{"product_id":"edited-clean-version-technology-and-the-culture-of-control-paperback","title":"Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRaiford Guins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot 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 \u003ci\u003eEdited Clean Version\u003c\/i\u003e, today's media technology is marketed and sold for what it does not contain and what it will \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e deliver. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTVs 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, consumers now find themselves in new relationships with their everyday media in which they inscribe their viewing, listening, and playing experiences with self-prescribed and technologically enabled values and morals. Censorial practices are not so much enacted \u003ci\u003eon\u003c\/i\u003e media by regulatory bodies today as they are \u003ci\u003ein\u003c\/i\u003e our media technology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccording to Guins, these new \"control technologies\" are designed to embody an ethos of neoliberal governance--through the very media that have been previously presumed to warrant management, legislation, and policing. Repositioned within a discourse of empowerment, security, and choice, the action of regulation, he reveals, has been relocated into the hands of users.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaiford Guins is assistant professor of digital cultural studies in the Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies and Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture, and Technology (cDACT) at SUNY Stony Brook. He is a founding principal editor for the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52731813560627,"sku":"9780816648153","price":52.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dEJLR2JPdnhqRVR4dG5vOVVkeEU5dz09.webp?v=1763870398","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/edited-clean-version-technology-and-the-culture-of-control-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}