Question Technology: Happy TV Turnoff Week

Monday, April 25, 2005

Happy TV Turnoff Week

Poster_small Check out all the festivities at Adbusters.

TV Turnoff Week is no ordinary social ritual. The goal is simple: to shake up routines and get people questioning the role of TV in their lives.

Sure, it’s a statement against dead-end couch culture. But it's also about cleaning up the mental environment. Like our oceans and air, our shared mindscape is littered with pollutants -- distorted news, manipulative ads, violence and top-down culture.

Links: TV TURNOFF 2005 (Adbusters), TV Turnoff Network, TV B-Gone.

Apr 25, 2005 8:36:34 AM | Culture, Society, Technology, Television

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