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Radio reporter Herbert Morrison's words on witnessing the destruction of the Hindenburg (Oh, the humanity!) are etched in our collective memory. Yet while we use the Hindenburg --like the Titanic --as shorthand for the technological hubris of a bygone era, we seem to have forgot…
"Oh, the humanity!" Radio reporter Herbert Morrison?s words on witnessing the destruction of the -- Monsters Such foolishness is not limited to the industrial age: newer examples of pathological technologies include the US government?s planned use of hydrogen bombs for large-sca…
"Examines the perils of what the author calls pathological technologies, inventions whose sizeable risks are routinely minimized as a result of their almost mystical allure, "--Novelist.
"This collection presents new work in risk media studies from critical humanities perspectives. Defining, historicizing, and consolidating current scholarship, the volume seeks to shape an emerging field, signposting its generative insights while examining its implicit assumptio…
The Routledge companion to media and risk
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Media and risk : an introduction / Bhaskar Sarkar and Bishnupriya Ghosh -- Has risk a history? / Gaspar Mairal -- Risk : the origin of the word in medieval commerce and poetry / Wolf Kittler -- Insurance and the language of risk in early modern political thought / Emily Nacol --…
The Routledge companion to media and risk
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Type: Book
"This collection presents new work in risk media studies from critical humanities perspectives. Defining, historicizing, and consolidating current scholarship, the volume seeks to shape an emerging field, signposting its generative insights while examining its implicit assumptio…