Adam Burgess
Adam Burgess is a member of the LM network. He has written for Spiked and is married to another member of the network, Tracey Brown.
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.[1] 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.[2]
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
- ↑ University of Kent Staff | Dr Adam Burgess, accessed February 2007
- ↑ Adam Burgess 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.
