daniel Thomas Cook, Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, ... Read more