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Media Studies and Drug Research

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This volume offers a comprehensive outlook on the convergences between media and drug research. Bringing together media scholars and drug researchers to highlight the intricate interconnections of these two dynamic domains, the book explores the mutual entanglements, overlaps, and intersections between mediated practices and substance use, from representations and narratives to technologies, stigma, identity work, and policy regimes.Through original contributions that traverse theoretical, empirical, and methodological terrains, the book highlights how media technologies and discourses, market structures, identities, and policies are co-produced across both fields. The collection opens with a cluster of chapters tackling language of moral panics and stigma, emphasizing how media narratives fuel or challenge dominant framings of drugs and people who use them, before moving to discuss media representations—both legacy and digital—and their entanglement with narratives of criminality, celebrity, and harm. The volume then interrogates post-prohibition imaginaries, mapping out alternative visions and creative appropriations of drug cultures in digital spaces, and the blurring of online and offline worlds.Theoretical innovations and methodological reflections are interwoven throughout the collection, contributing to a transdisciplinary dialogue that spans media and cultural studies, linguistics, sociology, criminology, and drug policy. In doing so, this volume not only reflects the state of the art in two distinct fields but carves out a new, shared territory—one where media studies meets drug research to map the terrain of mediated intoxication, regulation, resistance, and care.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-20
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Antal sidor224
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041365372

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Michał Wanke is a sociologist based at the University of Opole, Poland. Specializing in drug user cultures within non-liberalized contexts, he combines drug and migration studies while accounting for digital platform intermediaries. He co-edited Cannabis: Cultures and Markets (2024) and published papers on the subject.Piotr Siuda works at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His work focuses on internet studies and online drug markets, with publications in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and International Journal of Drug Policy, among others. He is an Associate Editor for the SAGE Journal of Creative Communications.

Introduction. Mediated intoxication: Media studies meet drug research Part 1. Stigma of the prohibition 1. The social ecology of moral panics: Control need displacement and the moral panic multiverse; 2. Drug talk: reframing stigma as mass-mediated common sense; 3. “My favorite type of weed was cocaine”: Parasocial relationships as positive exposure to addiction recovery Part 2. Representing the problematic 4. Convergence of celebrity and crime: Case Katiska in the Finnish hybrid media; 5. Chemsexuality: Trans perspectives from the margins of harm reduction Part 3. Post-prohibition visions 6. H I G H A T W O R K: Drug use as subjectivity in internet music; 7. The influencer-educator as agenda-builder? Harm reduction discourses and platform economies Part 4. Challenging the digital dualism 8. The embeddedness of digital drug markets in the process of platformization; 9. Social media facilitated drug trading through the lens of media theory; 10. Beyond knowledge exchange: Narrative practices and community formation in online drug forums; Information about contributors; Index