Margaret M. Cassidy
Associate Professor
Communications
Adelphi University
United States of America
Biography
Margaret M. Cassidy completed PhD, New York University (1995) MA, Fordham University (1991) BA, St. John's University (1987).Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics (Media Ecology Association, 2005) Adelphi University Senior Class of 2006 Distinguished Faculty Award.
Research Interest
The role of media in public education, the purposes of public education in the contemporary media environment, the role of media in the lives of children and adolescents, the history of childhood and of children's interactions with media.
Publications
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“Earning Their Place at the Soda Shop Counter: The Labor and Consumption of Working Class Youth in Victorian-Era American Cities†– Symposium on Work and Consumption in the 19th-21st Centuries, Centre de Recherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris, Université de Paris Est Créteil, April 28, 2017
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Margaret Cassidy (2004). BookEnds: The Changing Media Environment of American Classrooms. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
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Children, Media, and American History: Printed Poison, Pernicious Stuff, and Other Terrible Temptations (forthcoming, September 2017, Routledge).
