Pandemics and the Media
Seiten
2014
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New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-1551-6 (ISBN)
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-1551-6 (ISBN)
Offering a comprehensive analysis of mediated representations of global pandemics, this book engages with the construction, management, and classification of difference in the global context of a pandemic, to address what it means – culturally, politically, and economically – to live in an infected, diseased body. Marina Levina argues that mediated representations are essential in translating and making sense of difference as a category of subjectivity and as a mode of organizing and distributing change. Using textual analysis of media texts on pandemics and disease, she illustrates how they represent a larger mediascape that drafts stories of global instabilities and global health. Levina explains how the stories we tell about disease matter; that the media is instrumental in constructing and disseminating these stories; and that mediated narratives of pandemics are rooted in global flows of policies, commerce, and populations. Pandemics are, by definition, global crises.
Marina Levina (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Memphis. She is co-editor of Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader (2013) and Post-Global Network and Everyday Life (2012).
Contents: Keeping the Blood Flowing: Disease, Community, and Public Imaginaries – HIV/AIDS and Mediated Narratives of Morality and Citizenship –Vampires and HIV/AIDS in the Popular Imagination – Globalization, Pandemics, and the Problem of Security – Zombie Pandemic and Governance of Life Itself – Pandemics and Digital Media Technologies.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.10.2014 |
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Reihe/Serie | Global Crises and the Media ; 12 | Global Crises and the Media ; 12 |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 225 mm |
Gewicht | 250 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4331-1551-4 / 1433115514 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4331-1551-6 / 9781433115516 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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