The Routledge companion to media and risk. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bishnupriya Ghosh and Bhaskar Sarkar.
• Editors: Ghosh, Bishnupriya; Sarkar, B (Bhaskar)
• Contents: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Media and Risk: An Introduction -- Why Media and Risk? -- Media/Mediation -- Risk and Media Across Disciplines -- Risk Histories -- Risk Institutions -- Risk Socialities -- Risk Worlds -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part I -- Historical Perspectives -- 2 Has Risk a History? -- The Mediterranean Origin of Risk -- When Risk Navigated to the Americas -- When Risk Set Foot in the Americas -- Games of Chance: from Narrative to Probability Calculus Daniel Defoe and A Journal of the Plague Year -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3 Risk: The Origin of the Word in Medieval Commerce and Poetry -- From the Maritime Loan to Philosophy -- From the Risk of Death to Paradise -- From Poetry to Theology and Finance -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 4 Insurance and the Language of Risk in Early Modern Political Thought -- The Rise of Risk in Early Modern Britain -- Adam Smith on Contempt for Risk and the Role of Joint-Stock Insurance Companies -- Defoe on Equity, Solidarity, and the Work of Friendly Societies -- Insurance, Commodification, and Property in Lives Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 5 Hazardous Individualism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II -- Expertise -- 6 Risk Media in Medicine: The Rise of the Metaclinical Health App Ecosystem -- Introduction -- Defining Clinical and Metaclinical Spaces and Risk Media -- Digital Infrastructures of Quantified Selves -- Clinical Risk Media: From Personal to Population Health -- Metaclinical Risk Media Interfaces: Digital Health Apps -- Conclusion: Redefining "the Human" through Metaclinical Risk Media -- Works Cited -- 7 The Algorithm Dispositif: Risk and Automation in the Age of #datapolitik Information: It's Alive! -- Algorithmic Provocations -- An Impossible Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8 The Perils of Migration: Countervailing Mediations of Risk at the EU's Maritime Frontier -- The Mediterranean Mobility Conflict -- The Mediterranean Frontier's Regime of (in)Visibility -- Exercising a Disobedient Gaze: The "Left-to-Die Boat" Case -- Documenting the Violence of Policies: Counter-Risk Analysis -- Disobedient Listening to Prevent Migrants' Deaths at Sea -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited and Further Reading 9 Mediating Expertise: Uncertain Risks of Electromagnetic Pollution -- "Uncertain Risks" from EMF -- Experts vis-à-vis Laypersons -- Counter-Expertise: Arguments among Experts -- Lay Expertise, Anecdotal Evidence, and Precautionary Principle -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part III -- Times -- 10 Preparedness Documents After the Fact -- Speculation as Knowledge Production: The Strange Temporality of Preparedness Documents -- Documentation as a World-Making Project -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 11 "Is there a Ghost in the Computer?" A Spectrology of Uncanny Risks
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302/.12; Risk -- Sociological aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315637501; 1315637502; 9781317268239; 1317268237; 9781317268222; 1317268229; 9781317268215; 1317268210
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 17, 2020).
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