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Peer reviewedMontgomery, Kathryn C. – Future of Children, 2000
Describes technological, demographic, and market forces shaping the new digital media culture and the various Web sites being created for children and teens, explaining how heavily-promoted commercial sites overshadow educational sites. Discusses efforts to create safe Internet zones for children. Recommends actions to promote development of a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advertising, Children, Consumer Protection
Download full textPrice, John L.; Mann, George – 1989
This paper points out that one of the most appropriate and needed areas in which students should engage in critical thinking is in their everyday responses to messages aimed at them in attempts to persuade and convince them to buy or believe something. Ten commonly used tactics noted in the media are described. Examples are given of slanted or…
Descriptors: Advertising, Bias, Consumer Protection, Critical Thinking
Jose, Victor – 1978
This is one of several papers presented at a Federal Trade Commission Symposium on Media Concentration. It describes one journalist's experience owning a free newspaper in the Richmond, Indiana, area and meeting competition when the local daily newspaper was purchased by a chain. It is suggested that methods of curtailing print competition in the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Competition, Consumer Protection, Economic Change
Peer reviewedMackey, Maureen – Change, 1980
As higher education turns from a seller's to a buyer's market, colleges are using marketing strategy as an aid for student recruitment. Unethical and ethical promotion and recruiting practices, recruiting abuses (selling of immigration papers, etc.), legal contractual responsibilities, ethical decay, and consumer rights of students are discussed.…
Descriptors: Advertising, College Admission, Consumer Protection, Court Litigation
Kerns, H. Dan – 1993
The state of the motion picture industry is reviewed, focusing on needed change in the practice of product placement. The study of the placements of advertising in films should be of interest to the student of visual literacy. Product placers are using films to advertise their products to entertainment seekers. The viewer, often a child, may not…
Descriptors: Advertising, Auteurism, Consumer Education, Consumer Protection
Schnittgrund, Karen P., Ed. – 1985
These proceedings contain presentations, discussants' remarks, roundtable discussions, and papers from poster sessions and panels. Selected titles of particular relevance to the field of education are: "Factors Affecting the Probability of Accepting a Retirement Incentive: Evidence to Support Retirement Planning Education" (Hogarth);…
Descriptors: Adults, Advertising, Conference Proceedings, Consumer Economics
Carter, Virginia L., Ed.; Garigan, Catherine S., Ed. – 1979
Student recruitment is explored in a compilation of articles originally published in "CASE Currents." Focus is on marketing, market research, student consumerism, advertising, publications, recruitment tools, and students and alumni. Included in the 46 papers are the following: "A Management Approach to the Buyer's Market" (William Ihlanfeldt);…
Descriptors: Advertising, Alumni, College Bound Students, College Students
Hampton, Vickie L., Ed. – 1987
The following education-related papers are among the 91 papers included in these proceedings: (1) "Recent Trends in the Historiography of Consumption" (Pope); (2) "Thinking Critically in the Teaching of Consumer Issues" (Copa, Schuler); (3) "Recent Research in Consumer Education Utilizing Innovative Methodologies" (Hall); (4) "Justice and Consumer…
Descriptors: Advertising, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Consumer Protection
American Council on Consumer Interests, Columbia, MO. – 1982
This document contains the proceedings of a conference on the themes of career competency, consumer education, and consumer research conducted in April 1982. The proceedings consist of 69 research reports (each with abstract) as well as a list of the conference participants, their affiliations, and addresses. The reports, which are indexed by…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Advertising, Career Choice, Career Development
