“There's a Demon in the Internet”: Haunted Media, Globalization and Televisual Horror

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

“There's a Demon in the Internet”: Haunted Media, Globalization and Televisual Horror

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This paper is focused on the portrayal of media, more precisely television and new media, in television horror shows in the context of globalization and the implications of this portrayal. The media and their technologies have always been demonized in one way or another. Every new invention, every new means of communication is viewed with a mix of awe and suspicion. New technology and new media become objects of phobia. Once a new medium is introduced, it usually takes the position of a phobic object, relieving the old one from this burden. However, a certain level of anxiety remains with the old medium. No genre shows this quite as well as horror. In the horror genre, the media and their physical forms are often shown either as a threat itself or bringer of thereof. The internet and social media are just as monstrous. But how are these monsters, material or not, portrayed in the media itself? In this paper I will analyze how television horror shows mediate the anxiety about threats linked to new media, social media, and television itself. In the first half of the paper, I focus on haunted media as a travelling concept in the television landscape. In the second half, I use the TV show Evil (2019-) as a case study, analyzing how it portrays new media as an ultimate threat in the era of globalization.

Název v anglickém jazyce

“There's a Demon in the Internet”: Haunted Media, Globalization and Televisual Horror

Popis výsledku anglicky

This paper is focused on the portrayal of media, more precisely television and new media, in television horror shows in the context of globalization and the implications of this portrayal. The media and their technologies have always been demonized in one way or another. Every new invention, every new means of communication is viewed with a mix of awe and suspicion. New technology and new media become objects of phobia. Once a new medium is introduced, it usually takes the position of a phobic object, relieving the old one from this burden. However, a certain level of anxiety remains with the old medium. No genre shows this quite as well as horror. In the horror genre, the media and their physical forms are often shown either as a threat itself or bringer of thereof. The internet and social media are just as monstrous. But how are these monsters, material or not, portrayed in the media itself? In this paper I will analyze how television horror shows mediate the anxiety about threats linked to new media, social media, and television itself. In the first half of the paper, I focus on haunted media as a travelling concept in the television landscape. In the second half, I use the TV show Evil (2019-) as a case study, analyzing how it portrays new media as an ultimate threat in the era of globalization.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Theory and Practice in English Studies

ISSN

1805-0859

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

2020-9

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

13-27

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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