Drugs and Popular Culture in the Age of New Media

Drawing on criminology media studies and sociology this book examines the ways in which new media - including social networking and video file-sharing sites - transforms the symbolic framework in which drugs and drug culture are represented. It argues that much traditional mediated drugs education has been based upon linear models of centralised or top-down mass communication and suggests that while the effectiveness of such campaigns was always open to question in an age of new interactive media such approaches are redundant.