Ruoyu Li – författare

Examining mainstream media on COVID-19 across China, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and by drawing from various critical theoretical traditions, this book seeks answers to key questions about the experience of living and dying under COVID-19.The COVID-19 pandemic has been conceived, narrated, and visualized as a numerical crisis and a statistical exception - from the proliferation of dashboards to the numbers of infections cited in news cycles, and the data literacy required to navigate the viral spread. How did these dashboards, along with other numerical images and narratives, condition the lived experience during COVID-19? Is that experience still shaping how we perceive and communicate about the world today? In this book, the authors explore pandemic power - a form of power that declares the beginning and end of the pandemic as a statistically calculable exception, and that works in tandem with a Dashboard worldview. It also argues that pandemic power has normalized a geospatial and biostatistical gaze, the military and political legacies of which constructed the pandemic as we have come to know it, and continued to invigorate its persisting afterlives.This book will benefit students, teachers, and scholars interested in media and critical studies of COVID-19, as well as anyone interested in the political theorization of the changing forms of power during and after the pandemic.

Examining mainstream media on COVID-19 across China, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and by drawing from various critical theoretical traditions, this book seeks answers to key questions about the experience of living and dying under COVID-19.The COVID-19 pandemic has been conceived, narrated, and visualized as a numerical crisis and a statistical exception - from the proliferation of dashboards to the numbers of infections cited in news cycles, and the data literacy required to navigate the viral spread. How did these dashboards, along with other numerical images and narratives, condition the lived experience during COVID-19? Is that experience still shaping how we perceive and communicate about the world today? In this book, the authors explore pandemic power - a form of power that declares the beginning and end of the pandemic as a statistically calculable exception, and that works in tandem with a Dashboard worldview. It also argues that pandemic power has normalized a geospatial and biostatistical gaze, the military and political legacies of which constructed the pandemic as we have come to know it, and continued to invigorate its persisting afterlives.This book will benefit students, teachers, and scholars interested in media and critical studies of COVID-19, as well as anyone interested in the political theorization of the changing forms of power during and after the pandemic.

Examining mainstream media on COVID-19 across China, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and by drawing from various critical theoretical traditions, this book seeks answers to key questions about the experience of living and dying under COVID-19.The COVID-19 pandemic has been conceived, narrated, and visualized as a numerical crisis and a statistical exception – from the proliferation of dashboards to the numbers of infections cited in news cycles, and the data literacy required to navigate the viral spread. How did these dashboards, along with other numerical images and narratives, condition the lived experience during COVID-19? Is that experience still shaping how we perceive and communicate about the world today? In this book, the authors explore pandemic power – a form of power that declares the beginning and end of the pandemic as a statistically calculable exception, and that works in tandem with a Dashboard worldview. It also argues that pandemic power has normalized a geospatial and biostatistical gaze, the military and political legacies of which constructed the pandemic as we have come to know it, and continued to invigorate its persisting afterlives.This book will benefit students, teachers, and scholars interested in media and critical studies of COVID-19, as well as anyone interested in the political theorization of the changing forms of power during and after the pandemic.

The Chinese Perspectives on Human Rights and Good Governance series reviews various aspects of human rights and good governance in China, including international human rights standards, specific substantive rights protection and rule of law, as well as constitutionalism, especially in the context of contemporary China. Its aim is to stimulate discussion on these and related topics, with a focus on international standards whenever these are applicable and relevant to China. In this first volume in the series, the contributors adopt different disciplinary approaches to look at China both in the context of its internal constraints and as a global player in the overall development of human rights. Where is China headed in the near future? Does Chinese culture stand in contradiction to human rights? Is the rule of law alien to Chinese society? Can China move ahead without political reforms? In this thought-provoking volume, leading Chinese and Western scholars offer analysis of these issues, also with reference to Chinese history and contemporary culture.