MAPACA

Mid-Atlantic Popular &
American Culture Association

Presentations

• “Wake up, Mom and Dad—this isn’t Pac-Man anymore”: The Moral Panic Over Video Games, 1993-1994
  Kevin D Impellizeri (University of Delaware)
• Video Games and the Corruption of Childhood: an Analysis of Myth, Narrative, and Moral Panic in the News following the Sandy Hook School Shooting in 2012
  Kathryn J. Beardsley (Temple University)

  Thomas Pieczkolon (Temple University)