Covid-19 in Media as an Alien: The Topos of “Threat from Out There”
Covid-19 in Media as an Alien: The Topos of “Threat from Out There”
Author(s): Martin Charvát, Jan JirákSubject(s): Media studies, Health and medicine and law, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie
Keywords: Biopolitics; Digital Media; Disinformation; Media Narration; Media Representation; Pandemics; Visualization;
Summary/Abstract: In the paper we would like to point out a specific tendency present in contemporary journalism, which has been strengthen during the COVID-19 pandemics: namely (a) usage of digital technologies in representing the virus itself and the global/local situation concerning the spread of the virus and (b) building up the narration, which struggles to explain the situation ‘with covid’. Our argument is that the narrative of virus invasion follows the pattern of unknown thread very similar to the narration of classic Ridley Scott’s feature movie Alien (1979) using the available representational technologies (as Scott used in 1970s).
Journal: Megatrendy a médiá
- Issue Year: 8/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 81-88
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English