Abstract :
Over the last decade in India, intensive urbanisation, with the aid of the mass media, has unleashed a new culture of fear. Widespread access to TV, text messaging and the Internet have heightened and played upon individualsʹ anxieties. Ravi Sundaram describes how in Delhi, in particular, the media provided the catalyst for mass hysteria and psychosis during the summer of 2002. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords :
the collective is also corporeal , eastern Delhi , and the experience of the event , mass hysteria , the technologies of fear and danger , police crack team , The Sensorium 2 , Michel de Certeau , Globalisation , fear psychosis , Sarai Media Lab , political arrangements of the urban regime , Raqs media Collective , 2004 , the risk experts , 28.28N/77.15E::2001/02 (Co-Ordinates of Everyday Life in Delhi , Monica Narula , Anthony Vidler , risk prediction and media saturation , Delhi , the non-legal city , Delhi , Traffic , Partition of 1947 , 2002 , Mrityunjay Chatterjee , large-scale killing of Muslims , 2006 , The Practice of Everyday Life , Sarai Media Lab , assassination of Indira Ghandi , Walter Benjaminיs suggestion , monkey-like creature , Night Vision , dark space , The Sensorium 3 , The Sensorium 1 , massacre of Sikhs
