{"product_id":"in-case-of-emergency-how-technologies-mediate-crisis-and-normalize-inequality-hardback-9781479811625","title":"In Case of Emergency; How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality (Hardback) 9781479811625","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIn Case of Emergency\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth Ellcessor (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479811625\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 March 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 11 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e0.9 x 0.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003cp\u003eIn this moment, in which everything and nothing are simultaneously defined using the language\u003cbr\u003e of emergency, Elizabeth Ellcessor's book is resonant, brilliant, timely, and compassionate, and\u003cbr\u003e helps to chart a way forward. Her analysis of emergency media and how they express specific\u003cbr\u003e articulations of technology, culture, and power as well as their connection to existing forms of\u003cbr\u003e white supremacy, disability justice, and misogyny are rigorous, and explain how our\u003cbr\u003e understandings of emergencies and the media with which we communicate that information have\u003cbr\u003e life and death stakes.\u003c\/p\u003e \" (Shoshana Magnet, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity \u003c\/i\u003e) \"\u003cp\u003eSirens blare. Maps blaze in alarming colors. Phones buzz stridently as pop-up alerts invade the\u003cbr\u003e screen. Media technologies index the presence of an emergency, putting us on alert, entreating us\u003cbr\u003e to leap into protective action. Yet as Elizabeth Ellcessor argues cogently in her timely, alarming,\u003cbr\u003e and ultimately reparative book, emergency media and the workers operating them also have the\u003cbr\u003e power to construct emergency—to cultivate panic, to amplify risk, to signal when we've tipped\u003cbr\u003e over into some unacceptably harmful, destructive, or costly deviation from the norm. Emergency\u003cbr\u003e media inform how 'normality' is defined, and whose norms become the standard. It thus has the\u003cbr\u003e capacity, as Ellcessor shows us, to cultivate a new norm that's more inclusive, just, and\u003cbr\u003e compassionate.\u003c\/p\u003e \" (Shannon Mattern, author of \u003ci\u003e Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media \u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA much-needed look at the growth of emergency media and its impact on our lives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In an emergency, we often look to media: to contact authorities, to get help, to monitor evolving situations, or to reach out to our loved ones. Sometimes we aren't even aware of an emergency until we are notified by one of the countless alerts, alarms, notifications, sirens, text messages, or phone calls that permeate everyday life. Yet most people have only a partial understanding of how such systems make sense of and act upon an \"emergency.\" \u003ci\u003eIn Case of Emergency \u003c\/i\u003eargues that emergency media are profoundly cultural artifacts that shape the very definition of \"emergency\" as an opposite of \"normal.\" Looking broadly across a range of contemporary emergency-related devices, practices, and services, Elizabeth Ellcessor illuminates the cultural and political underpinnings and socially differential effects of emergency media. \u003cbr\u003e By interweaving in-depth interviews with emergency-operation and app-development experts, archival materials, and discursive and technological readings of hardware and infrastructures, Ellcessor demonstrates that emergency media are powerful components of American life that are rarely, if ever, neutral. The normalization of 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. As emergency media undergo massive growth and transformation in response to digitization and attendant entrepreneurial cultures, Ellcessor asks where access, equity, and accountability fit in all of this. The first book to develop a typology of emergency media, \u003ci\u003eIn Case of Emergency \u003c\/i\u003eopens a much-needed conversation around the larger cultural meanings of \"emergency,\" and what an ethical and care-based approach to emergency could entail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591063728408,"sku":"9781479811625","price":54.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/in-case-of-emergency-how-technologies-mediate-crisis-and-normalize-inequality-hardback-9781479811625","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}