Overview
- Examines the emergence of screens in society and their impact on every aspect of everyday life
- Based on the most ambitious online qualitative research project to date
- Challenges prevailing thinking on internet addiction, trolling, dating, gambling and offers surprising insights into how 'Screenagers' think about the scares surrounding these
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Screens have been with us since the eighteenth century, though we became accustomed to staring at them only after the appearance of film and television in the twentieth century. But there was nothing in film or TV that prepared us for the revolution wrought by the combination of screens and the internet. Society has been transformed and this book asks how and with what consequences?
Screen Society’s conclusions are based on an original research project conducted by scholars in the UK and Australia. The researchers designed their own research platform and elicited the thoughts and opinions of nearly 2000 participants, to draw together insights of today’s society as seen by users of smartphones, tablets and computers – what the authors call Screenagers. The book issues challenges to accepted wisdom on many of the so-called problems associated with our persistent use of screen devices, including screen addiction, trolling, gaming and gambling.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ellis Cashmore is Honorary Professor of Sociology at Aston University, UK
Jamie Cleland is Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the University of South Australia
Kevin Dixon is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law at Teesside University, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Screen Society
Authors: Ellis Cashmore, Jamie Cleland, Kevin Dixon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68164-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68163-4Published: 10 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68164-1Published: 12 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 262
Topics: Popular Social Sciences, Sociology of Culture, Science and Technology Studies, Culture and Technology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Cross Cultural Psychology