Flirting with Disaster | John A. Riley | TEDxWoosongUniversity
John A. Riley |
TEDxWoosongUniversity
• November 2019
How do we rise to the challenges set by the fact that we can not only imagine but engineer our mass destruction? John Riley takes you through his childhood memories of the Challenger space shuttle disaster and various through various disaster-focused films to examine why we flirt with disaster and to consider how we use media representations to come to terms with large-scale tragedies.