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Wikipedia Article Examination
The wiki article entitled Facebook like button has multiple problems. The last time it was updated was in May 2017. Facebook regularly changes and adapts their social media site, so this outdated wiki article doesn't keep up with the latest additions and alterations for the Facebook like button. Facebook has changed and this article seems to skip over many changes, and is not currently the most up to date resource. The article mentions the new emotion/reaction options in addition to liking a post or comment, but shows no pictures or examples of these reactions.

The opening paragraphs are not categorized under anything on the side bar, and in my opinion, there is too much relevant information all mixed up in two, long, disorganized paragraphs. This made it distracting and difficult to comprehend quickly.

I think that the article focus is unequal in weight. It focuses heavily on critics following the Facebook like button, but doesn't describe it's origin, popularity, and impact on the Facebook site, it's advertisements, etc. This leads me to feel like the article is a little biased against the new like button.

The source links within the article all work, however some seem a little bit irrelevant to the topic and could be left out entirely. More positively, almost all facts are backed up with references. The legitimacy of these references is questionable since most are small, news articles found online and not based on published journals or anything necessarily fact checkable and undoubtedly reliable.

The Talk page of the article speaks mostly about new references and sources that have been added and would like to be fact checked. It also poses the question of how the like button impacts Facebook financially, and since this is such a big reason there are like buttons, why that information is left out of the article.

The article is a part of many WikiProjects like WikiProject Internet, WikiProject Internet culture, WikiProject Media, WikiProject Marketing and Advertising, WikiProject Websites/Computing. The article is rated Start-class, and generally of mid-importance.

Possible Topics
Celebrity culture This article has a lot of issues. As the page says, it is in need of citations, and relevant, reliable resources. I also think that the structure and organization of the page could be improved and elaborated on. There are also gaps in content and many different aspects of Celebrity Culture that aren't touched on.

CNN effect First of all I think that this article is in need of reorganization and could benefit from new subheadings within the article. There also isn't much flow between the subheadings. The information spread throughout the beginning of the article could be redistributed differently.

Advertising to children This article is a little bit of a mess and is too wordy and extended in many places. This is especially apparent in the first opening section of the article that is drawn out and could be reorganized to different ares of the bigger article. I also think I could find more citations and add more information to the article as it is very apparent and ever changing, with lots of studies going on in this field nowadays.

Final Wikipedia Topic
Advertising to children

I chose this article because it is very disorganized and is too wordy and drawn out in many places. This is especially apparent in the first opening section of the article that is drawn out and could be reorganized to different ares of the bigger article. So I will reorganize and rearrange much of the information to make it more readable. The last edit and addition to the article was in 2016, and as Advertising, especially geared towards children, is very apparent and ever changing, lots of studies and publications aregoing on in this field nowadays. So, I have found more information and sources to add to the article.

Some possible sources I might use:

Rozendaal, E., Opree, S. J., & Buijzen, M. (2016). Development and Validation of a Survey Instrument to Measure Children's Advertising Literacy. Media Psychology, 19(1), 72-100. doi:10.1080/15213269.2014.885843

Karel, T., Lhotáková, M., & Olšanová, K. (2016). Regulate or Educate? Parental Perception of Food Advertising Targeting Children, its Regulation and Food Industry Self-Regulation in the Czech Republic. European Food & Feed Law Review, 11(2), 94-106.

Llovet Rodríguez, C., Díaz-Bustamante Ventisca, M., & Patiño Alves, B. (2016). THE SEXUALIZATION OF CHILDREN THROUGH ADVERTISING, FASHION BRANDS AND MEDIA. Revista Prisma Social, 156-189.

GRAD, I. (2015). Ethical Considerations on Advertising to Children. Postmodern Openings / Deschideri Postmoderne, 6(2), 43-57. doi:10.18662/po/2015.0602.04

Lapierre, M. A., Fleming-Milici, F., Rozendaal, E., McAlister, A. R., & Castonguay, J. (2017). The Effect of Advertising on Children and Adolescents. Pediatrics, 140S152-S156. doi:10.1542/peds.2016-1758V

Article First Draft
'''Changes will be seen in bold. Overall, I changed a lot of the formatting and rearranged some sections. I separated many long paragraphs in the first section through the addition of a subhead entitled History of Advertising to Children. Within the Ethical Violations Section I also edited and separated many of the long paragraphs, and changed and added some sentences to each of those parts. I also added at the end of the section another idea that falls within that category and provided a citation for it as well. I have more information and other citations that I could use, but didn't want to go into too much detail if it was seen as irrelevant within this section.'''

Advertising to children is the act of marketing or [advertising] products or services to children as defined by national legislation and advertising standards. It is often the subject of debate, relating to the alleged influence on children’s consumption. Laws concerning such advertisements have largely evolved in recent years such as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In most countries, advertising for children is framed by a mix of legislation and advertising self-regulation.

History of Advertising to Children In the nineteenth century, the compulsory education of children was established. Consequently, children began to be targeted by an increasing number of publications. Commercial appeals to children, however, did not become commonplace until widespread adoption of television grew exponentially with the invention of cable television.[1] Also, comic books started appearing around this period but were not initially targeted to children because they were largely uneducated. However, it was still apparent that the majority of readers were children nonetheless. Publishers realized the importance of marketing comic books to teenagers in order to raise their potential sales. This resulted in the rise of comic book promotion to the youth market in the 19th century. Following that, radio and then television,broadcast media, grew.


