In case of emergency : how technologies mediate crisis and normalize inequality / Elizabeth Ellcessor.

By:

Ellcessor, Elizabeth [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : New York University Press, 2022Description: vii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781479811632

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.1 El53i 23

LOC classification:

HV549 .E45 2022

Contents:

Introduction: mediating emergency, maintaining normalcy -- Alarm! The intensified affect of emergency -- Maps and the affective surveillance of "safety" -- Alert: interruptions, instructions, and authority -- What is your emergency? reports and responses -- Help! social media testimony and emergency bids -- Conclusion: from emergency to engagement.

Summary: "In Case of Emergency argues that emergency media are profoundly cultural artifacts that shape the very definition of "emergency" as an opposite of "normal." The normalizing ideologies produced and reinforced by emergency media result in unequal access to emergency services and discriminatory assumptions about who or what is a threat and who deserves care and protection. Thus, a primary function of emergency media is to produce feelings of safety in some while designating others as targets of surveillance and control"-- Provided by publisher.

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"In Case of Emergency argues that emergency media are profoundly cultural artifacts that shape the very definition of "emergency" as an opposite of "normal." The normalizing ideologies produced and reinforced by emergency media result in unequal access to emergency services and discriminatory assumptions about who or what is a threat and who deserves care and protection. Thus, a primary function of emergency media is to produce feelings of safety in some while designating others as targets of surveillance and control"-- Provided by publisher.

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