Routledge Companion to Media and Risk

<p>This collection presents new work in risk media studies from critical humanities perspectives. Defining historicizing and consolidating current scholarship the volume seeks to shape an emerging field signposting its generative insights while examining its implicit assumptions. </p><p>When and under what conditions does risk emerge? How is risk mediated? Who are the targets of risk media? Who manages risk? Who lives with it? Who are most in danger? Such questions—the what how who when and why of risk media—inform the scope of this volume. With roots in critical media studies and science and technology studies it hopes to inspire new questions perspectives frameworks and analytical tools not only for risk media and communication studies but also for social and cultural theories. </p><p>Editors Bishnupriya Ghosh and Bhaskar Sarkar bring together contributors who elucidate and interrogate risk media’s varied histories and futures. This book is meant for students and scholars of media and communication studies science and technology studies and the interdisciplinary humanities looking either to deepen their engagement with risk media or to broaden their knowledge of this emerging field.</p>