Drugs & media
Subtitle: new perspectives on communication, consumption, and consciousness
By: edited by Robert C. MacDougall
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group; Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781441134929; 9781441119889
Subjects: Drugs; Social aspects; Advertising; Drugs and mass media
Other titles: Drugs and media
Description: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.