Media Virus!

Media Virus!
Author: Douglas Rushkoff
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2010-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307775577

The most virulent viruses today are composed of information. In this information-driven age, the easiest way to manipulate the culture is through the media. A hip and caustically humorous McLuhan for the '90s, culture watcher Douglas Rushkoff now offers a fascinating expose of media manipulation in today's age of instant information.

The Supernatural Media Virus

The Supernatural Media Virus
Author: Rahel Sixta Schmitz
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2021-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3839455596

Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses, academic disciplines, and fiction genres. In this book, Rahel Sixta Schmitz defines and discusses a trope recurring in Gothic fiction: the supernatural media virus. This trope comprises the confluence of the virus, the network, and a deep, underlying media anxiety. This study shows how Gothic narratives such as House of Leaves or The Ring feature the supernatural media virus to negotiate as well as actively shape imaginations of the network society and the dangers of a globalized, technologized world.

The Panic Virus

The Panic Virus
Author: Seth Mnookin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2012-01-03
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1439158657

A searing account of how vaccine opponents have used the media to spread their message of panic, despite no scientific evidence to support them.