Drugs & Media

We 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. <br/> The 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. <em>Drugs & Media: New Perspectives on Communication Consumption and Consciousness</em> 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. <br/><p> </p>