| Description |
1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures and Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Imagining the End: Crisis Culture and the Pleasure Economy; 2 Grand Fraud: New Capitalism, Fantasy and Financial Crisis; 3 Reckless Desire: Love, Sexuality and Infinite Bliss; 4 Global Inequalities: Changing World Conditions; 5 The Shadow and the Fawn: Sustainable Nature and Collapsing Ecologies; 6 Fear and Trembling: The Vicissitudes of Global Terror; Conclusion: Visions of the Beginning; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Crisis in the Global Mediasphere examines the evolution of contemporary global crises as an effect of mediation and cultural change. The book argues that a crisis consciousness has emerged through the interaction of crisis conditions and a more expansive human desire for pleasure |
| Notes |
Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures and Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Imagining the End: Crisis Culture and the Pleasure Economy; 2 Grand Fraud: New Capitalism, Fantasy and Financial Crisis; 3 Reckless Desire: Love, Sexuality and Infinite Bliss; 4 Global Inequalities: Changing World Conditions; 5 The Shadow and the Fawn: Sustainable Nature and Collapsing Ecologies; 6 Fear and Trembling: The Vicissitudes of Global Terror; Conclusion: Visions of the Beginning; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Mass media and culture.
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Crises -- Psychological aspects
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Media studies.
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Cultural studies.
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Communication studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Media Studies.
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Crises -- Psychological aspects.
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Mass media and culture.
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230297708 |
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0230297706 |
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1283028182 |
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9781283028189 |
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