{"product_id":"drugs-media-new-perspectives-on-communication-consumption-and-consciousness-9781441134929","title":"Drugs \u0026 Media: New Perspectives on Communication, Consumption, and Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert C. Macdougall\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Continuum\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Continuum\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Media Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u0026amp; 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.","brand":"Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45083397587095,"sku":"9781441134929","price":5124.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781441134929.webp?v=1767263827","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/drugs-media-new-perspectives-on-communication-consumption-and-consciousness-9781441134929","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}