Introduction: Youth Television in an Age of Crisis

Aviva Dove-Viebahn

doi:10.1007/978-3-032-14843-8_1

Introduction: Youth Television in an Age of Crisis

Aviva Dove-Viebahn

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Abstract

This introductory chapter offers examples from U.S. shows Black-ish (2014–2022, ABC) and Steven Universe (2013–2019 & 2020, Cartoon Network) in order to illuminate some inherent challenges of contemporary television’s approach to youth viewers and to issues facing today’s youth. This introduction focuses on the fraught position of youth vis-à-vis global precarity, politics, and conflict; the way youth construct their own identities in relation to or by resisting social norms and trends; and how television attempts to address youth’s continual exposure to social, political, and environmental crises in all media forms, as well as in their own lives.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Coresource 4
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	1-20
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9783032148438
ISBN (Print)	9783032148421
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-14843-8_1
State	Published - 2026

Keywords

Black-ish
Post-Traumatic stress
Screen time
Steven Universe
Youth identity
Youth precarity
Youth resistance
Youth television

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General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences

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