Introduction. Mediated intoxication: Media studies meet drug research, Piotr Siuda and Michał Wanke Part 1. Stigma of the prohibition 1. The social ecology of moral panics: Control need displacement and the moral panic multiverse, Jon Heidt and Johannes Wheeldon; 2. Drug talk: reframing stigma as mass-mediated common sense, Liviu Alexandrescu; 3. “My favorite type of weed was cocaine”: Parasocial relationships as positive exposure to addiction recovery, Max Weselowski and Jaigris Hodson Part 2. Representing the problematic 4. Convergence of celebrity and crime: Case Katiska in the Finnish hybrid media, Elisa Kannasto and Ari Haasio; 5. Chemsexuality: Trans perspectives from the margins of harm reduction, Santiago Camara Part 3. Post-prohibition visions 6. H I G H A T W O R K: Drug use as subjectivity in internet music, Lucy March; 7. The influencer-educator as agenda-builder? Harm reduction discourses and platform economies, Piotr Siuda and Patrycja Hewelt Part 4. Challenging the digital dualism 8. The embeddedness of digital drug markets in the process of platformization, Meropi Tzanetakis; 9. Social media facilitated drug trading through the lens of media theory, Robin van der Sanden, Chris Wilkins, Marta Rychert, and Monica J. Barratt; 10. Beyond knowledge exchange: Narrative practices and community formation in online drug forums, Ola Røed Bilgrei; Information about contributors; Index
Biography
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.
