Unwatchable: edited by Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Gunnar Iversen, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2019, 412 pp., $32.95 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-0813599588

Opening with an analysis of an Onion article in which a man, against his better judgment, peers between his fingers to look at the news on his smartphone, the new edited volume Unwatchable provokes...