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Generation digital: politics, commerce, and childhood in the age of the Internet. By K. C. Montgomery, Boston, MA: The MIT Press, 2007

Generation digital: politics, commerce, and childhood in the age of the Internet. By K. C.... Int. J. Appl. Psychoanal. Studies 7: 94–98 (2010) DOI: 10.1002/aps Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Book Review and Commentary Armed with years of experience as a media advocate and formal training as a media scholar, Montgomery unravels with ease the people, events, and ideas that shaped the culture of the Digital Generation. Organized into two sections, the book first examines the years of negotiation between government, industry, and advocacy groups as they grappled over the issues of children’s privacy and exposure to indecency. Then it explores the Digital Generation’s eager adoption of the Internet, which made it a target of commercial and social marketing campaigns. The first half of the book chronicles the symbolic role of children and teens in media politics and policy debates that took place from the early 1990s through the turn of the century, when legislators faced intense scrutiny from child advocacy and conservative groups to regulate media on two digital fronts: television and the Internet. The proliferation of television violence had already sparked a debate on how to protect children from viewing inappropriate content. As television executives and government officials negotiated regulatory measures to make television suitable for children, new http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Wiley

Generation digital: politics, commerce, and childhood in the age of the Internet. By K. C. Montgomery, Boston, MA: The MIT Press, 2007

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Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Int. J. Appl. Psychoanal. Studies 7: 94–98 (2010) DOI: 10.1002/aps Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Book Review and Commentary Armed with years of experience as a media advocate and formal training as a media scholar, Montgomery unravels with ease the people, events, and ideas that shaped the culture of the Digital Generation. Organized into two sections, the book first examines the years of negotiation between government, industry, and advocacy groups as they grappled over the issues of children’s privacy and exposure to indecency. Then it explores the Digital Generation’s eager adoption of the Internet, which made it a target of commercial and social marketing campaigns. The first half of the book chronicles the symbolic role of children and teens in media politics and policy debates that took place from the early 1990s through the turn of the century, when legislators faced intense scrutiny from child advocacy and conservative groups to regulate media on two digital fronts: television and the Internet. The proliferation of television violence had already sparked a debate on how to protect children from viewing inappropriate content. As television executives and government officials negotiated regulatory measures to make television suitable for children, new

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