Avidly Reads Screen Time

Avidly Reads Screen Time - Avidly Reads

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What happens when screen time is all the time?
In the early 1990s, the phrase "screen time" emerged to scare parents about the dangers of too much TV for kids. Screen time was something to fret over, police, and judge in a low-grade moral panic. Now, "screen time" has become a metric not only for good parenting, but for our adult lives as well. There's even an app for it! In the streaming era-and with streaming made nearly ubiquitous during COVID-19-almost every aspect of our day is mediated by these bright surfaces. Whether it was ever the real villain in the first place, or merely a convenient proxy for unaddressed familial, social, and institutional failures, screen time is now all the time.
Avidly Reads Screen Time is a funny, insightful work of cultural criticism and history about how we define screens, and how they now define us. From Mad Men to iCarly, Vine to FaceTime, binge-watching to doom-scrolling, Phillip Maciak leads us on a sometimes heartwarming, sometimes harrowing tour of the media that brings us together and tears us apart.

Book information

ISBN: 9781479820542
Publisher: NYU Press
Imprint: New York University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 302.2345
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20221021
Language: English
Number of pages: 153
Weight: 296g
Height: 133mm
Width: 210mm
Spine width: 16mm