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Pandemics and the media / Marina Levina.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levina, Marina, 1975-
- Series:
- Global crises and the media ; 1947-2587 v. 12.
- Global crises and the media, 1947-2587 ; vol. 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease) and mass media.
- Epidemics--Press coverage.
- Epidemics.
- Digital media--Social aspects.
- Digital media.
- Blood--Symbolic aspects.
- Blood.
- Blood--Social aspects.
- Press coverage.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 148 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2015]
- Summary:
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Living in the Pandemic age
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-144) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781433115523
- 1433115522
- 9781433115516
- 1433115514
- OCLC:
- 881665716
- Publisher Number:
- 40024436408
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