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Author Sternheimer, Karen.

Title It's not the media : the truth about pop culture's influence on children / Karen Sternheimer.

Publication Info. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2003.

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 Moore Stacks  HQ799.2.M35 S84 2003    Available  ---
Description x, 272 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index.
Contents Who's afraid of the 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.
Subject Mass media and youth -- United States.
Mass media and youth.
United States.
Popular culture -- United States.
Popular culture.
Internet and children -- United States.
Internet and children.
Children -- United States -- Social conditions.
Children.
Social conditions.
Children and adults -- United States.
Children and adults.
Teenagers and adults -- United States.
Teenagers and adults.
Mass media and public opinion -- United States.
Mass media and public opinion.
Children.
Added Title Pop culture's influence on children
ISBN 0813341388 hardcover