Global Media Apocalypse

Pleasure, Violence and the Cultural Imaginings of Doom

• Author(s): Jeff Lewis,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 228
• ISBN_10: 1137005459
  ISBN_13: 9781137005458
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Sociology of Religion , Social Science / General , Social Science / Media Studies , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... The modern world seems trapped between fantasies of infinite pleasure and the prospects of total global catastrophe. Global Media Apocalypse explores these contrary imaginings through an evolving cultural ecology of violence. Articulated through the global media, these apocalyptic fantasies express a profoundly human condition of crisis.