Unplugging Popular Culture: Reconsidering Analog Technology, Materiality, and the “Digital Native" (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

By: K. Shannon Howard

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 166 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780429960529
Related ISBNs:: 9780367663711, 9780429492310, 9781138588394
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/27/23
Copyrighted By:: Taylor and Francis
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.