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Daniel Thomas Cook (BS, University of
Illinois; MA, Annenberg School of Communications, University
of Pennsylvania; PhD in Sociology, University of Chicago)
joined the Rutgers-Camden Department of Childhood Studies
in September 2007. Dr.
Cook studies youth and childhood and commercial life from
a cultural-interpretive perspective.
>>>full CV 
Dr.
Dan Cook teaches the graduate Proseminar in Childhood
Studies, Interpretive Research Methods, Introduction
to Childhood Studies and Children in Consumer/Media Culture.
Dr. Cook’s research focuses on the rise of children as consumers in the United States, presently and historically. In particular, he explores the various ways in which tensions between “the child” and “the market” play themselves out in various sites of children’s consumer culture, such as advertising, food, rituals, clothing and media. He is the author of The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer (2004, Duke University Press) and an Editor of Childhood, A Journal of Global Child Research http://chd.sagepub.com/. Along with John Wall, Cook is editor of Children and Armed Conflict (2011, Palgrave Macmillan) http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=413746 , and is sole editor of Symbolic Childhood (2002, Peter Lang) and The Lived Experiences of Public Consumption (2008, Palgrave Macmillan). He is author of numerous articles and chapters on children in American culture.
Daniel
Cook is founder of The
Consumer Studies Research Network (CSRN),
a scholarly network, associated with the American Sociological
Association. CSRN was created to exchange information
and to bring to the fore the depths to which commodities
and a market logic have come to pervade virtually all
forms of social life and social interaction. For information,
please email Dan
Cook.
>>> check
out the new CSRN website
Dr.
Cook was interviewed for "Marketplace,"
(FOX
29 TV, Philadelphia, Dec 11, 2007) about
the role of targeted marketing to kids, ages 9-14, called "tween."
>>> watch
the show online
Dr.
Cook's research on "princess culture" was
highlighted in Rutgers
Focus (2/6/08).
The article points to troubling
aspects of merchandizing for children, especially girls.
>>> read
the article
Books
Journal
Articles (refereed)
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2008 |
“Fashion
for Whom? Display, Ambiguity and the
Performing Child.” Invited Keynote
Speaker for the Pasold Conference, “ Clothing
Childhood, Fashioning Society: Children's
Clothing in Britain in the Twentieth Century.” The
Foundling Museum (January), London UK. |
2006 |
"The
Missing Child in Consumption Theory.” Invited
Keynote speaker, Second Biannual Conference
on Child and Teen Consumption 2006, Copenhagen
Business School, (April), Copenhagen, Denmark. |
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Editorial |
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Founding Editorial Board Member, Oxford Bibliographies Online: Childhood Studies. Oxford University Press. |
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Editor, Childhood:
A Global Journal of Child Research,
2008-present. |
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