Media Resistance : Protest, Dislike, Abstention.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Media Resistance
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1 Media Resistance: Connecting the Dots
- Growing up Without Television
- The Book
- Moralists, Luddites and Laggards
- Doomsday Prophets and Cultural Pessimists
- Media Resistance
- What is at Stake?
- What to Do?
- 2 Resistance to Early Mass Media
- Smash the Vitascope!
- Writing, Print, Books: Early Expressions of Resistance
- Serial Fiction: Poisoning the Mind
- Cinema: Education for Crime
- Radio: Risk of Contagion
- Comics: Horror and Mutilations
- What is at Stake?
- What to Do?
- 3 Evil Media in Dystopian Fiction
- Doomsday with a Capital D
- Brave New World: Porn at the "Feelies"
- Nineteen Eighty-Four: Dictatorship by Telescreen
- Fahrenheit 451: Burning All Books
- What is at Stake? Print vs. Screen, Good vs. Bad Literacy
- The Obliteration of Civilization
- What to Do? Where Does Hope Lie?
- 4 "Get a Life!" Anti-Television Agitation and Activism
- The Chief Culprit
- Cleaning Up Television
- Mander and the Elimination of Television
- Huxley was Right: Postman and Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Winn and the Plug-in-Drug
- A Call to Action?
- TV-Free America
- Grass-Root Activism and Professional Support
- Turnoff Travels
- Television Goes Fuzzy
- What is at Stake and What to Do?
- 5 "Caught in the Net": Online and Social Media Disappointment and Detox
- A Medium of Truth
- Heroin in School Milk
- Orwell and Huxley Were Wrong! Keen and the Loss of Culture
- Discourse of Disappointment: Carr and Turkle
- A Call to Converse
- A Media Resistance Rally
- Self-Help and Detox
- "I'm Unplugging for #ScreenFreeWk"
- What is at Stake and What to do?
- 6 What if Resisters were Right? Speculations about Bad Media in Popular Films
- Doomsday with a Lower-case d
- Being There: Television Rules
- Videodrome: Video Kills.
- The Truman Show: Reality Bites
- Disconnect: Social Media Invades
- Her: Virtual Reality Triumphs
- What is at Stake? Erosion of Crucial Values
- Some Hope for the Characters, Little Hope for Society
- 7 Conclusion: The Persistence of Media Resistance
- A Great Failure! A Great Success!
- Shifting Arguments, Recurring Concerns
- Fierce Resistance, Struggling Activists
- The Sustainability of Media Resistance
- Bibliography
- Index.