Pandemics and the Media (Paperback, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Global Crises and the Media, 12
Release date:	October 2014
First published:	2015
Authors:	Marina Levina
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	148
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-1551-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > Journalistic style guides Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-1551-4
Barcode:	9781433115516

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