Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty
辐射性基础设施：媒体、环境与不确定性文化
Authors: Rahul Mukherjee （拉胡尔·慕克吉）
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2020
Pages: 288
About Book:
In Radiant Infrastructures Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India—what he calls radiant infrastructures—creates environmental publics: groups of activists, scientists, and policy makers who use media to influence public opinion. In documentaries, lifestyle television shows, newspapers, and Bollywood films, and through other forms of media (including radiation-sensing technologies), these publics articulate contesting views about the relationships between modernity, wireless signals, and nuclear power.
From testimonies of cancer patients who live close to cell towers to power plant operators working to contain information about radiation leaks and health risks, discussions in the media show how radiant infrastructures are at once harbingers of optimism about India's development and emitters of potentially carcinogenic radiation. In tracing these dynamics, Mukherjee expands understandings of the relationship between media and infrastructure and how people make sense of their everyday encounters with technology and the environment.
关于书籍
在《辐射性基础设施》中，拉胡尔·慕克吉探讨了印度媒体对核电站与手机天线的报道——他称之为辐射性基础设施——如何创造了环境公众：即利用媒体影响舆论的活动家、科学家与政策制定者群体。在纪录片、生活方式电视节目、报纸、宝莱坞电影以及其他媒介形式（包括辐射传感技术）中，这些公众表达了关于现代性、无线信号与核电之间关系的竞争性观点。
从居住在基站附近的癌症患者的证词，到努力控制辐射泄漏与健康风险信息的电厂运营商，媒体中的讨论显示了辐射性基础设施如何同时作为印度发展乐观前景的预兆与潜在致癌辐射的发射体。通过追溯这些动态，慕克吉拓展了对媒介与基础设施关系的理解，以及人们如何理解他们与技术及环境的日常遭遇。
About Author：
Rahul Mukherjee is Dick Wolf Assistant Professor of Television and New Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
关于作者
拉胡尔·慕克吉（Rahul Mukherjee）是宾夕法尼亚大学电视与新媒体研究助理教授。
编译：刘鑫
