Mobile phone masts, social rationalities and risk: negotiating lay perspectives on technological hazards risk

Risk perception

• risk knowledge

Endpoint

• non-expert understandings of risks, personal experience, social context, multiple information sources, risk comparisons

Considered exposure sources

• • 50/60 Hz
  • magnetic field
  • also other exposures without EMF
• • power transmission line
  • microw. oven/heating device
  • mobile communications
  • mobile phone
  • mobile phone base station

Investigated group

37 participants took part in a survey in UK in 2004.