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Honors Project - Open Access
Abstract
The 2014 Ebola Virus Disease epidemic, unprecedented in magnitude, has been the focus of worldwide media attention. How does media coverage of the epidemic seize on anxieties of an interconnected world to reinforce longstanding perceptions of Africa as dangerous and chaotic? I compare this media coverage to the model Ebola "outbreak narrative," using critical discourse analysis to contextualize representations of Africa within an increasingly interconnected world. I argue that media coverage reproduces a constructed Western understanding of Africa that will persist long after the epidemic is brought under control.
Recommended Citation
Millear, Anoushka, "Retelling Ebola's "Outbreak Narrative" through Media Coverage of the 2014 West African Epidemic" (2015). Geography Honors Projects. 46.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/geography_honors/46
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