This book analyses articles that appeared in popular periodicals from the 1920s to the present
each revealing the panic that parents and adults have expressed about media including radio
television video games and the Internet for the last century. Karen Leick argues that parents
have continuously shown an intense anxiety about new media while expressing a romanticized
nostalgia for their own youth. Recurring tropes describe concerns about each addictive new
media: children do not play outside anymore lack imagination and may imitate violent or other
inappropriate content that they encounter.
