SOC 202 Lecture 41: Week 5
21 Oct 2016
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The key issue isn"t what the media are doing to our children but rather what our children are doing with the media. (txt, p 92/ 23 jenkins) check 92-93. Yet, you can go away for decades on end, find your way back to a dc comic, and get reintroduced to the protagonists more or less where you left them. It is often this hope of rekindling something we once felt that draws us aging comic fans back to these titles. It is almost as if we would lose something important in ourselves if watching batman stalk across a darkened alley or spider-man swing from building to building no longer made our hearts beat a little faster. I came to associate comics with the sound of my mother"s voice singing me to sleep or her hands feeling my forehead. And i suspect that"s why i return to them now at moments of stress.
