Global Media Apocalypse

Global Media Apocalypse
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781137005458
ISBN-13 : 1137005459
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Book Synopsis Global Media Apocalypse by : Jeff Lewis

Download or read book Global Media Apocalypse written by Jeff Lewis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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