Radiant Infrastructures : Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty

Mukherjee, Rahul; Prentice, William E., Ph.D. (EDT); Kaminski, Thomas W., Ph.D. (EDT); Scibek, Jason, Ph.D. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1478007621 / ISBN 13: 9781478007623

Published by Duke University Press, 2020

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Synopsis:

In Radiant Infrastructures Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India—what he calls radiant infrastructures—creates environmental publics: groups of activists, scientists, and policy makers who use media to influence public opinion. In documentaries, lifestyle television shows, newspapers, and Bollywood films, and through other forms of media (including radiation-sensing technologies), these publics articulate contesting views about the relationships between modernity, wireless signals, and nuclear power. From testimonies of cancer patients who live close to cell towers to power plant operators working to contain information about radiation leaks and health risks, discussions in the media show how radiant infrastructures are at once harbingers of optimism about India's development and emitters of potentially carcinogenic radiation. In tracing these dynamics, Mukherjee expands understandings of the relationship between media and infrastructure and how people make sense of their everyday encounters with technology and the environment.

About the Author: Rahul Mukherjee is Dick Wolf Assistant Professor of Television and New Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Radiant Infrastructures : Media, Environment...
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New