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This paper examines how far new media technologies are transforming the nature of risk in contemporary society. It focuses on the ways in which the Internet came to act as a key vehicle for the rapid circulation of news, rumors, and hoaxes, as well as displays of public grieving, in the wake of September 11. The paper concludes by reassessing theories of “risk society” in relation to growing anxieties about the nature of future terrorist attacks. It suggests that there is an urgent need to understand how the dynamics of new media technologies are altering the ways in which we perceive such risks.
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Her main research interests are focused around the news media and risk, and she is the author of Media, Culture and the Environment, UCL Press, 1997 (Rutgers University Press in the United States).
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Anderson, A.G. Risk, terrorism, and the internet. Know Techn Pol 16, 24–33 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12130-003-1023-7
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