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It's Not the Media: The Truth About Pop Culture's Influence on Children » (1st Edition)
Authors: Karen Sternheimer
ISBN-13: 9780813341385, ISBN-10: 0813341388
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Karen Sternheimer
Karen Sternheimer teaches in the sociology department at the University of Southern California. Her commentary has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and other major newspapers. She also serves as a research consultant for the Center for Media Literacy. She lives in Los Angeles.
Book Synopsis
Challenges the conventional wisdom that media creates a toxic environment for America's youth, diverting us from the real origins of problems affecting children today
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? The flawed logic of media phobia, past and present | 1 | |
| 1 | Why Americans Choose to Fear Media: It's not the media: What really changed childhood | 21 |
| 2 | Why Americans Choose to Fear Youth: The politics of youth-bashing | 41 |
| 3 | Fear of Media Violence: Four fallacies of media-violence effects | 61 |
| 4 | Fear of Cartoons: Role models for bad behavior? | 85 |
| 5 | Fear of Video Games: The blamed games | 109 |
| 6 | Fear of Music: Musical murder and misogyny? | 125 |
| 7 | Fear of Advertising and the Young Consumer: How much is that psyche in the window? | 147 |
| 8 | Fear of Sex: Do the media make them do it? | 169 |
| 9 | Fear of the Internet: Information regulation | 193 |
| Conclusion: Rethinking Fears of Media and Children: Media: A sheep in wolf's clothing | 207 | |
| Notes | 221 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 251 | |
| Index | 257 |
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