Week Eight

Tuesday

3. Consumer Culture and Citizenship (cont.)

3.2 Defining the Problem: Part Two---- The Challenge to Citizenship

• "Media, Youth and Civic Engagement," Kaiser Family Foundation, Fall 2004. See [http://www.kff.org/entmedia/7168.cfm]
• Bybee, Carl, Ashley Overbeck and Christine Quail, "Teaching Apathy: Kid's News, Consumer Culture and Citizenship," [http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~cbybee/teachingapathy]

Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole by Benjamin Barber

Part One: "The Birth of Consumers," (Chapters One and Two) pp. 3-81.

Thursday

Part Two: "The Eclipse of Citizens," pp. 81-166 (Chapters Three through Five).

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

• "The Dependence Effect," John Kenneth Galbraith, CSR, (pp. 20-26).
• "Images Without Bottom," Stuart Ewen, CSR, (pp.47-57).
• "Two Cheers for Materialism," James Twitchell, CSR, (pp. 281-290).
• "The ideological genesis of needs," Jean Baudrillard, CSR
• Saltman, “Educational Privatization and the Assault on Public Schools,” (pp. 1-33).
• "The Sexual Sell," Betty Friedan, CSR, (pp. 26-47)
• "The Cool Hunt," Malcolm Gladwell, CSR, (pp. 360-374).
• “PeaceKeeping Battle Stations and Smackdown!: Selling Kids on Violence,” Susan Linn, (pp. 105- 125).
• Videos: Tough Guise, Wrestling with Manhood, Game Over, What a Girl Wants.