ABSTRACT
Chapter 6, which addresses the Netflix show Stranger Things, reveals that analog sensibilities, not just its tools, play a significant role in the lives of children across generations. Taking place in the early 1980s, this series focuses on a boy named Will Byer’s disappearance and how it triggers a series of supernatural events in a small town. The boy’s best friends find creative ways to locate him, using existing technologies like short-wave radio. However, once Will returns, the trouble continues because holes now exist between different realities that threaten to annihilate all life. In Season Two Will’s own artistic talents demonstrate how children, even at their most powerless, find innovative ways to save their families and friends from destruction. This chapter demonstrates how children born in every generation have used older forms of technology to improve upon the more modern or contemporary tools of their adult counterparts.
