Abstract:<p>Since the advent of low-cost modern media technologies (records, films, radio, television, and the internet), <em>popular culture</em> has both shaped and been shaped by complex economic, political, governmental, moral, and artistic concerns. <em>Fear and anxiety</em> and the human capacity to control, reduce, or induce them in others have been tools for influencing both individual and societal behaviours for far longer. At the juncture of these two are both opportunity and haz… Show more
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