Between self-conscious sorties, he participates in obsessive, vacuous social media gestures, producing and consuming status updates, tweets, etc.
Morris proposed to Brooker that they turn Barley and the vacuous new-media scene he exemplified into a sitcom.
The American media's vacuous fascination with "balance" and "objectivity" has not only allowed for a people's history to be communicated without their presence, input, or right to represent themselves, but also to preserve existing conditions of power.
Grand Theft Auto V produced a ribald, frenzied pastiche of LA, complete with vacuous movie stars and social media millionaires, but most of its skits and giggles were just dirty jokes wrapped up in the veneer of social commentary.
Last of all, but most beautifully, in her final story Desai writes about the secret part of all human beings that can create no matter how wretched our circumstances, a precious gift she suggests must at all costs flee the roaring, vacuous maw of 21st-century media.
Our girls are faced with three big challenges: schools are failing to inspire them to choose careers in technology, the media is selling them vacuous ambitions and we are failing to show them that they can be heroes.
"Groundhog Day" has both: a surreal hypothesis from the twilight zone and real spiritual heft as Bill Murray's media slickster -- supercilious, repetitively vacuous -- evolves into a full human being.
Currently "starring" on American cable channel E!, the #Rich Kids of Beverly Hills – note the hashtag – are the social-media-savvy successors to years of vacuous programming.
Though the content is vacuous, these guest spots matter a lot in terms of media imagery.
