Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution
Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution
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USDAdam Burgess' study is the first account of the health panic surrounding cellular phones that developed in the mid 1990s. Explaining that the related health anxieties had little substantial basis, Burgess traces the origins of the panic and how and why it grew so significantly in some societies, but not in others. The book also outlines a history and sociology of the cell phone, and compares popular reactions to other technologies, such as x-rays and radar.
- The first in-depth study on the subject
- Based on entirely original comparative research
- The subject of the book is the most popular communications technology of our time
Reviews & endorsements
"A masterful treatment of an important but very neglected subject." New Media & Society
Product details
August 2003Hardback
9780521817592
312 pages
229 × 152 × 21 mm
0.63kg
17 b/w illus. 1 table
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introductory chapter: themes, influences
- phones and risk
- 2. The mobile 'revolution'
- 3. Mobile discontents and the origins of microwave fears
- 4. Radiating uncertainty
- 5. Diffusing anxiety: international dissemination and national responses to mobile fears
- 6. The culture of precaution
- 7. Problems of precaution and responsibility.
