Parents, Media and Panic through the Years
Subtitle: Kids Those Days
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: Aug 27, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9783319983189
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.
Notes: Source title: Parents, Media and Panic through the Years: Kids Those Days