Don't Use Your Words!: Children's Emotions in a Networked World

Don't Use Your Words!

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Don't Use Your Words!: Children's Emotions in a Networked World
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Don't Use Your Words!

Don't Use Your Words!

$109.00
$109.00
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How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resist
this emotional management through cultural production.

Today, even young kids talk to each other across social media by referencing memes, songs, and movements, constructing a common vernacular that resists parental, educational, and media imperatives to name their feelings and thus control their bodies. Over the past two decades, children's television programming has provided a therapeutic site for the processing of emotions such as anger, but in doing so has enforced normative structures of feeling that, Jane Juffer argues, weaken the intensity and range of children's affective experiences.

Don't Use Your Words! seeks to challenge those norms, highlighting the ways that kids express their feelings through cultural productions including drawings, fan art, memes, YouTube videos, dance moves, and conversations while gaming online. Focusing on kids between ages five and nine, Don't Use Your Words! situates these productions in specific contexts, including immigration policy referenced in drawings by Central American children just released from detention centers and electoral politics as contested in kids' artwork expressing their anger at Trump's victory. Taking issue with the mainstream tendency to speak on behalf of children, Juffer argues that kids have the agency to answer for themselves: what does it feel like to be a kid?

Book Details

ISBN
9781479831746
Binding
Hardcover
Authors
Jane Juffer
Publisher
New York University Press
Published Date
May 28, 2019
Language
English
Pages
304
Physical Info
0.69 in H x 9 in L x 6 in W (1.19 lb)

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