Drugs and Popular Culture in the Age of New Media (Routledge Advances in Criminology)

'this Book Examines The History Of Popular Drug Cultures And Mediated Drug Education, And The Ways In Which New Media - Including Social Networking And Video File-sharing Sites - Transform The Symbolic Framework In Which Drugs And Drug Culture Are Represented. Tracing The Emergence Of Formal Drug Regulation In Both The Us And The United Kingdom From The Late Nineteenth Century, It Argues That Mass Communication Technologies Were Intimately Connected To These Control Regimes From The Very Beginning. Manning Includes Original Archive Research Revealing Official Fears About The Use Of Such Mass Communication Technologies In Britain. The Second Half Of The Book Assesses On-line Popular Drug Culture, Considering The Impact, The Problematic Attempts By Drug Agencies In The Us And The United Kingdom To Harness New Media, And The Implications Of The Emergence Of Many Thousands Of Unofficial Drug-related Sites. -- Publisher Website. Introduction : Cultures Of Intoxication -- Representing Drugs And Intoxication In Popular Media -- The Mediated Regulation Of Intoxication In The Age Of Old Media : The Us Experience From Reefer Madness To Just Say No -- Drugs Regulation And Mediated Drugs Education In Britain -- New Media, Popular Culture And Cultures Of Intoxication -- Virtual Intoxication : Youtube And Popular Drugs Culture -- Conclusion : Virtual Intoxication, Drug Styles And The Way We Consume. Paul Manning. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 219-232) And Index. Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Diagrams 8 List of Tables 10 Acknowledgments 12 1 Introduction: Cultures of Intoxication 14 2 Representing Drugs and Intoxication in Popular Media 31 3 The Mediated Regulation of Intoxication in the Age of ‘Old’ Media: The US Experience from ‘Reefer Madness’ to “Just Say No” 74 4 Drugs Regulation and Mediated Drugs Education in Britain 100 5 New Media, Popular Culture and Cultures of Intoxication 128 6 Virtual Intoxication: YouTube and Popular Drugs Culture 160 7 Conclusion: Virtual Intoxication, Drug Styles and the Way We Consume 188 Notes 220 Bibliography 232 Index 246