Defending Children’s Rights as Media Consumers
Defending children’s rights as media consumers Children and Media Australia (CMA) is always active in advocating for a healthy screen environment for children, and for their rights as media consumers. Here’s some of the issues we’ve tackled in this, and recent, years:...
Children and Advertising: The need for evidence-based regulation
Professor Elizabeth Handsley, President, CMA Children and advertising: the need for evidence-based regulation Advertising has been one of the recurring issues for CMA over the twenty-plus years that I’ve been working with the organisation. Even back before I started,...
Big Tech, Big Business and the Lives of Children
Big Tech, Big Business and the Lives of Children by Susan Linn, Ed.D. The harms of society affording corporations unfettered access to children are well-documented. Targeting kids with advertising and marketing has long been linked to a host of problems including...
UK: Advertising rules flouted by Chinese vaping giant
UK: Advertising rules flouted by Chinese vaping giantThe Guardian reports “A leading e-cigarette brand is flouting rulesto promote its products to young people in Britain, an Observer investigation has found, as experts warn that brightly coloured, sweet-...
Spiderman: No Way Home
The latest film in the Spider-Man series is due for world-wide release on December 16/17. As we’ve come to expect, the film hasn’t yet been classified in Australia nor rated in the US or UK. But the publicity has been out for months, with anticipation mounting. As...
UK: Advertising rules flouted by Chinese vaping giant
UK: Advertising rules flouted by Chinese vaping giantThe Guardian reports “A leading e-cigarette brand is flouting rulesto promote its products to young people in Britain, an Observer investigation has found, as experts warn that brightly coloured, sweet-...