Traces of Fukushima: Global Events, Networked Media and Circulating Emotions

by Anna Rantasila, Mikihito Tanaka, Katja Valaskivi

Book Overview

Introduction: Tracing the Meanings of Fukushima.- Part I - Time.- Dealing with the Disaster - The Live Media Event.- Temporal Affordances in the Networked Remembering of Fukushima.- Part II - Space.- Towards a Geography of Mediated Affect: Discursive Spaces and Emotional Dynamics.- Social Media and Ambient Social Distance.- Part III -Emotion.- The Global Circulation of Affect - The Case of Iodide Tablets.- Affective Entanglements of Expertise - The Finnish Case.- Conclusion: Time, Space and Emotion in Tracing Fukushima.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811368635
• ISBN13: 9789811368639
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"