I'm not sure if you've noticed the amount of exposure there is to all types of demographics when you walk into your local market, driving down the road, or even scrolling your "feed" on the phone. Even if you're aware, do you actually care? Why?
Major contributions to the rise of media are the advancements of technology and the world of advertisements and brand recognition. You can't go into your local Walmart or Target without noticing the large amount of brands that some you might even recognize from your childhood, that's because the world we live in is revolved around our dependency to be a consumer of entertainment and goods/services.
Children have it potentially the worse out of any groups because they simply just don't know any better, still in development all they know is consumer culture and their favorite brands just because that's all they've ever had. Take a look at what the digital world does to kids in how much media they consume, leading to a series of mental health risks of anxiety and stress, that is also the case in older groups. Surrounded by media is making kids grow up too fast, maturing at a rate that is simply unreal by what they perceive of adults portraying children/teens in film and TV. Not to mention that body image, and sexuality are being questioned as well with an ever-growing amount of LGBT child based series coming out in a media giant Disney.
What can a child do to protect themselves against corporations shaping their childhoods into stress induced lifestyles and physically underperformed activities by keeping them behind a screen? The answer is nothing, they hold no power and even if the parents had any real power, they lose to the corporate giant
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