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Spot Advertising

For advertisers, these tools expanded the ability of communicating to consumers effectively through advanced visual and oral medium.[2] It is described in (Blades, et al., 2014)[3] that, during the 19th century, a broadcasting system was utilised effectively to enhance advertisements within The United States of America. Spot advertising, a novel form of promotion in this era, came to be known as a prodigious way of advertising. Spot advertising is television advertising, which appears shortly between programmes.[2] However, spot advertising was not the only commercial promotion that came to be popular. Sponsorship arrangements also began to appear. Advertisers linked their name with certain programmes and supported some of the production cost.[4] American advertisers sponsored TV programmes or films in order to promote their products through broadcast media. A significant opportunity arose for advertisers and marketers with increased numbers of internet users due to the invention of the household computer in the early 1990`s. This movement expanded more ways of advertising and intensified the relationship between marketers and consumer. Concern grew that children had a significant disadvantage in this secretive form of marketing. This is because advertising could easily manipulate children as they are less able to comprehend the implicit objective of advertisers.[3]


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Advertising is the structured and composed non-personal communication of information, usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature, about products by identified sponsors through various media.[50] In modern society today, ads already penetrate into every corner of people's lives. It affects people's values, social outlook, and outlook on life, social relations and cultural psychology. Comprehensive and universal attributes of the television advertising reach determines it is an important source that heavily influences children's morality. Marketers have many approaches to attract consumers by using different media, such as television, network and radio. Many consumers are attracted by those exaggerated claims advertising; especially children who do not possess the mature mentality as adults, allowing them to be more easily manipulated through persuasive advertisements.

According to some researchers, there are some negative impacts such as effects on children’s mental and physical health.It can be argued that advertising creates some immoral logic that his difficult to shelter children from seeing, and may be harmful for children to grow up healthy. With the start of the "information era", newspapers, magazines and radio advertising and other media in people's lives began to play an important role; as did the ethical concern of advertisements as bad impacts on children followed the "information era". A considerable part of children's lives are time spent watching television, movies, and in turn television ads will change their way of life, behavior, values, consumption view, life goals, etc.

Many advertisements bring ethics into question when they market themselves irresponsibly by deeming and insinuating special effects of their product. This is seen through the acquisition of specific knowledge or high test scores on their "magic" products, misleading the children who lack enough judgment to see the advertisement is merely using persuasive tactics. These kinds of ads tend to encourage the opportunistic mentality among children and the idea that they will "reap without sowing". This brings morality and the ethical duties advertisers have in childhood educational development.

A lot of misleading ideas from TV ads distort morality for children. For instance, advertising buying a gift for a significant other to show how closet relationship is, leading children to think that the nature of relationships are based solely on tangible gifts or items. This profoundly affects the healthy mental growth of children. Many children may think that "purchases = identity". This concept could cause the child judge a person by their status level and the things a person owns. In addition, this idea of judgment and the value it holds has not yet fully developed in children, often causing the "expensive is better" mindset to rule many of their judgments. This type of advertising can be argued as unethical as it is suggesting a way of life, putting materialistic values at the forefront of relationships, and shaping the way in which children believe the world may be once they are older; deceiving them.

Another form of misleading media is seen in food advertisements. Most junk food companies create very attractive advertising, which leads to children's deep fascinations with these unhealthy foods, and even in developing their unhealthy eating habits. American Psychological Association shows: “Research has found strong correlation between growing in advertising for unhealthy foods and rates of childhood obesity." Children are in the physiological developmental period, and they should have healthy habits and tendencies in their daily lives. However, television commercials and advertisements all around children mostly introduce high fat and high salt food, such as processed, unhealthy foods. False advertising in the food industry is very apparent; some say junk food is “nourishing and healthy food”, which we now accept as an inaccuracy and misleading. Thus, children’s behavior in choosing foods and their opinions on different food brands are influenced heavily by TV advertising with animated characters, bright colors, endorsers, and manipulative slogans.

Another aspect of advertising that is argued as unethical in relation to marketing towards children is the overarching sexualization and maturation of children. As children, and specifically young girls view advertisements on social media sites, magazines, television, and in campaigns that promote the idea of "perfection" among models/lifestyles with unhealthy habits, the impending role of advertisers and marketers is becoming more apparent. This is bringing the debate about the regulation of advertisements and their sexualization of children specifically through fashion branding into discussions internationally. 

Peer Review
I liked the way you assessed how everything was spoken and rephrased it to help it make more sense. Adding a heading to further break up the article is a good idea and I think it will help the article stay on topic.

I enjoyed your specific take on the food aspect of advertising, as thats where so much false advertising is being led to. Specifically, when you mentioned "this type of advertising can be argued as unethical as it is suggesting a way of life, putting materialistic blues at the forefront of relationships, and shaping the way in which children believe the world may be once they are older; deceiving them". I liked this take on false information being spread to children, who are relatively gullible and will easily believe information given to them. On the other hand, I also think that it's worth it to mention that there are a lot of ads barring advertising to be honest, even though it is not.

When you discuss the unethical behavior around the overarching sexualization of children, I think that it should be under a different tab and separated, as it in a huge change of tone from the previous topic. All of this pertains to advertising, but all are different methods. I also think you could possibly expand a bit on this specific aspect because there is so much you can talk about! Just make sure you separate both topics!

Overall a great job! Yay!!

Cgelpieryn (talk) 20:09, 6 March 2018 (UTC).