In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality

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"--

• | Author: Elizabeth Ellcessor
• | Publisher: Nyu Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 19, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1479811629
• | ISBN-13: 9781479811625