Rahul Mukherjee: Radiant Infrastructures

Cover: 9781478008064 | Radiant Infrastructures | Rahul Mukherjee | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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In Radiant Infrastructures Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India-what he calls radiant infrastructures-creates environmental publics: groups of activists, scientists, and policy makers who use media to influence public opinion. In documentaries, lifestyle television shows, newspapers, and Bollywood films, and through other forms of media (including radiation-sensing technologies), these publics articulate contesting views about the relationships between modernity, wireless signals, and nuclear power. From testimonies of cancer patients who live close to cell towers to power plant operators working to contain information about radiation leaks and health risks, discussions in the media show how radiant infrastructures are at once harbingers of optimism about India's development and emitters of potentially carcinogenic radiation. In tracing these dynamics, Mukherjee expands understandings of the relationship between media and infrastructure and how people make sense of their everyday encounters with technology and the environment.

Über den Autor

Rahul Mukherjee is Dick Wolf Assistant Professor of Television and New Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction. Radiant Energies and Environmental Controversies I
1. Debating Cell Towers 39
2. Contested Nuclear Imaginaries 70
3. Emissions 106
4. Exposures 138
5. Styling Advocacy: Activism and Citizenship 163
Conclusion 192
Notes 219
References 241
Index 259

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781478008064
ISBN-10:	1478008067
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mukherjee, Rahul
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Rahul Mukherjee
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.03.2020
Gewicht:	0,424 kg