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Digital Affect, Clubbing and Club Drug Cultures: Reflection, Anticipation, Counter-Reaction

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Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion

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Those who spend their leisure time in the UK’s night-time economy (herein NTE) have higher rates of lifetime and past-month use of illegal drugs than the general population (Measham et al., 2001; Deehan and Saville, 2003), whilst electronic dance music (herein EDM) clubbers have the highest illegal drug prevalence rates in the UK’s NTE.1 Patterns of drug use also vary according to the EDM ‘scene’, with for example those frequenting hard dance and trance nights having the highest rates of ecstasy and ketamine use, compared to those frequenting drum and bass nights who have the highest rates of cannabis use and the lowest rates of ketamine use (Measham and Moore, 2009). Most recently, emergent psychoactive substances or (formerly) ‘legal highs’ such as Gammahydroxybutrate (GBL or ‘G’) and mephedrone (‘Meph’ or ‘M-Cat’) have been added to clubbers’ polydrug repertoires of more familiar club drugs such as ecstasy, cocaine and ketamine (Measham et al., 2010; Winstock and Power, 2011).

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    Athina Karatzogianni (Senior Lecturer in New Media and Political Communication) (Senior Lecturer in New Media and Political Communication)

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    Adi Kuntsman (Simon Research Fellow) (Simon Research Fellow)

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Moore, K. (2012). Digital Affect, Clubbing and Club Drug Cultures: Reflection, Anticipation, Counter-Reaction. In: Karatzogianni, A., Kuntsman, A. (eds) Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391345_7

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