Traces of Fukushima Global Events, Networked Media and Circulating Emotions /

• Main Authors: Valaskivi, Katja (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Rantasila, Anna (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tanaka, Mikihito (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kunelius, Risto (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Communication.; Mass media.; Globalization.; Digital media.; Political science.; Media and Communication.; Media Sociology.; Digital/New Media.; Governance and Government.

This book explores the mediated aftermath and remembrance of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster through three crucibles: time, space and emotion. Through an ambitious and innovative combination of theoretical and methodological approaches, the book discusses how meanings, emotions and inter...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Tracing the Meanings of Fukushima
• Part I - Time
• Dealing with the Disaster - The Live Media Event
• Temporal Affordances in the Networked Remembering of Fukushima
• Part II - Space
• Towards a Geography of Mediated Affect: Discursive Spaces and Emotional Dynamics
• Social Media and Ambient Social Distance
• Part III -Emotion
• The Global Circulation of Affect - The Case of Iodide Tablets
• Affective Entanglements of Expertise - The Finnish Case
• Conclusion: Time, Space and Emotion in Tracing Fukushima.