From Bhopal to the informating of environmentalism: risk communication in historical perspective.
This essay describes the development of information technology and culture in the environmental field since the 1980s and how this has led to new understandings of risk communication. The essay also describes how environmental information systems operate as instruments of power, in the way they configure and provide access to knowledge, in the way they manage uncertainty, and in the way they build in and project particular modes of subjectivity. The goal is to provide a brief yet compelling glimpse into the "informating of environmentalism."
Department of Science and Technology Studies, 5408 Sage Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180. fortuk@rpi.edu
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