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Marketing und Ethik-Marketing an Kindern im Zeitalter des mobilen Internet

  • Mobile internet and smartphones have experienced a strong growth in the past years. Teenagers and increasingly younger children consume the mobile internet via mobile end devices, especially smartphones. Such technical innovations are commonly accompanied by social changes that affect societal as well as individual behaviours. For this reason, the question of how mobile internet influences and changes children’s behaviour arises. Therefore, the topic being treated in this thesis is about “Marketing to children: Do smartphones change children’s behaviour? – An approach to children’s consumer behaviour and the ethical perspective of the economy.” The objective is to find out whether children’s behaviour is changed by mobile internet and smartphones and which marketing opportunities arise due to these changes as well as observing which marketing practices are conducted. Firstly, general consumer behaviour, its theories and tendencies as well as the consumer behaviour of children is studied. Following that, the examination of the ethical perspective of the economy including general ethics and theories are treated and marketing ethics as well as answers to ethical issues that arise in business are scrutinised. Basic facts of marketing aimed at children practiced by the media as well as the neurological perspective and ethics of marketing directly to children is investigated. To get more evidence of changes in children’s behaviour due to mobile internet and smartphones a practical experiment in the sports field is conducted to find out whether smartphones lead to a lack of concentration during training. As a result, the literature review confirms that mobile internet and smartphones lead to social changes and to changes in children’s behaviour such as variances in their communicative, consummative and social behaviour which present new opportunities for modern mobile marketing practices. The hypotheses of the experiment that smartphones lead to a lack of concentration could not be validated. Relating to the measurements, concentration under smartphone presence was higher than without it. From an ethical perspective it is critical to use (mobile) marketing opportunities for targeting children as their brains are still in development and they are not able to identify the intentions of marketing.

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Author:Jessica Welz
Advisor:Paul Taylor
Document Type:Bachelor Thesis
Language:German
Year of Completion:2015
Year of first Publication:2015
Release Date:2015/11/26
Tag:Kinder
Marketing; Mobile Services
Degree Program:IBW - Internationale Betriebswirtschaft
Functional area:Marketing