[ecrea] Book Announcement-Media, Culture and Human Violence

A new book for your consideration.


/Media, Culture and Human Violence: From Savage Lovers to Violent
Complexity/(Rowman and Littlefield, London. 2016)

By Jeff Lewis

Professor of Media and Cultural Politics

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

*Sales*

Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield

http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/media-culture-and-human-violence

Amazon—http://www.amazon.com/Media-Culture-Human-Violence-Complexity/dp/1783485159

Opportunity to Review the book through KOME (free copy)

http://komejournal.com/files/KOME_Announcement_BooksReceived.pdf

Key Questions

Is violence declining in modern states?

What is the link between media and human violence?

What is the role of media in political violence and warfare?

How are media and culture implicated in global terrorism?

Are social media fortifying or compromising democracy and human rights?

How do modern media systems—including social media systems— represent
issues like the global refugee crisis, climate change and political
revolution?

Why has Islamic State’s communication campaign and use of social media
been so successful?

Jeff Lewis addresses these questions and many more through the lens of
human violence, media and culture. Deviating radically from standard
approaches to media violence, Lewis examines the problem of human
violence through a probing examination of the origins of culture and
communication systems. Examining the fullness of this problem, Lewis
concludes that humans of the advanced world are the most violent beings
of all time. This violence can only be explained in terms of our
thinking and culture, both of which are profoundly implicated in the
ways in which we communicate with one another.

/Media, Culture and Human Violence/is a unique book. It renders the
complexity of history accessible and enthralling, while maintaining a
meticulous and carefully measured argument which takes readers from the
deep past into the present conditions of crisis and violence.

‘Expertly guiding readers through difficult transdisciplinary terrain,
Jeff Lewis illuminates the deep cultural roots of human violence in an
erudite and compassionate way. Most important, he leaves us with hope
for the possibility of those fundamental social transformations that are
necessary for the further evolution of our species.’ Professor /Manfred
B. Steger, University of Hawaii/

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