Ghosh The Virus Touch

Theorizing Epidemic Media
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2384-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

Bishnupriya Ghosh examines the media practices that inscribe and transmit data about infectious diseases and shape how we live with perpetual pandemics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ghosh, Bishnupriya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii
List of Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Epidemic Media 1
1. The Epidemic Episteme: Health as Multispecies Politics 35
2. The -Morphic Image: Visualizing the Virus 77
3. The Sensible Medium: Clinical Translations of Blood 113
4. The Multispecies Kinesthetic: Tracking Animal Host Movements 157
Conclusion: Media Theory (in a Pandemic) 199
Notes 211
Bibliography 255
Index 277

Über Autor(innen)

Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Media and Risk.