Cet article examine les problemes poses par les representations visuelles des enfants en attente ... more Cet article examine les problemes poses par les representations visuelles des enfants en attente d'adoption. Les agences d'adoption internationale proposent sur internet des archives d'images d'enfants disponibles, classes, tries et diagnostiques medicalement. L'A. examine plus particulierement l'utilisation des images pour l'identification du syndrome alcoolique foetal (Fetal Alcohol Syndrom, FAS)
The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, Dec 28, 2012
This essay examines the use of social media as platforms for public education about pandemics, fo... more This essay examines the use of social media as platforms for public education about pandemics, focusing on the case of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Lisa Cartwright considers the 2009 H1N1 outbreak and its designation as a pandemic by organizations like the World Health Organization and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, comparing the public social media management of this pandemic to the media campaigns mounted to address previous outbreaks and pandemics. Using the example of hepatitis C (HCV), a pandemic of long duration managed without the same sensibility of urgency and crisis that marked the H1N1 campaigns, Cartwright analyzes the ways in which notions of temporality inform the pandemic concept, considering the mediation of HCV against the example of the heavy mediation of H1N1 in campaigns which were both market-oriented and driven by anxiety about pandemic futurity. This approach is particularly troubling in that it tends to miss pandemics like hepatitis C with a tendency to manifest slowly and imperceptibly, with an invisible but massive presence that is compounded by public health inattention. It is proposed that the chronicity of the hepatitis C virus does not match the the temporality of social media, which is immediate and fast, and of health communication, which is also organized around immediacy and emergence, and also futurity and potential emergency. Cartwright argues that we need to examine and rethink the social mediation of pandemics with attention to the respective temporal and visual conditions of the lives of viruses and their pandemics. More generally, a critique is put forth of the approach in public health characterized as pandemic futurity in which pandemic announcement serves as pandemic prevention, and anticipatory disease surveillance techniques inform the social mediation of designated outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. Keywords: Social media; pandemic; H1N1; Hepatitis C; public health; health communication; emergence diseases
In this article, I consider how communities form around health care advo-cacy and activism. My co... more In this article, I consider how communities form around health care advo-cacy and activism. My concern is the place of visual media in the politics of breast cancer. Art photography and film are considered against main-stream images and media campaigns focusing on breast ...
Copyright 1995 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota Chapter 2, "'Exper... more Copyright 1995 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota Chapter 2, "'Experiments of Destruction': Cinematic Inscriptions of Physiology," was previously published in slightly different form in Representations 40 (Fall 1992); copyright 1992 by the Regents of the University of ...
The modeling of (auto)immunity on the binary of self/other and the paradigm of (auto)immune respo... more The modeling of (auto)immunity on the binary of self/other and the paradigm of (auto)immune responses as conditional (in)tolerance has been subject to criticism and rebuttal for some time, becoming replaced by network, open, and distributed models. Yet (in)tolerance, long operative in biopolitical strategies of state power (Brown 2009), continues to function in immune models through the normalizing strategies of anatomopolitics, at the scale of the individual biological body. This essay moves through the narratives about autoimmune experience and affect, considering especially anger and distress in the face of autoimmunity in diagnosis, treatment, and self-care during the early 2020s.
Of what, exactly, is the Shepard Fairey 'HOPE'poster a copy? Early in 2009, the Associa... more Of what, exactly, is the Shepard Fairey 'HOPE'poster a copy? Early in 2009, the Associated Press (AP) made headlines by threatening to sue graphic artist Shepard Fairey for infringement of copyright, claiming that he had reproduced a photograph taken by one of ...
Cet article examine les problemes poses par les representations visuelles des enfants en attente ... more Cet article examine les problemes poses par les representations visuelles des enfants en attente d'adoption. Les agences d'adoption internationale proposent sur internet des archives d'images d'enfants disponibles, classes, tries et diagnostiques medicalement. L'A. examine plus particulierement l'utilisation des images pour l'identification du syndrome alcoolique foetal (Fetal Alcohol Syndrom, FAS)
The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, Dec 28, 2012
This essay examines the use of social media as platforms for public education about pandemics, fo... more This essay examines the use of social media as platforms for public education about pandemics, focusing on the case of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Lisa Cartwright considers the 2009 H1N1 outbreak and its designation as a pandemic by organizations like the World Health Organization and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, comparing the public social media management of this pandemic to the media campaigns mounted to address previous outbreaks and pandemics. Using the example of hepatitis C (HCV), a pandemic of long duration managed without the same sensibility of urgency and crisis that marked the H1N1 campaigns, Cartwright analyzes the ways in which notions of temporality inform the pandemic concept, considering the mediation of HCV against the example of the heavy mediation of H1N1 in campaigns which were both market-oriented and driven by anxiety about pandemic futurity. This approach is particularly troubling in that it tends to miss pandemics like hepatitis C with a tendency to manifest slowly and imperceptibly, with an invisible but massive presence that is compounded by public health inattention. It is proposed that the chronicity of the hepatitis C virus does not match the the temporality of social media, which is immediate and fast, and of health communication, which is also organized around immediacy and emergence, and also futurity and potential emergency. Cartwright argues that we need to examine and rethink the social mediation of pandemics with attention to the respective temporal and visual conditions of the lives of viruses and their pandemics. More generally, a critique is put forth of the approach in public health characterized as pandemic futurity in which pandemic announcement serves as pandemic prevention, and anticipatory disease surveillance techniques inform the social mediation of designated outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. Keywords: Social media; pandemic; H1N1; Hepatitis C; public health; health communication; emergence diseases
In this article, I consider how communities form around health care advo-cacy and activism. My co... more In this article, I consider how communities form around health care advo-cacy and activism. My concern is the place of visual media in the politics of breast cancer. Art photography and film are considered against main-stream images and media campaigns focusing on breast ...
Copyright 1995 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota Chapter 2, "'Exper... more Copyright 1995 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota Chapter 2, "'Experiments of Destruction': Cinematic Inscriptions of Physiology," was previously published in slightly different form in Representations 40 (Fall 1992); copyright 1992 by the Regents of the University of ...
The modeling of (auto)immunity on the binary of self/other and the paradigm of (auto)immune respo... more The modeling of (auto)immunity on the binary of self/other and the paradigm of (auto)immune responses as conditional (in)tolerance has been subject to criticism and rebuttal for some time, becoming replaced by network, open, and distributed models. Yet (in)tolerance, long operative in biopolitical strategies of state power (Brown 2009), continues to function in immune models through the normalizing strategies of anatomopolitics, at the scale of the individual biological body. This essay moves through the narratives about autoimmune experience and affect, considering especially anger and distress in the face of autoimmunity in diagnosis, treatment, and self-care during the early 2020s.
Of what, exactly, is the Shepard Fairey 'HOPE'poster a copy? Early in 2009, the Associa... more Of what, exactly, is the Shepard Fairey 'HOPE'poster a copy? Early in 2009, the Associated Press (AP) made headlines by threatening to sue graphic artist Shepard Fairey for infringement of copyright, claiming that he had reproduced a photograph taken by one of ...
This paper considers the place of photography and the problematic of distinguishing visual signif... more This paper considers the place of photography and the problematic of distinguishing visual signifiers of pathology from those of cultural identity in the screening, diagnosis, and social management of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome following the formal introduction of this medical classification in 1973 and through the digital turn in the late 1990s. I
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