@article{0da2148a5373444680cdb2abb07f7349,
title = "Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications That Helped Condemn Comics",
abstract = " Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and his 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent serve as historical and cultural touchstones of the anticomics movement in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. Although there have been persistent concerns about the clinical evidence Wertham used as the basis for Seduction, his sources were made widely available only in 2010. This article documents specific examples of how Wertham manipulated, overstated, compromised, and fabricated evidence{\textemdash}especially that evidence he attributed to personal clinical research with young people{\textemdash}for rhetorical gain. ",
keywords = "Comic books, comic strips",
author = "Tilley, \{Carol L\}",
note = "Topics broadened beyond numerical analysis. A young electrical engineer, Ren{\'e} Perret, who had worked six months at the Harvard Computing Laboratory with H. Aiken and at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, taught the architecture and technology of digital machines and then created his own laboratory devoted to automatic control systems. In 1959 a new laboratory was created by CNRS, in conjunction with IMAG, to study computer-aided translation; this team was supported by the defense ministry and secured contracts from the US Air Force, NATO, and the Rand Corporation. In 1962 Kuntzmann switched from numerical analysis{\textemdash}which he passed on to another professor{\textemdash}to Boolean algebra and circuit logic in order to develop integrated circuits, in collaboration with a newly created semiconductor plant in Grenoble. Meanwhile, he assigned a team led by his first assistant, Louis Bolliet, to systematically explore the problem of computer-language compilation in cooperation with various computer manufacturers, particularly with IBM, which by this point provided the main machines installed at IMAG. In the mid-1960s IMAG employed 140 staff, including some 60 doctoral students. It covered the whole array of what was beginning to be called computer science, or informatique, and participated in the definition of new curricula in this discipline at the national level.",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1353/lac.2012.0024",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "47",
pages = "383--413",
journal = "Information \& Culture: A Journal of History",
issn = "2164-8034",
number = "4",
}