{"product_id":"forensic-media-greg-siegel-9780822357537","title":"Forensic Media: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity","description":"In \u003ci\u003eForensic Media\u003c\/i\u003e, Greg Siegel considers how photographic, electronic, and digital media have been used to record and reconstruct accidents, particularly high-speed crashes and catastrophes. Focusing in turn on the birth of the field of forensic engineering, Charles Babbage's invention of a \"self-registering apparatus\" for railroad trains, flight-data and cockpit voice recorders (\"black boxes\"), the science of automobile crash-testing, and various accident-reconstruction techniques and technologies, Siegel shows how \"forensic media\" work to transmute disruptive chance occurrences into reassuring narratives of causal succession. Through historical and philosophical analyses, he demonstrates that forensic media are as much technologies of cultural imagination as they are instruments of scientific inscription, as imbued with ideological fantasies as they are compelled by institutional rationales. By rethinking the historical links and cultural relays between accidents and forensics, Siegel sheds new light on the corresponding connections between media, technology, and modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greg Siegel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822357534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822357537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Greg Siegel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926538649855,"sku":"9780822357537","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_13ed404e-436c-43ed-b11e-7adaf4a7faab.jpg?v=1681083626","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forensic-media-greg-siegel-9780822357537","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}