Perfect Contagion Machine: Digital Media, Scientific Evidence, and Emergent Outbreaks on Screen

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Perfect Contagion Machine: Digital Media, Scientific Evidence, and Emergent Outbreaks on Screen is written by Mikki Noel Kressbach and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 043808828X (ISBN 10) and 9780438088283 (ISBN 13).

This dissertation examines the recent archive of popular media documenting the spread of emergent outbreaks. As products of globalization, emergent infectious diseases (EID) arise from the shifting environmental conditions, transportation networks and social practices of an interconnected world. In an effort to represent these complex networked phenomena, popular films, television, and video games have turned to the rhetoric of science and medicine. Coupling medium-specific analysis with historical and anthropological work on science and medicine, I track the way digital medial communicate EID outbreaks. Rather than focusing on scientific or medical content, I analyze the intersection of media forms and scientific paradigms that produce epistemological impressions-the sense of science-that help us see, hear, and feel an emergent outbreak.