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Parents, Media and Panic through the Years: Kids Those Days

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Pivot
Year
2019
ISBN
978-3-319-98318-9;978-3-319-98319-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1316681 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
VII, 134\137
Time added
2019-01-12 07:57:07

Description

This book analyses articles that appeared in popular periodicals from the 1920s to the present, each revealing the panic that parents and adults have expressed about media including radio, television, video games and the Internet for the last century. Karen Leick argues that parents have continuously shown an intense anxiety about new media, while expressing a romanticized nostalgia for their own youth. Recurring tropes describe concerns about each "addictive" new media: children do not play outside anymore, lack imagination, and may imitate violent or other inappropriate content that they encounter. Front Matter ....Pages i-vii Introduction: Childhood and Nostalgia (Karen Leick)....Pages 1-12 Movies and Radio (Karen Leick)....Pages 13-28 Comics (Karen Leick)....Pages 29-39 Television (Karen Leick)....Pages 41-65 Video Games (Karen Leick)....Pages 67-93 The Internet, Social Media and Smartphones (Karen Leick)....Pages 95-128 Back Matter ....Pages 129-134

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