The future of childhood

Question 1

What does Postman argue?

Answer 1

Childhood is disappearing
Shift between print culture to television culture has been the cause of change in childhood.

Question 2

What is the information hierarchy?

Answer 2

Children lacked literacy skills so they couldn’t explore adult matters and materials (within print culture)
Money
Violence
Illness
Death

Question 3

What has an increase in television culture created

Answer 3

Status has become blurred
Adult authority is weakened
Information available to each

Question 4

What are advantages of the disappearing childhood argument?

Answer 4

Different types of communication technology can influence concept of childhood, very contemporary

Question 5

What does Opie argue against the disappearing childhood?

Answer 5

There is strong evidence of continuation of separate children’s culture

Question 6

What does Jenks argue against disappearing childhood?

Answer 6

Paranoid parenting
Technology can be used to protect children
Parents are now more concerned over the well-being of their children

Question 7

What is a weakness of disappearing childhood?

Answer 7

Over emphasis on TV being a singular cause

Question 8

What does Jenks argue?

Answer 8

Childhood is postmodernisty
Adult relationships become more unstable (more divorce), parents must seek stability from their children.
So parents are more protective over their children