Mediated Boyhoods by Annette Wannamaker Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens, and Young Men in Popular Media and Culture brings together work from various disciplines that explores the relationships among the everyday lives of boys and such media platforms as television, films, games, sports, music, urban and suburban culture, fashion, young adult novels, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube. He also presents practical solutions, sharing strategies which educators have found effective in re-engaging these boys at school, as well as handy tips for parents about everything from homework, to videogames, to medication. He shows how social, cultural, and biological factors have created an environment that is literally toxic to boys. Leonard Sax delves into the scientific literature and draws on more than twenty years of clinical experience to explain why boys and young men are failing in school and disengaged at home. He’s more concerned about getting to the next level in his videogame than about finishing his homework. While Emily is working hard at school and getting A’s, her brother Justin is goofing off. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. Boys Adrift: the five factors driving the growing epidemic of unmotivated boys and underachieving young men by Leonard Sax Something scary is happening to boys today.

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