Tag: exploiting children

Week 7

by sandhini on February 18, 2016 12:51 am

I found the article on the cool-math games website extremely fascinating. It reminded me of Luminosity which was recently sued for millions of dollars for claiming to make games that improve your ‘brainpower’ when in actuality they did nothing. Cool-math games also seems to have an empty claim like this and what is even worse… Read more

DQC week 7 - neopets incentives

by thuygon on February 17, 2016 4:16 pm

Grimes & Shade, 2005- It doesn’t surprise me that Neopets is built on immersive advertising. Although children are more vulnerable to being exploited by commercial interests, this is not limited to the online media world. Product placement surrounds them in all aspects of their lives- everything around them at home, at school, through interactions with… Read more