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The fear that television might take over society and dominate individuals was articulated in George Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, first published in 1949:
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Dant, T. (2012). Society and the Small Screen. In: Television and the Moral Imaginary. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137035554_6
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