Global media apocalypse : pleasure, violence and the cultural imaginings of doom /

Lewis, Jeff, 1964-

Global media apocalypse : pleasure, violence and the cultural imaginings of doom / Jeff Lewis. - xi, 228 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: out of the 9/11 decade -- New media-old empires: celebrity, sex and revolutions of knowing -- Under the volcano: the cultural ecology of nature -- Hyper-pleasure: consumer rituals and transactions of desire -- Menace: westernism, media and the cultural ecology of violence -- After the apocalypse: refugees, human rights and the global media future -- Conclusion.

1137005440 9781137005441

2012040925


Social conflict in mass media
Mass media and culture
Violence in mass media.
Mass media and public opinion

P96.S63 / L49 2012

303.6

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