UNPLUGGING POPULAR CULTURE: reconsidering analog technology, materiality, and the "digital native."

Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the "digital native" who acts as an unquestioning devotee to screened technologies like the smartphone. In this study, unplugged tools, or non-digital tools, do not nec...

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Main Author: HOWARD, K. SHANNON (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] ROUTLEDGE 2018
Series:Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Routledge research in cultural and media studies
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Summary:Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the "digital native" who acts as an unquestioning devotee to screened technologies like the smartphone. In this study, unplugged tools, or non-digital tools, do not necessitate a ban on technology or a refusal to acknowledge its affordances but work instead to highlight the ability of fictional characters to move from high tech settings to low tech ones. By repurposing everyday materials, characters model the process of reusing and upcycling existing materials in innovative ways. In studying examples such as Pitch Perfect, Supernatural, Stranger Things, and Get Out, the book aims to make theories surrounding materiality apparent within popular culture and to help today's readers reconsider stereotypes of the young people they encounter on a daily basis
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780429960529
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