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Guins, Raiford

 
9780816648153: Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control
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ISBN 10: 0816648158 ISBN 13: 9780816648153
Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2008

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Where is censorship in the age of digital technology?
Not long ago it would have been an absurd idea to purchase a television, CD or MP3 or DVD player, computer software, or game console with the intention of limiting its capabilities. However, as Raiford Guins demonstrates in Edited Clean Version, today's media technology is marketed and sold for what it does not contain and what it will not deliver.
TVs equipped with V-chips, Internet filters, editing DVD players, clean-version CDs and MP3s, and game consoles with parental control features can block out, monitor, disable, and filter information. As Guins argues in this provocative book, consumers now find themselves in new relationships with their everyday media in which they inscribe their viewing, listening, and playing experiences with self-prescribed and technologically enabled values and morals. Censorial practices are not so much enacted on media by regulatory bodies today as they are in our media technology.
According to Guins, these new "control technologies" are designed to embody an ethos of neoliberal governance - through the very media that have been previously presumed to warrant management, legislation, and policing. Repositioned within a discourse of empowerment, security, and choice, the action of regulation, he reveals, has been relocated into the hands of users.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Raiford Guins is assistant professor of digital cultural studies in the Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies and Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture, and Technology (cDACT) at SUNY Stony Brook. He is a founding principal editor for the Journal of Visual Culture.

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Editore
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0816648158
ISBN 13 
9780816648153
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
242
Contatto del produttore
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