Avidly Reads Screen Time Maciak Phillip
Avidly Reads Screen Time Maciak Phillip 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.…
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Avidly Reads Screen Time Maciak Phillip
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. Now, "screen time" has become a metric not only for good parenting, but for our adult lives as well. Screen time was something to fret over, police, and judge in a low-grade moral panic.
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. There's even an app for it! 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.
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