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| − | [[Adam Burgess]] is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM]] network. He has written for [[Spiked]]<ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CADC3.htm Accounting for the panic] Spiked website acc 29 Oct 2011</ref> | + | [[Adam Burgess]] is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM]] network. He has written for [[Spiked]],<ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CADC3.htm Accounting for the panic] Spiked website acc 29 Oct 2011</ref> is married to another member of the network, [[Tracey Brown]], and has spoken at the [[London Legal Salon]]. <ref>[http://londonlegalsalon.blogspot.com/ Adam Burgess] London Legal Salon blog acc 29 Oct 2011</ref> |
| − | Burgess is a senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent in the same department as the network guru [[Frank Furedi]]. Burgess neglects to mention any of the elements of the network on his page on the University of Kent Website.<ref>University of Kent [http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/burgess.htm Staff | Dr Adam Burgess], accessed February 2007</ref> His work on risk and mobile phones - taking the line that there is no risk - has been featured on Spiked online. This formed part of a 'debate' on 'Mobile Society' sponsored by [[O2]] the mobile phone network.<ref> Adam Burgess [http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CADC3.htm Accounting for the panic] Spiked Online, [19-Oct-2005] The mobile phone scare is a lesson in how journalists and policymakers should not react to concerns about a new technology. | + | Burgess is a senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent in the same department as the network guru [[Frank Furedi]]. Burgess neglects to mention any of the elements of the network on his page on the University of Kent Website.<ref>University of Kent [http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/burgess.htm Staff | Dr Adam Burgess], accessed February 2007</ref> His work on risk and mobile phones - taking the line that there is no risk - has been featured on Spiked online. This formed part of a 'debate' on 'Mobile Society' sponsored by [[O2]] the mobile phone network.<ref> Adam Burgess [http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CADC3.htm Accounting for the panic] Spiked Online, [19-Oct-2005] </ref> The mobile phone scare is presented as a lesson in how journalists and policymakers should not react to concerns about a new technology. |
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Revision as of 18:02, 29 October 2011
Adam Burgess is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. He has written for Spiked,[1] is married to another member of the network, Tracey Brown, and has spoken at the London Legal Salon. [2]
Burgess is a senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent in the same department as the network guru Frank Furedi. Burgess neglects to mention any of the elements of the network on his page on the University of Kent Website.[3] His work on risk and mobile phones - taking the line that there is no risk - has been featured on Spiked online. This formed part of a 'debate' on 'Mobile Society' sponsored by O2 the mobile phone network.[4] The mobile phone scare is presented as a lesson in how journalists and policymakers should not react to concerns about a new technology.
Contact
- Staff profile: Adam Burgess
Publications
The contemporary emergence of health concerns related to mobile phones : a study of the origins and diffusion of mobile phone fears and anti-EMF campaigns by Burgess, Adam. Published 2001 University of Kent website, acc 10 Jan 2011
Notes
- ↑ Accounting for the panic Spiked website acc 29 Oct 2011
- ↑ Adam Burgess London Legal Salon blog acc 29 Oct 2011
- ↑ University of Kent Staff | Dr Adam Burgess, accessed February 2007
- ↑ Adam Burgess Accounting for the panic Spiked Online, [19-Oct-2005]
