Pathology and Technology - Killer Apps and Sick Users Scott D. TraversPaperback
Pathology and Technology - Killer Apps and Sick Users Scott D. TraversPaperback Pathology & Technology is the first comprehensive look at "technopathologies." Since the days of the telegraph,…
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Pathology and Technology - Killer Apps and Sick Users Scott D. TraversPaperback
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. 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. Today, news reports warn of Pok mon Go deaths and women made vulnerable to sexual assault from wearing headphones.
They help define users as normal or abnormal, in ways that often align with existing social Technopathologies occur with new and old media, the book argues, and are ultimately about people-not machines.