Media Resistance : : Protest, Dislike, Abstention.

• Author: Syvertsen, Trine.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2017.; Ã2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (154 pages)

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.