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What are the impacts of consumption and consumerism in children? How does this relate to media?
Emily Venga
The media is a big influence on how children interact with each other and their elders, we can see that this influences the way children act, think and feel. This can make people feel inferior or can subsequently influence the way 
The media has also prove to be helpful towards children, to educate them and to help them deal with specific issues in the picture below  you can see this is a very valuable asset however it also can be harmful in many ways.

This Information can from an article on techchrunch 
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/06/an-anti-abuse-ad-with-a-secret-message-only-children-can-see/

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An Anti-Abuse Ad With A Secret Message Only Children Can SeePosted May 6, 2013 by Gregory Ferenstein 

In order to discreetly reach abused children, one aid organization designed a clever billboard that only displays a hotline  for people shorter than 4’5″. The secret is a precisely serrated surface, a lenticular lens , that reflects light differently to those looking from above and below a specified height. Shorter people (children) see the following message on a street sign: “If somebody hurts you, phone us and we’ll help you,” along with a confidential number to call the Spanish organization, Aid to Children and Adolescents. lenticular lens 

Adults see, “Sometimes, child abuse is only visible to the child suffering it.” The ad is especially designed for children who may be traveling with their abuser.
In the future, we could imagine more advanced warning systems. IBM is reportedly developing ads that remotely targets a user’s individual interests, based on radio frequency-enabled cards that they expect consumers will carry with them. Similarly, malls can now track users’ cell phone signal as they travel from store to store for marketing data. It’s not hard to imagine a billboard beaming abuse-notification messages to a child’s cell phone, or, more discretely, to a technology like Google Glass.

For an explanation of the ad, watch the video above.
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