Collision Course: Don’t Look Up and the Politicization of Science in America
By David F. Eisler On last Christmas Eve, Netflix released the star-studded satirical disaster movie Don’t Look Up about two...
Tagged: COVID-19
Falling into the Crevice – Covid-19 Pandemic Puts Spotlight on Housing Disparities in the U.S. Capital
by Judith Keller and Lauren Rever “The crisis isn’t just that we need rent cancelled. Just like before the crisis...
The Politicization of Epidemics in the United States: Comparing the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic to the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
by Christian Allred A brief survey of the U.S. response to COVID-19 can elicit the resigned realization that the country...
Viral Media: The COVID-19 Infodemic, Black Lives Matter, and the Future of the Digital Public Sphere
By Lee A. Flamand, PhD As the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc and altered patterns of daily life for people...
The Current Wows and Woes of Silicon Valley – Big Tech, the Gig Economy and its Workers
By Natalie Rauscher Last year, I published the article Welcome to Uber Land on the gig economy giant Uber. Uber...
Sticking Together – Communal Coping with COVID-19 Through Language
By Aline Schmidt Language is sticky. It sticks labels to the objects in our world. It binds things, people and...
Faking Grassroots – Tea Party-Style Astroturfing in Times of Corona
By Nikolas A. Mariani “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery – Thomas Jefferson” read one large sign in Lansing,...
Who’s Playing the Blame Game? – An Analysis of Media Framing of China and COVID-19 in The New York Times
By Shasha Lin and Hien Le Pham On January 6, 2020, The New York Times (hereafter “NYT”) published its first...