Hey Kidz! Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People

by Anne Elizabeth Moore

Paperback, 2004

Status

Available

Call number

302.23

Collection

Publication

Soft Skull Press/Red Rattle Books (2004), 120 pages

Description

Hey Kidz! provides a solid grounding in the current media strategies that target youth as the most sought-after demographic target, and leads readers to the understanding that advertising drives most of everything they experience. The author goes on to explain how youth can tap into an unrealized power through creating their own messaging content and use it to change the world. With an emphasis on community-building, teamwork, historical research, and self-expression, this empowering book is a primer on media activism for young people, their teachers, parents, youth organization leaders, librarians, and activists. It serves as a guide for youth who have a problem with the way the world works but don't yet know how to articulate their demands or how to achieve their goals for world change.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member roniweb
Every kid should have to read this book. This book might be too radical for most parents, but if you think of it as an inoculation for your child(ren) against the mega media machines they have to deal with on a daily basis, hopefully you will agree with me. That is unless you work for the mega
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Original language

English

Physical description

120 p.; 6.46 inches

ISBN

1932360352 / 9781932360356
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