Media Resistance : : Protest, Dislike, Abstention.

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