Mother Media - Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century

An essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium—winner of the Brooke Hindle Award from the Society for the History of Technology.


From the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune,
Growing out of her previous award-winning book

List of contents

Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Analog Kids
Introduction: How Mother Became a Medium
Part One: The Media of Mothering
1. The First Technology is Human
2. Out of the Cradle
Part Two: Predictive Mothering
3. Hot and Cool Mothers
4. Screening Mother, Coding Baby
Part Three: The Mothering of Media
5. Screen Parking
6. Future, Tomorrow, Dream, Smart
Coda: Where AI Babies Come From (Or, How Baby Became a Medium)
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Hannah Zeavin is Assistant Professor of the History of Science in the Department of History and the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Distance Cure (MIT Press) and Founding Editor of Parapraxis. In 2021, she cofounded The Psychosocial Foundation.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Zeavin
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2025
• EAN: 9780262049559
• ISBN: 978-0-262-04955-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 229 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Science: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, Impact of science and technology on society