Dangerous Media?: Panic Discourses and Dilemmas of Modernity

• Autores: Kirsten Drotner
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 35, Nº. 3, 1999, págs. 593-619
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article focuses on the history of so-called media panics, i.e. emotionally charged reactions on the appearance of new media. Tracing �la longue durée� of panics overprint, film and computer media and taking examples from Britain, Germany, Sweden and Denmark, the author argues that media panics are intrinsic and recurrent features of modernity. They represent a complex constellation of generational, cultural and existential power struggles through which adults seek to negotiate definitions of character forming (�Bildung�) in order to balance fundamental dilemmas of modernity