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Forensic media : reconstructing accidents in accelerated modernity / Greg Siegel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siegel, Greg, 1968-
- Series:
- Sign, storage, transmission.
- Sign, storage, transmission
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disasters--Press coverage.
- Disasters.
- Transportation accidents--Investigation.
- Transportation accidents.
- Forensic sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>This provocative book considers how photographic, electronic, and digital media have been used to record and reconstruct accidents, particularly high-speed crashes and catastrophes, and argues that "forensic media" thereby transmute disruptive chance occurrences into reassuring narratives of causal succession.</div>
- Contents:
- Engineering detectives
- Tracings
- Black boxes
- Tests and split seconds.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357537
- 0822357534
- 9780822376231
- 0822376237
- OCLC:
- 1139354257
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