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My Child Is Not Your Target Market! Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D., author of Stranger in Your Living Room: How Media Hurt ChildrenWednesday, November 7, 2007 12:45 – 2:30 p.m., New Trier High School, Room C234, 7 Happ Road, Northfield 60093. Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D., educates parents on how to safeguard their family’s values in the face of harmful media influences. “Peter D.” exposes the manipulations used by media to shape consumer identity and behavior of children of all ages. Develop your critical thinking skills by learning how to analyze and evaluate media’s relentless marketing of premature sexuality, violence, negative body image, and tobacco and alcohol consumption. Take action against the pervasive, invasive commercial culture hungry for your money and your child’s future paycheck. Peter D.: www.medialiteracy.net. Flyer Map to location.
AN EVENING PRESENTATION FOR PARENTS AND TEENS What You Don’t Know WILL Hurt You Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D., author of Stranger in Your Living Room: How Media Hurt ChildrenWednesday, November 7, 2007, Wilmette Junior High School, 620 Locust Rd., Wilmette, 60091 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. A powerful evening presentation for parents AND their children, grades 6 through 12, by Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D., will deconstruct a series of advertisements by examining subliminal messages, misinformation, and the creation of the culture of “teen cool.” See how media companies manufacture juvenile or heroic “personalities” to sell alcohol and tobacco, and learn how to deepen your media savvy and skepticism to neutralize the wisecracking frogs, sardonic penguins and hyper-sexed pseudo-teens of Madison Avenue marketing departments. NOTE: The visual content of this lecture may not be suitable for students younger than 6th grade. Peter D.: www.medialiteracy.net. Flyer Map to location.
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