| Pandemics and the Media Contributor(s): Cottle, Simon (Other), Levina, Marina (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433115514 ISBN-13: 9781433115516 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $48.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Performing Arts | Television - General - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
| Dewey: 362.104 |
| LCCN: 2014024884 |
| Series: Global Crises and the Media |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.7" (0.55 lbs) 148 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
