Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution

ISBN-13: 9780521817592 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 312 str.

Adam Burgess

Opis

Adam Burgess' study is the first account of the health panic surrounding cellular phones that developed in the mid 1990s. Explaining that the related health anxieties had little substantial basis, Burgess traces the origins of the panic and how and why it grew so significantly in some societies, but not in others. The book also outlines a history and sociology of the cell phone, and compares popular reactions to other technologies, such as x-rays and radar.

Recenzje

'… Adam Burgess' important book is the first major work to examine the history and dynamics of the scare.' New Media and Society

Spis treści

1. Introductory chapter: themes, influences; phones and risk; 2. The mobile 'revolution'; 3. Mobile discontents and the origins of microwave fears; 4. Radiating uncertainty; 5. Diffusing anxiety: international dissemination and national responses to mobile fears; 6. The culture of precaution; 7. Problems of precaution and responsibility.