9/11 on the 'net: Risk and Uncertainty in Hindsight

Authors

  • Judd Anderman

Abstract

I wish to explore 9/11 and its discourses within the context of our modern-day risk society.  I will focus on the role played by the internet in shaping, enabling, coupling/juxtaposing, and filtering individual and institutional preparations and responses to September 11.  How was the internet used to prepare for and manage this risk?  How has it since been used to communicate knowledge of this risk or similar threats?  Which institutions and individuals have been key players?  How, if at all, has the internet, which has rapidly become one of the most pervasive technologies of this age, changed our relationship to risk?

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Published

2009-09-28

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Research Articles

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