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Rave Culture is relationship between music, ceremony and
spirituality. Fondness for distant societies is in fact an explicit
feature of rave discourse. A governing ideology of rave culture is
to 'lose themselves' in the music and mood. This way they seek to
lose their mundane individual identity to form a fantasy-based and
technologically enhanced identity and become subsumed into the mass
identity of the crowd. Throughout each society on earth, there are
many different cultures, lifestyles, and traditions. When raving
first became popular, it was an entirely different and strange
thing that no one else had seen before. Beginning as an underground
movement in Europe raves have evolved into a highly organised,
commercialised, world-wide party culture. Money is flowing in India
like crazy, never before the youth ever had so much money in hand.
Rave parties would often have grown up kids of rich industrialists,
IT sector employees, beautiful girls, models, air-hostesses and
other people for whom money is not an important factor. The
post-modern approach views the rave as a culture of abandonment,
disengagement and disappearance. Post-modernism is typified by the
disappearance of the subject. Rave culture is geared towards
fascination rather than meaning, sensation rather than sensibility;
creating an appetite for impossible states of hyper-simulation.
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Mob Justice (Hardcover)
Anju Khosla
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Every criminal is entitled to due process of the law and this fact
forms the cornerstone of any civilised judicial system. In India
there is a spate of lynching in recent times. How do we interpret
this new form of justice system in present context? Have the people
lost their faith in the police completely to indulge in wanton acts
of vigilante justice? Or is it that under particular regime tenure,
people become more confident and daring! Daredevil acts are done by
the coward on behalf of the local community. Mob psychology shows
that individuals tend to behave in a different manner as part of a
group in contrast to acting independently. Individuals in a group
defer their goals and take upon the identity of the group.
Therefore, members of a group are likely to commit acts they would
never commit alone. An incident of mob justice, in addition to
being a shocking indicator of the psychological mindset of a
society also suggests a failed justice delivery mechanism. If
instant justice is meted out to an offender then is the punishment
just in degree for a crime? Humans use threats and violence to
dominate, and also resort to cheating, deceit or negotiation to
obtain status and valued resources. Moreover impulsive violent
behaviours are frequently labelled emotional violence and are
linked with emotions such as anger and fear. The common man, the
politician, the police, the judiciary and the media if work
together the barbaric tradition of mob justice in modern times can
be nipped in the bud.
The media of mass communication, usually called 'mass media' or
'media' include newspapers, magazines, books, film, radio,
television, recorded music, and the Internet. Media is the vehicle
of mass communication, which has traversed a long journey from
crude primitive modes to modern sophisticated means. Of all these
Television has been one of the most important Media of twentieth
century. Violence has always played a role in entertainment. But
there's a growing consensus that, in the recent years, something
about media violence has changed. Research indicates that media
violence has not just increased in quantity; it has also become
much more graphic, much more sexual, and much more sadistic. Media
reports of crime clearly influence general perception, a more
serious problem is the way in which the media covers specific
crimes and specific individuals who are suspected of committing
those crimes.This book looks at the impact of violence vice versa
media from different perspective and tries to enlighten the reader
on the issue. Violence has existed in all ages but it is now that a
child finds it, its constant companion in the form of TV images.
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