The care and feeding of 9-1-1 infrastructure: dispatcher culture as media work and infrastructural transformation.

Emergency dispatchers who receive 9-1-1 calls and initiate various emergency response services perform media work that produces 9-1-1 as an infrastructural system for the public at large. This should be considered media work because it centres the interpretation of media content and navigation of mu...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Cultural Studies Vol. 35; no. 4/5; pp. 792 - 814
Autor principal: Ellcessor, Elizabeth
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=152096644&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: hlh
    uiTerm: 152096644
    longDbName: Humanities International Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        09502386
        05G
      jtl: Cultural Studies
      issn: 09502386
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Jul-Sep2021
      vid: 35
      iid: 4/5
      pid: 377
      pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd
    artinfo:
      ui:
        152096644
        10.1080/09502386.2021.1895249
      ppf: 792
      ppct: 22
      formats:
        fmt:
          – @attributes:
              type: T
          – @attributes:
              type: P
              size: 1.7MB
      tig:
        atl: The care and feeding of 9-1-1 infrastructure: dispatcher culture as media work and infrastructural transformation.
      aug:
        au: Ellcessor, Elizabeth
        affil: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
      su:
        Telephone emergency reporting systems
        Emergency communication systems
        Public safety
        First responders
        Multimedia systems
        Digital media
      sug:
        subj:
          Telephone emergency reporting systems
          Emergency communication systems
          Public safety
          First responders
          Multimedia systems
          Digital media
      keyword:
        9-1-1
        culture
        Emergency
        infrastructure
        media work
        telephone
      ab: Emergency dispatchers who receive 9-1-1 calls and initiate various emergency response services perform media work that produces 9-1-1 as an infrastructural system for the public at large. This should be considered media work because it centres the interpretation of media content and navigation of multimedia systems. While a nontraditional site for the study of media work, emergency dispatch can be studied through methods of media industry and infrastructure studies in order to understand how these workers are shaped by and shaping cultural attitudes toward new media, labour, and emergency itself. Using interviews, observations, job advertisements, and management literatures, this article traces the values and practices of dispatcher culture through the sites of 'the job', 'the console', and 'the community.' Through dispatchers' media work, the logistical infrastructure of 9-1-1 is gradually transformed.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: Y
      custom: Copyright of Cultural Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
      item: Cultural Studies
      holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      dt:
        @attributes:
          year: 2021
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N