Forensic Media: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity

by Greg Siegel

Book Overview

In Forensic Media , Greg Siegel considers how photographic, electronic, and digital media have been used to record and reconstruct accidents, particularly high-speed crashes and catastrophes. Focusing in turn on the birth of the field of forensic engineering, Charles Babbage's invention of a "self-registering apparatus" for railroad trains, flight-data and cockpit voice recorders ("black boxes"), the science of automobile crash-testing, and various...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822357534
• ISBN13: 9780822357537
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"