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. |
Abstract |
"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. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
LCCN | 2021027790 |
ISBN | 9781479811625 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
ISBN | 1479811629 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
ISBN | 9781479811632 paperback ; alkaline paper |
ISBN | 1479811637 paperback ; alkaline paper |
ISBN | electronic book |
ISBN | electronic book |