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 writers and researchers, such as Henry Giroux, Mike Males, and Barbara Kingsolver, propose that the prevailing modern fear of adolescents is fueled by the corporate control of mass media and its connections to various political and economic powers.