"zombie box" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002, Galloway Kyle, Harold Monro, Stephen Phillips (editors), Poetry Review, Volume 92, page 60:",
          "text": "taking a form more frequently thought of as anathematical to poetry (Iain Chrichton Smith, for example, lambasted the TV as a deadening zombie box in \"At the TV\") and seeing in it parallels and possibilities.",
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          "ref": "2014, Chris Marie Green, Another One Bites the Dust, page 202:",
          "text": "Nichelle was wary as she set purse and a couple of small shopping bags on the table. \"Great. Thanks?\" He didn't say anything else, just kept watching the zombie box.",
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          "ref": "2020, Keith A. Livers, Conspiracy Culture, Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination, page 23:",
          "text": "More contemporary Russian fears are centered on the ability of mass media to essentially colonize human consciousness, turning the individual into a function of the \"zombie-box\" (or TV), as is the case in Viktor Pelevin's Generation П.",
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        "A television."
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