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Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic: Transcultural Communication about SARS
Huiling Ding
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Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; GTC; MBN; MJCJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
In the past ten years, we have seen great changes in the ways government organisations 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, play in the communication process, points of contention within these processes, ... Read more
In the past ten years, we have seen great changes in the ways government organisations 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, play in the communication process, points of contention within these processes, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809333196
SKU
V9780809333196
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99-15
About Huiling Ding
Huiling Ding is an assistant professor of professional and technical communication at North Carolina State University. Her work has appeared in a number of journals, including Technical Communication Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, Written Communication, and Journal of Medical Humanities.
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