Don't Use Your Words!

Children's Emotions in a Networked World

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Child & Adolescent, Child Development, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: Jane Juffer ISBN: 9781479807772
Publisher: NYU Press Publication: May 28, 2019
Imprint: NYU Press Language: English
Author: Jane Juffer
ISBN: 9781479807772
Publisher: NYU Press
Publication: May 28, 2019
Imprint: NYU Press
Language: English

How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resist
this emotional management through cultural production

Today, even young kids talk to each other across social media by referencing memes,
songs, and movements, constructing a common vernacular that resists parental,
educational, and media imperatives to name their feelings and thus control
their bodies. Over the past two decades, children’s television programming has provided
a therapeutic site for the processing of emotions such as anger, but in doing
so has enforced normative structures of feeling that, Jane Juffer argues,
weaken the intensity and range of children’s affective experiences.

Don’t Use Your Words! seeks
to challenge those norms, highlighting the ways that kids express their
feelings through cultural productions including drawings, fan art, memes, YouTube
videos, dance moves, and conversations while gaming online. Focusing on kids
between ages five and nine, Don’t Use Your Words! situates these
productions in specific contexts, including immigration policy referenced in drawings
by Central American children just released from detention centers and electoral
politics as contested in kids’ artwork expressing their anger at Trump’s
victory. Taking issue with the mainstream tendency to speak on behalf of
children, Juffer argues that kids have the agency to answer for themselves:
what does it feel like to be a kid?

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How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resist
this emotional management through cultural production

Today, even young kids talk to each other across social media by referencing memes,
songs, and movements, constructing a common vernacular that resists parental,
educational, and media imperatives to name their feelings and thus control
their bodies. Over the past two decades, children’s television programming has provided
a therapeutic site for the processing of emotions such as anger, but in doing
so has enforced normative structures of feeling that, Jane Juffer argues,
weaken the intensity and range of children’s affective experiences.

Don’t Use Your Words! seeks
to challenge those norms, highlighting the ways that kids express their
feelings through cultural productions including drawings, fan art, memes, YouTube
videos, dance moves, and conversations while gaming online. Focusing on kids
between ages five and nine, Don’t Use Your Words! situates these
productions in specific contexts, including immigration policy referenced in drawings
by Central American children just released from detention centers and electoral
politics as contested in kids’ artwork expressing their anger at Trump’s
victory. Taking issue with the mainstream tendency to speak on behalf of
children, Juffer argues that kids have the agency to answer for themselves:
what does it feel like to be a kid?

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