TY - BOOK AU - Lewis,Jeff TI - Global media apocalypse: pleasure, violence and the cultural imaginings of doom SN - 1137005440 AV - P96.S63 L49 2012 U1 - 303.6 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Social conflict in mass media KW - Mass media and culture KW - Violence in mass media KW - Mass media and public opinion N1 - 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 ER -