Drugs & Media: New Perspectives on Communication, Consumption, and Consciousness

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441134921
• ISBN13: 9781441134929
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"