Overview
- Explores the historical context of discussions concerning parenting, popular culture and technology in the twentieth and twenty-first century
- Demonstrates the continuity in behaviour of young people over time, as well as the responses to it
- Examines social anxieties about new media since the 1920s, including radio, television, video games and the internet
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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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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Parents, Media and Panic through the Years
Book Subtitle: Kids Those Days
Authors: Karen Leick
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98319-6
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98318-9Published: 10 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98319-6Published: 27 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 134
Topics: Modern History, Cultural History, Social History, Youth Culture