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Loving Ebola-chan: Internet memes in an epidemic:
Olivia Marcus,Merrill Singer +1 more
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This article provides a layered analysis of Ebola-chan, a visual cultural artifact of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak that involves discussion of the genesis of disaster humor in light of the changing world of the Internet, the history of anthropomorphism of disease, and the biosocial nature of an infectious disease epidemic.Abstract:
In this article, the authors provide a layered analysis of Ebola-chan, a visual cultural artifact of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak. Rather than considering her as a two-dimensional anime character (...read more
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
TL;DR: After the events of September 11, 2001, I resigned myself to the fact that the lives of innocent men and women in the United States were under threat.
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Epidemics (Especially Ebola)
TL;DR: Anthropology's response to the West African Ebola epidemic was one of the most rapid and expansive anthropological interventions to a global health emergency in the discipline's history as mentioned in this paper, which takes an inclusive approach to anthropological praxis by engaging with the work of non-anthropologists, including qualitative researchers, social workers, and allied experts.
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Funny but aversive: A large-scale survey of the emotional response to Covid-19 humor in the Italian population during the lockdown
TL;DR: A large-scale survey completed during the early stages of Italy's lockdown, the authors studied the appreciation (funniness and aversiveness) of different formats of Covid-19 humor shared on social media.
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Precision Global Health - The case of Ebola: a scoping review.
Nefti-Eboni Bempong,Rafael Luis Ruiz De Castaneda,Stefanie Schütte,Isabelle Bolon,Olivia Keiser,Gérard Escher,Antoine Flahault,Antoine Flahault +7 more
TL;DR: Digital technologies demonstrated their potential during the Ebola outbreak through more rapid diagnostics, more precise predictions and estimations, increased knowledge transfer, and raising situational awareness through mHealth and social media platforms such as Twitter and Weibo, but better integration into both citizen and health professionals’ communities is necessary.
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In tragoedia risus: Analysis of dark humour in post-terrorist attack discourse:
Marta Dynel,Fabio Im Poppi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, dark humour in Internet posts commenting on an online Italian newspaper report published by Il Fatto Quotidiano and devoted to the 2016 terrorist attack in Nice is examined.
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Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Ulrich Beck,Mark Ritter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Scott Lash and Brian Wynne describe living on the VOLCANO of CIVILIZATION -the Contours of the RISK SOCIETY and the Politics of Knowledge in the Risk Society.
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The Risk Society: Towards a new modernity
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Runaway World : How Globalisation is Reshaping our Lives Ed. 2
TL;DR: In Runaway World as discussed by the authors, Giddens includes an overview of the New World global marketplace, but goes beyond a conventional economic perspective to look at such larger issues as marriage, gender and the family.
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Runaway World: How Globalisation Is Reshaping Our Lives
TL;DR: Giddens as discussed by the authors evaluates the ever-increasing impact of globalization today, extending his arguments beyond the merely economic, and shows how our growing interdependence directly affects our everyday lives.
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The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology
TL;DR: In this paper, the deconstruction of received concepts about the body is discussed and three perspectives from which the body may be viewed: (1) as phenomenally experienced individual body-self; (2) as a social body, a natural symbol for thinking about relationships among nature, society, and culture; and (3) as body politic, an artifact of social and political control.