# Avidly Reads Screen Time

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- Authors: [Phillip Maciak](https://www.bookquiver.com/phillip-maciak)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2023-05-16
- Genres: Mathematics, Popular science

## Description

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.

## Editions

### Avidly Reads Screen Time

- Publisher: New York University Press
- ISBN: 978-14-7982-054-2
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2023-05-16
- Language: en_US