Pandemics and the Media

Levina, Marina

doi:10.3726/978-1-4539-1406-9

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“…A surveillance studies orientation, in conversation with work that has theorized the mediated nature of pandemics (e.g., Levina 2015;Opitz 2017), could also direct attention to the algorithmic protocols shaping 6 See also Silva (2016) for a broader discussion of the capaciousness of racialized threat in the US context. 7 Such an approach is not unique to the Chinese context, of course.…”

Section: What Can Surveillance Studies Say?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Dis-ease Surveillance: How Might Surveillance Studies Address COVID-19?

French¹,

Monahan

2020

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We are currently in the midst of a global pandemic with the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 . While we do not know how this situation will unfold or resolve, we do have insight into how it fits within existing patterns and relations, particularly those pertaining to sociocultural constructions of (in)security, vulnerability, and risk. We can see evidence of surveillance dynamics at play with how bodies and pathogens are being measured, tracked, predicted, and regulated. We can grasp how threat is being racialized, how and why institutions are flailing, and how social media might be fueling social divisions. There is, in other words, a lot that our scholarly community could add to the conversation. In this rapid-response editorial, we provide an introduction to the framing devices of disease surveillance and discuss how a surveillance studies orientation could help us think critically about the present crisis and its possible aftermath. Epidemics, Pandemics, and OutbreaksPopular culture has furnished us with countless representations of the apocalyptic fallout stemming from uncontrolled communicable disease. For example, in the 1995 Wolfgang Petersen film, Outbreak-an adaptation of Richard Preston's The Hot Zone-Dustin Hoffman plays a US Army virologist given the harrowing task of tracking down the cause of a mysterious illness while his superiors attempt to suppress

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Section: What Can Surveillance Studies Say?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Dis-ease Surveillance: How Might Surveillance Studies Address COVID-19?

French¹,

Monahan

2020

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“…In order to reduce the potential problems with individual partners, research suggests that firms can multi-source, in other words contract with multiple vendors working together to deliver a particular service. This can provide various benefits such as access to diverse sources of knowledge and reduced commitment to a particular supplier; however, these benefits need to be weighed against costs of more difficult coordination and perhaps reduced trust from the suppliers (Levina & Su, 2008;Bapna, Barua, Mani, & Mehra, 2010). In addition, Steven, Dong, and Corsi (2014) find that outsourcing manufacturing to a smaller supplier base could lead to fewer recalls, but only at low levels of outsourcing.…”

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A Decisional Framework of Offshoring: Integrating Insights from 25 Years of Research to Provide Direction for Future*

Mihalache

2016

Decision Sciences

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Mirroring the growing trend for firms to support their operations by locating activities abroad, research on the practice of offshoring has increased considerably in recent years. However, despite the mounting research, understanding of the key factors influencing decision-making for offshoring remains surprisingly limited due to fragmentation. In this study, we synthesize and integrate insights from different research domains in order to develop a comprehensive decisional framework for key offshoring decisions. The integrative decisional framework is based on a systematic review of offshoring research published in the most influential management and business journals in the past 25 years. In addition to providing a snapshot of the state of research on decision-making for offshoring, this study aims to stimulate future research by identifying promising research opportunities. In particular, we propose that future research should use alternative theories to incorporate overlooked aspects of decision-making, integrate different theories to account for the interdependencies between decisions, and adopt a portfolio perspective that considers each decision as part of an overall offshoring strategy.

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“…Marina Levina (2015) embraces both the media and the pandemic conversations in her analyses of media pandemics. For her, the media is important in the proliferation of a risk-based narrative like zombies -we need to see the risk in order to anticipate and fear it (p. 87).…”

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Your Friendly Neighbourhood Zombie: Normalizing Monstrous Bodies Through Zombie Media

Wind¹

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Our deepest social fears and anxieties are often communicated through the zombie, but these readings aren't reflected in contemporary zombie media. Increasingly, we are producing a less scary, less threatening zombie -one that is simply struggling to navigate a society in which it doesn't fit. I begin to rectify the gap between zombie scholarship and contemporary zombie media by mapping the zombie's shift from "outbreak narratives" to normalized monsters. If the zombie no longer articulates social fears and anxieties, what purpose does it serve? Through the close examination of these "normalized" zombie media, I read the zombie as possessing a nonnormative body whose lived experiences reveal and reflect tensions of identity construction -a process that is muddy, in motion, and never easy. We may be done with the uncontrollable horde, but we're far from done with the zombie and its connection to us and society.

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Pandemics and the Media

Cited by 16 publications

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Dis-ease Surveillance: How Might Surveillance Studies Address COVID-19?

Dis-ease Surveillance: How Might Surveillance Studies Address COVID-19?

A Decisional Framework of Offshoring: Integrating Insights from 25 Years of Research to Provide Direction for Future*

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Zombie: Normalizing Monstrous Bodies Through Zombie Media

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