01812nam a2200217 i 4500 240120s2012 xx ao 001 0 und d 978-1-4411-3492-9 GCL 302.23 MAC MacDougall, Robert C. Drugs and Media : New Perspectives on Communication Consumption and Cosnciousness / Robert C. MacDougall Continumm New York 2012 340 Pages : pbk. 22 cm. text rdacontent text unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes Index. 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. Mass Communication ddc 0 0 ddc 0 302_230000000000000_MAC 0 2391 LPL LPL BK 2024-01-20 0 302.23 MAC 15654 2024-01-20 13:05:51 2024-01-20 BK 1717 1717