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 370 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.