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dc.contributor.authorMcCutcheon, Mark A.
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-10T21:55:02Z
dc.date.available2022-03-10T21:55:02Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationMcCutcheon, Mark A. "Chapter 2: Frankenstein Meets the FAANG Five: Figures of Monstrous Technology in Digital Media Discourse." Frankenstein and STEAM: Essays for Charles E. Robinson, edited by Robin Hammerman. U of Delaware P, 2022, pp. 32-46.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781644532522
dc.identifier.isbn9781644532553
dc.identifier.isbn9781644532539
dc.identifier.isbn9781644532546
dc.identifier.urihttps://auspace.athabascau.ca/handle/2149/3667
dc.description.abstractThis chapter first reprises the twofold argument from my book The Medium Is the Monster: the argument that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein effectively reinvented the meaning of the word "technology" for modern English, and that the media theory of Marshall McLuhan popularized this Frankensteinian sense of technology as human-made monstrosity. Then, to illustrate and elaborate that argument, this chapter turns to some popular representations of FAANG [Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google] technologies and activities (e.g. commentaries on Facebook and Twitter, Apple's 2016 holiday ad, and Amazon Prime Video's acquisition of the SF series The Expanse) and discusses the particular ways in which Frankenstein shapes and shadows these representations.en_US
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dc.publisherUniversity of Delaware Pressen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectsocial media
dc.subjectFrankenstein
dc.subject.otherkopeng
dc.titleFrankenstein Meets the FAANG Five: Figures of Monstrous Technology in Digital Media Discourseen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US


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