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.
| ISBN: | 9781138588394 |
| Publication date: | 11th December 2018 |
| Author: | K Shannon Howard |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 166 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
| Genres: |
Popular culture Media studies Impact of science and technology on society |
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.
Unplugging Popular Culture features in the following genres: Popular culture, Media studies, Impact of science and technology on society
Unplugging Popular Culture is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Unplugging Popular Culture was written by K Shannon Howard and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Unplugging Popular Culture has 166 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series
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