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

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

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

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

by Karen Leick

Hardcover(1st ed. 2019)

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319983189
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 08/27/2018
Edition description: 1st ed. 2019
Pages: 134
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Karen Leick is Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She is the author ofGertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity (2009), and co-editor of Modernism on File: Writers, Artists and the FBI, 1920-1950 (Palgrave, 2008). She has also published many articles about the reception of modernism.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Movies and Radio.- Chapter Three: Comic Books.- Chapter Four: Television.- Chapter Five: Video Games.- Chapter Six: The Internet, Screens and Smartphones.- Index
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