Rhetoric of a global epidemic : transcultural communication about SARS / / Huiling Ding
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| Autore: |
Ding Huiling
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| Titolo: |
Rhetoric of a global epidemic : transcultural communication about SARS / / Huiling Ding
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| Pubblicazione: | Carbondale, Illinois : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1962 |
| Soggetto topico: | SARS (Disease) |
| Communication in public health | |
| World health - Forecasting | |
| Epidemics - Prevention | |
| Classificazione: | LAN015000LAN004000MED022090MED036000 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Transcultural Flows, Communication, and Rhetorics during a Global Epidemic; 1. Critical Contextualized Methodology for Transcultural Communication Study; 2. Risk Communication about an Emerging Epidemic in Guangdong, China; 3. Rhetorics of Alternative Media, Censorship, and SARS; 4. Constructing SARS: The United States, China, and WHO; 5. Transnational Risk Management of SARS and H1N1 Flu via Travel Advisories; Conclusion: Transcultural Communication and Rhetoric about Global Epidemics |
| Appendix: Additional Notes on Methodology and SourcesNotes; Works Cited; Index; Author Biography; Back Cover | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In the past ten years, we have seen great changes in the ways government organizations and media respond to and report on emerging global epidemics. The first outbreak to garner such attention was SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). In Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic, Huiling Ding uses SARS to explore how various cultures and communities made sense of the epidemic and communicated about it. She also investigates the way knowledge production and legitimation operate in global epidemics, the roles that professionals and professional communicators, as well as individual citizens, |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rhetoric of a global epidemic |
| ISBN: | 0-8093-3320-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815843403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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