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OverviewIn January 1998 a massive ice storm descended on New York, New England, and eastern Canada. It crushed power grids from the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic, forcing thousands of people into public shelters and leaving millions of others in their homes without electricity. In this riveting book Stephen Doheny-Farina presents an insider's account of these events, describing the destruction of the electric network in his own village and the emergence of the face-to-face interactions that took its place. His stories examine the impact of electronic communications on community, illuminating the relationship between electronic and human connections and between networks and neighborhoods, and exploring why and how media portrayals of disasters can distort authentic experience. Doheny-Farina begins by discussing the disaster and tracing the origins of the storm. He then goes back two hundred years to tell how this particular electric grid was built, showing us the sacrifices people made to create the grids that (usually) connect us to one another. Today's power grid, says Doheny-Farina, has become more vulnerable than we realize, as demand begins to outstrip capacity in urban centers around the nation. His book reminds us what those grids mean-both positively and negatively-to our electronically saturated lives. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen Doheny-Farina , Abbott Gleason , William TaubmanPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780300089776ISBN 10: 0300089775 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 11 August 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAn enjoyable exploration of the complex relationship between a man, his town, and their moments of crisis, and the way this is reflected in the media. Robert Krulwich, correspondent, ABC News Author InformationStephen Doheny-Farina, professor of technical communications at Clarkson University, is also the author of The Wired Neighborhood (0 300 07434 4, pb. 10.95), published by Yale University Press. He is a frequent commentator on new kinds of media communications in newspapers, magazines, radio, and Web sites. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |