Pathology and Technology: Killer Apps and Sick Users

di D. Travers Scott (Autore)

Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2018

Pathology & Technology is the first comprehensive look at "technopathologies." Since the days of the telegraph, electric communication technologies have been associated with causing or worsening mental and physical illnesses. Today, news reports warn of Pokémon Go deaths and women made vulnerable to sexual assault from wearing headphones. Drawing on an archive of hundreds of cases found across news, entertainment, and other sources over 150 years, this book investigates the intersection of technology and disease through original cultural historiography, focus groups, and discourse analysis, documenting a previously unexplored phenomenon in communication and media. Technopathologies occur with new and old media, the book argues, and are ultimately about people—not machines. They help define users as normal or abnormal, in ways that often align with existing social stereotypes. Courses on technological history, medical humanities, science and technology studies, and medical history will find much here to debate, in a style written to appeal to scholarly as well as popular readers.

• Autore: D. Travers Scott
• Editore: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 288 p.
• Dimensioni: 225 x 150 mm
• Peso: 435 gr.
• EAN: 9781433148453

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