Living as a Zombie in Media is the Only Way to Survive.
Writing about yet another among countless polls, surveys, and reviews of people's media use, Hamilton Nolan of the US-based Gawker blog expresses exasperation that all the breathless rhetoric in such reports boils down to one conclusion: "we're all fucking zombies" (posted on March 27, 2009). Refere...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 25; no. 2/3; pp. 278 - 295 |
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International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
2014
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