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EP #371 - 11.03.2021 - In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality w/Elizabeth Ellcessor
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EP #371 - 11.03.2021 - In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality w/Elizabeth Ellcessor
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68 minutes
Released:
Nov 4, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Today I welcome Elizabeth Ellcessor author of In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality, which is forthcoming in Spring 2022.
Elizabeth Ellcessor is an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, and a senior faculty fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs. Her research focuses on media access as a variable and uneven phenomenon that advantages some and marginalizes others. She is the author of Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation and of In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality, which is forthcoming in Spring 2022.
Elizabeth Ellcessor is an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, and a senior faculty fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs. Her research focuses on media access as a variable and uneven phenomenon that advantages some and marginalizes others. She is the author of Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation and of In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality, which is forthcoming in Spring 2022.
Released:
Nov 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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