Karen Leick

Well, what parents are really scared of is this kind of loss of control that I think Cynthia has actually sort of identified as well.

Not just that you don't know exactly what you're

Mm-hmm.

One effect is that sometimes there are regulations or actual legislation put into place around certain technologies.

So if you remember the panic around video games, then leads to ESRB being developed and all those little ratings that are on video games now.

Right.

I don't know what's going to happen with TikTok, for example.

It sounds like some of the anxiety around TikTok was moral panic.

There's a lot going on with TikTok.

But if a platform goes away, it affects a lot of people, sometimes financially, who have nothing to do with anxiety over kids or young people.

Well, that's actually a really interesting point, because if you look at kind of the history of all these conversations around new media, whether you're going all the way back to radio or you're looking at television.

Many of these articles and discussions are in women's magazines.

So if you look at Ladies Home Journal or Good Housekeeping or some of these magazines that a lot of women got every single month, they would have these long articles about basically what you're saying, how to be a good parent.

And a lot of them are kind of fear-based articles.

And the articles that are about these kind of like new media that are really disturbing to people get a lot of attention.

So I think it's really interesting now to see how that's kind of been transformed in the social media sphere.

Yeah, that's a really interesting question.

I hope you don't mind if I answer in a very Chicago specific way.

Go for it.

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