Variant title
Pop culture’s influence on children
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-256) and index.
Contents
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? ; The flawed logic of media phobia, past and present -- Why Americans choose to fear media ; It’s not the media: what really changed childhood -- Why Americans choose to fear youth ; The politics of youth-bashing -- Fear of media violence ; Four fallacies of media-violence effects -- Fear of cartoons ; Role models for bad behavior? -- Fear of video games ; The blamed games -- Fear of music ; Musical murder and misogyny -- Fear of advertising and the young consumer ; How much is that psyche in the window? -- Fear of sex ; Do the media make them do it? -- Fear of the Internet ; Information regulation -- Rethinking fears of media and children ; Media: a sheep in wolf’s clothing.
ISBN
0813341388 (hardcover)
Subject
Mass media and youth -- United States. Popular culture -- United States. Internet and children -- United States. Children -- United States -- Social conditions. Children and adults -- United States. Teenagers and adults -- United States. Mass media and public opinion -- United States.
