Description
Individuals seek ways to repress the sense of violence within themselves and often resort to medial channels. The hunger of the individual for violence is a trigger for the generation of violent content by media, owners of political power, owners of religious power, etc. However, this content is produced considering the individual’s sensitivities. Thus, violence is aestheticized. Aesthetics of violence appear in different fields and in different forms. In order to analyze it, an interdisciplinary perspective is required.
The Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence, Horror, and Power brings together two different concepts that seem incompatible—aesthetics and violence—and focuses on the basic motives of aestheticizing and presenting violence in different fields and genres, as well as the role of audience reception. Seeking to reveal this togetherness with different methods, research, analyses, and findings in different fields that include media, urban design, art, and mythology, the book covers the aestheticization of fear, power, and violence in such mediums as public relations, digital games, and performance art. This comprehensive reference is an ideal source for researchers, academicians, and students working in the fields of media, culture, art, politics, architecture, aesthetics, history, cultural anthropology, and more.
Author's/Editor's Biography
M. Erdem (Ed.)
Assoc. Prof. Dr.
M. Nur Erdem
was born in 1976. She graduated from Kocaeli University Faculty of Communication, Department of Public Relations and Promotion in 2005. She completed her master's degree in Public Relations and Promotion at the same university in 2008 and completed her doctorate in Communication Sciences at Kocaeli University in 2014. She has worked as a lecturer at various foundation universities. Since 2015, she has been working as a faculty member at the Faculty of Communication at Ondokuz Mayıs University. Erdem has numerous national and international publications on digital media and culture, digital advertising, and the relationship between games and advertising. She has also authored works in the field of brand positioning.
Nihal Kocabay-Sener (Ed.)
Nihal Kocabay Şener is an associate professor in Department of Public Relations and Advertising at İstanbul Commerce University. She has an interest in communication sociology and surveillance technology on digital media, visual culture.
Tuğba Demir (Ed.)
Tuğba Demir, was born in 1984. She graduated from Kocaeli University at Communication Faculty, Department of Public Relations and Publicity in 2005. She finished her Master’s Degree in International Management Business at İstanbul Commerce University Graduate School of Social Sciences in 2009. She is currently continuing her Ph.D studies Public Relations and Advertising at Istanbul Commerge University. Ms. Demir is currently working at İzmir Kavram Vocational School in Marketing and Advertising Department in Public Relations and Publicity Program as a lecturer. She gives various lectures on Communication, Management, Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Public Relations, Customer Relationship. Also, deals with visual communication and visual culture.