Edited clean version : technology and the culture of control / / Raiford Guins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828000303321
• Autore: Guins Raiford
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009
• ISBN: 0-8166-6783-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.31
• Soggetti: Mass media - Censorship - United States; Television - Censorship - United States; V-chips; Motion pictures - Censorship - United States; Internet - Access control - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-233) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1. Control; 2. Blocking; 3. Filtering; 4. Sanitizing; 5. Cleaning; 6. Patching; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, consumer