{"product_id":"in-case-of-emergency-9781479811625","title":"In Case of Emergency","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA much-needed look at the growth of emergency media and its impact on our livesIn 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. In Case of Emergency argues 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. By interweaving in-depth interviews with emergency-operation and app-development experts, archi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 *\u003cbr\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 *","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409053589847,"sku":"9781479811625","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479811625.jpg?v=1730505264","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-case-of-emergency-9781479811625","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}