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The Visceral City and the Theatre of Fear
Author(s) -
Sundaram Ravi
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.552
Subject(s) - urbanization , mass media , hysteria , media studies , the internet , sociology , history , criminology , psychology , advertising , political science , psychoanalysis , law , business , economic growth , computer science , economics , world wide web
Over the last decade in India, intensive urbanisation, with the aid of the mass media, has unleashed a new culture of fear. Widespread access to TV, text messaging and the Internet have heightened and played upon individuals' anxieties. Ravi Sundaram describes how in Delhi, in particular, the media provided the catalyst for ‘mass hysteria’ and ‘psychosis’ during the summer of 2002. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.