1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792434603321

Autore

Guins Raiford

Titolo

Edited clean version [[electronic resource] ] : technology and the culture of control / / Raiford Guins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8166-6783-7

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910901897403321

Titolo

Critical perspectives on ancient DNA / / edited by Daniel Strand, Anna Källén and Charlotte Mulcare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2024]

ISBN

0-262-37877-9

0-262-37876-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages)

Disciplina

599.93/509009

Soggetti

Biomolecular archaeology

DNA, Fossil - Research

Human genetics - Research

Anthropology, Prehistoric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Critical perspectives on ancient DNA : an introduction / Daniel Strand and Anna Källén -- Gained in translation : interdisciplinary challenges in ancient DNA / Charlotte Mulcare and Mélanie Pruvost -- Diagrams of human genetic kinship and diversity : from the tree to the mosaic and the network? / Marianne Sommer and Ruth Amstutz -- Past pathogens and precarious futures / Venla Oikkonen -- Twisting strings : Hopi ancestors and ancient DNA / Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa and Chip Colwell -- Whitewashing the Neanderthal : doing time with ancient DNA / Amade M'charek -- The Lagertha complex : archaeogenomics and the Viking stage / Andreas Nyblom -- Ancient DNA and the politics of ethnicity in neo-nationalist China / Magnus Fiskesjö -- Concluding commentary / K. Ann Horsburgh.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of the practices and consequences of ancient DNA research"--