Machine generated contents note: 1. Children and Media in the Early United States -- Changing Conceptions of Childhood -- Print Media and Children in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Changes on the Way -- 2. Mass Press -- Information Explosion -- Penny Press -- Penny Press and Children -- Some Good News -- Cheap Fiction -- Concerns About Children and Cheap Fiction -- Maybe It's Not So Bad? -- Cheap Fiction as a Point of Entry to "Better" Fiction -- Amateur Journalism -- Turbulent Times -- 3. Beyond Story Papers and Dime Novels: Flash and Fancy -- Racy Publications -- Cleanup Efforts -- Public Amusements -- 4. Rise of Mass Media and Youth Culture in the Twentieth Century -- Film -- Radio -- 5. Midcentury Media and Turbulent Teens -- Rock & Roll -- Comic Books -- TV Time -- 6. Television Takes Center Stage -- Enter Television -- Early Research on Children and Television -- Television in the Lives of Our Children -- Research Continues -- Surgeon Generals' Reports -- Medium Is the Message -- Later Evolution of Television -- 7. Twenty-First Century Childhood and Digital Media -- Next-Best Thing in an Age of Limited Freedom -- Testing the Waters of Independence -- Protecting Privacy -- Competition Between Parents and Media for Children's Attention -- Looking Back ... Looking Forward
