The Grid and the Village
Subtitle: Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780300089776
Subjects: Impact of science & technology on society; Media studies; Power generation & distribution; Climatology; Electric Power Systems; Science; Nature; Science/Mathematics; Central America; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; USA; Essays; Natural Disasters; United States - State & Local - General; Nature / Essays; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Electricity; Case studies; Cold weather conditions; Electric power distribution; Electric power failures; History; Ice storms; New York (State); Pottsdam Region; Saint Lawrence County; Social aspects
Description: "In January 1998 a massive ice storm descended on New York, New England, and eastern Canada. It crushed power grids from the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic, forcing thousands of people into public shelters and leaving millions of others in their homes without electricity. In this book Stephen Doheny Farina presents an insider's account of these events, describing the destruction of the electric network in his own village and the emergence of the face-to-face interactions that took its place.

His stories examine the impact of electronic communications on community, illuminating the relation between electronic and human connections and between networks and neighborhoods, and exploring why and how media portrayals of disasters can distort authentic experience."--BOOK JACKET.