Other authors and scholars, including Henry Giroux, Mike Males, and Barbara Kingsolver have suggested that the popular modern fear of youths stems from corporatisation of mass media and its complicity with a range of political and economic interests.
Several authors and researchers, such as Henry Giroux, Mike Males, and Barbara Kingsolver, suggest that the prevailing modern fear of adolescents stems from the corporate takeover of mass media and its alignment with various political and economic powers.