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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.
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.
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