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Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles

  • Stephen Kline
Book

Part of the Consumption and Public Life book series (CUCO)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Growing Up in the Risk Society

    1. Introduction: Growing Up in the Risk Society
      Stephen Kline
      Pages 1-21

  3. Bad News: Lifestyle Risk Agenda Setting

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 23-23
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    2. Framing the Body Politic: Advocacy Science and Setting the Risk Agenda
      Stephen Kline
      Pages 37-57
    3. Putting the Pan in the Pandemic
      Stephen Kline
      Pages 58-78

  4. The Policy Nexus: Assessing Children’s Vulnerability to the TV Diet

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 79-79
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    2. The TV Diet: Advertising as a Biased System of Risk Communication
      Stephen Kline
      Pages 86-114
    3. Risks of Exposure: The Influence of Food Advertising on Children’s Consumption
      Stephen Kline
      Pages 115-133
    4. The Disruptive Screen: Understanding the Multiple Lifestyle Risks Associated with Heavy TV Viewing
      Stephen Kline
      Pages 134-152

  5. Beyond Blame: Unpacking Media-Saturated Domesticity

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 153-153
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    2. Obesogenic Lifestyles in the Media-Saturated Household
      Stephen Kline
      Pages 158-170
    3. Panicked Parenting: Managing Children’s Lifestyle Choices in the Risk Society
      Stephen Kline
      Pages 171-193
    4. Consumer Empowerment in the Media-Saturated Family
      Stephen Kline
      Pages 194-217
    5. Conclusion
      Stephen Kline
      Pages 218-227
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 228-252
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About this book

Introduction

This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought children's food marketing to the centre of the policy debates about consumer lifestyles.

Keywords

Advertising children communication Framing marketing Moral society USA

Authors and affiliations

  • Stephen Kline
    • 1
  1. 1.Simon Fraser UniversityCanada

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