Pathology and Technology - Killer Apps and Sick Users (Hardcover, New edition)

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 Pokemon 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.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	D.Travers Scott
Dimensions:	225 x 150mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	288
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-4846-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	1-4331-4846-3
Barcode:	9781433148460

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