Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control
By (Author) Raiford Guins
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st August 2009
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Media studies
Ethical issues and debates
363.31
Physical Properties
Paperback
280
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 18mm
Description
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.
Author Bio
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.
