Pandemics and the Media - Couverture souple

Levina, Marina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1433115514 ISBN 13 : 9781433115516

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2014

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1433115514
• ISBN 13: 9781433115516
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 164
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• Personne responsable: non disponible