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

• Autore: Guins Raiford
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.31
• Soggetto topico: Mass media - Censorship - United States; Television - Censorship - United States; V-chips; Motion pictures - Censorship - United States; Internet - Access control - United States
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Edited clean version
• ISBN: 0-8166-6783-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792434603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II