It's Not The Media The Truth About Pop

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.

Karen Sternheimer teaches in the sociology department at the University of Southern California.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? The flawed logic of media phobia, past and present	p. 1
Why Americans Choose to Fear Media: It's not the media: What really changed childhood	p. 21
Why Americans Choose to Fear Youth: The politics of youth-bashing	p. 41
Fear of Media Violence: Four fallacies of media-violence effects	p. 61
Fear of Cartoons: Role models for bad behavior?	p. 85
Fear of Video Games: The blamed games	p. 109
Fear of Music: Musical murder and misogyny?	p. 125
Fear of Advertising and the Young Consumer: How much is that psyche in the window?	p. 147
Fear of Sex: Do the media make them do it?	p. 169
Fear of the Internet: Information regulation	p. 193
Conclusion: Rethinking Fears of Media and Children: Media: A sheep in wolf's clothing	p. 207
Notes	p. 221
Selected Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 257
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It's Not The Media The Truth About Pop Culture's Influence On Children

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