Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontrunners or Copycats?
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction Frontrunners or Copycats?
  • 1 Understanding and Theorizing Modern Childhood in Denmark: Tendencies and Challenges
  • Children and the welfare state: From private to shared responsibility
  • Children as political subjects
  • The 'schoolification' of children
  • Institutionalized individualization and individualized institutionalization
  • New 'ideals of normality'
  • The competent child as compulsive idea
  • Persisting ambiguities in modern childhood
  • References
  • 2 Children as Innovators and Opinion Leaders.
  • Background
  • The Theory of Diffusion of Innovations
  • Social influence
  • Innovators and opinion leaders
  • Opinion leadership and innovators among children
  • Overlap among innovators
  • Overlap among opinion leadership
  • From where do children get information about new products?
  • Conclusion and further research questions
  • References
  • 3 Children, TV Advertising and the Law
  • Internal and External Perspectives
  • The problem
  • The internal and external perspective of the law
  • The applicable Swedish law concerning children and TV advertising.
  • An external view of the relevant legislation
  • the power of children to act
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 4 Young People and Consumption: Commonalities and Differences in the Construction of Identities
  • Consumption and young people's identities
  • Reasons for buying particular things
  • Consumption and transactions between children and parents
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 5 Children and Promotion: The Role of Advertising and Marketing in Innovation
  • Advertising to children and innovation
  • Changing media
  • In summary
  • Advertising in schools
  • Dental health/diet/obesity
  • What's on?
  • Understanding intent
  • Effects and influence
  • Types of advertising
  • Junk food!
  • Celebrity endorsement
  • Approaching the subject
  • References
  • 6 Children's and Adolescents' Use of the Internet
  • with Focus on Tweens
  • What is the Internet?
  • International research
  • Tweens
  • What is the definition of 'tweens'?
  • Tweens' use of the Internet
  • Concerns about the Internet
  • Tweens
  • between media and consumption
  • References
  • 7 The Invention of the Child Consumer: What is at Stake for Marketing Practice and Research?
  • Introduction: The child as a target for marketing management.
  • Part I
  • The progressive connection of children with consumption
  • Part II
  • Children's consumerism: The new frontier of managerial practice?
  • Conclusion: Towards a transformational agenda for marketing management and research
  • References
  • 8 Children as Change Agents in the Pursuit of the Competencies of theFuture
  • Prelude
  • Background and purpose
  • Why this interest from a toy company?
  • Results from LEGO Research among children
  • Freedom, responsibility and performance
  • Postlude
  • References.