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Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control
Raiford Guins
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Description for Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
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 ... Read moreAccording 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. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816648153
SKU
V9780816648153
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Ref
99-15
About Raiford Guins
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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