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Parents, Media and Panic through the Years

Kids Those Days

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Authors:
  1. Karen Leick

    1. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

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  • 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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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Childhood and Nostalgia

    • Karen Leick
    Pages 1-12

  3. Movies and Radio

    • Karen Leick
    Pages 13-28

  4. Comics

    • Karen Leick
    Pages 29-39

  5. Television

    • Karen Leick
    Pages 41-65

  6. Video Games

    • Karen Leick
    Pages 67-93

  7. The Internet, Social Media and Smartphones

    • Karen Leick
    Pages 95-128

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 129-134
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About this book

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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

    Karen Leick

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

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