Risk and Hyperconnectivity

Media and Memories of Neoliberalism
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-937550-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 586 g

Reihe: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics

Risk and Hyperconnectivity brings together for the first time three paradigms: new risk theory, neoliberalization theory, and connectivity theory, to illuminate how the kaleidoscope of risk events in the opening years of the new century has recharged a neoliberal battlespace of media, economy, and security. Hoskins and Tulloch argue that hyperconnectivity is both a conduit of risk and a form of risk in itself, and that it alters the ways in which we
experience events and remember them.

Through interdisciplinary dialogue and case study analysis they offer original perspectives on the key questions of risk of our age, including: What is the path to a 'balance' between individual privacy and state (or corporate) security? Is hyperconnectivity itself a new risk condition of our time? How do remembering and forgetting shape citizen insecurity and cultures of risk, and legitimize neoliberal governance? How do journalists operate as 'public intellectuals' of risk?

Through probing a series of risk events that have already scarred the twenty-first century, Hoskins and Tulloch show how both established and emergent media are central in shaping past, present and future horizons of neoliberalism, while also propelling wide pressure for its alternatives on those ranging from economics students worldwide to potential political leaders cultivated by austerity policies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoskins, Andrew

Tulloch, John

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Finanzkrisen, Wirtschaftskrisen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Hoskins is Interdisciplinary Research Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow.

John Tulloch is Professor Emeritus in Communication at Charles Sturt University and Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia.