Ulrich Beck's best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk ...
What are media? Why are more and more objects being turned into media? How do people interconnect with the media in structuring their everyday lives? "In Media Technology: Critical Perspectives", Joost van Loon illustrates how throughout the course of society, different forms of media have helped to shape our perceptions, expectations and ...
The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories of risk from Ulrich Becks foundational work to that of his contemporaries such as Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash and assesses the extent to which ...
What are media? Why are more and more objects being turned into media? How do people interconnect with the media in structuring their everyday lives? "In Media Technology: Critical Perspectives", Joost van Loon illustrates how throughout the course of society, different forms of media have helped to shape our perceptions, expectations and ...
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