Introduction: Mediating Emergency, Maintaining Normalcy -- Alarm! The Intensified Affect of Emergency -- Maps and the Affective Surveillance of "Safety" -- Alert: Interruptions, Instructions, and Authority -- What Is Your Emergency? Reports and Responses -- Help! Social Media Testimony and Emergency Bids -- Conclusion: From Emergency to Engagement
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2022)
