Drugs & Media : New Perspectives on Communication, Consumption, and Consciousness Hardback
Edited by Dr. Robert C. MacDougall
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This is a groundbreaking collection of essays highlighting the links between contemporary society's over-reliance on both media and drugs.
We have developed into a culture that is over-reliant upon pharmaceutical and recreational drugs; where drugs are incessantly advertised and promoted to us via our mass media.
Like drugs, communication media alter the way we interact with the world; they direct our attention in various ways, sometimes enabling certain behaviors and experiences, and prohibiting others.
The contributors to this cutting-edge collection apply media ecological concepts to consider how drugs function as communication technologies; literally media in and for the human sensorium.
In these essays, drugs are considered as communication media in a practical sense, not merely in the metaphorical way they tend to be discussed in the popular press.
Media and drugs are thus conceived as communicative tools that enhance and/or inhibit physical, social and symbolic experience - our ways of seeing and being in the world. "Drugs & Media: New Perspectives on Communication, Consumption and Consciousness" is the first book to examine this parallel, promoting a critical awareness of the significant impact of drugs and media on individuals, society and our wider human culture.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:368 pages, 3 illus
- Publisher:Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:24/11/2011
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- ISBN:9781441119889
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:368 pages, 3 illus
- Publisher:Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:24/11/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781441119889
