Don't Use Your Words!: Children's Emotions in a Networked World

How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resist this emotional management through cultural production.

Today, even young kids talk to each other across social media by referencing memes,songs, and movements, constructing a common vernacular that resists parental, educational, and media imperatives to name their feelings and thus control their bodies. Over the past two decades, children’s television programming has provided a therapeutic site for the processing of emotio...