%0 Book
%A Marina Levina
%D 2012
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781453914069
%T Pandemics and the Media
%R 10.3726/978-1-4539-1406-9
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051110
%X 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.
%K disease, global health, media, global crises
%G English