Pandemics And The Media (Global Crises 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. 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.

• • Author: Marina Levina
• • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• • Publication Date: Oct 30, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 148 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1433115522
• • ISBN-13: 9781433115523