Pandemics and the Media

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.

Autorentext

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).

Inhalt
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.