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Media Framing Xylazine as a “Zombie Drug” Is Amplifying Stigma Onto People Who Use Drugs

International Journal of Drug Policy
Amid increasing efforts to understand xylazine-associated harms, examining the potentially catastrophic role of stigma resulting from media outlets framing xylazine as the "zombie drug" is imperative. Zombies are cinematically depicted as soulless, dangerous, and required to be killed off entirely for public safety, making the "zombie" analogy ...
Megan K Reed, Jeanette Bowles
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The Sounds of Zombie Media

2021
This chapter investigates how do-it-yourself (DIY) cultures in New York City and Berlin make sound and music with “zombie media,” or physical materials rescued from obsolescence that are recycled, repurposed, and reanimated. In situating DIY repurposing practices within a context of conspicuous production, or the tendency to obsess over constant ...
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Zombie Media: Circuit Bending Media Archaeology into an Art Method

Leonardo, 2012
This text is an investigation into media culture, temporalities of media objects and planned obsolescence in the midst of ecological crisis and electronic waste. The authors approach the topic under the umbrella of media archaeology and aim to extend this historiographically oriented field of media theory into a methodology for contemporary artistic ...
Garnet Hertz, Jussi Parikka
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Between Two Funerals: Zombie Temporality and Media Ecology in Japan

positions: asia critique, 2021
AbstractThis article explores the popular shift to a media-ecological understanding in post-1960s Japan. Bookending its investigation with two actual funerals held for fictional characters in 1970 and 2007, it tracks the trope of death to map the increased interlocking of media temporality and everyday temporality in intensified media capitalism.
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Zombie Media: Transmission, Reproduction, and the Digital Dead

Cinema Journal, 2012
In zombie films, bodily phenomena of death, decay, and dismemberment are often closely aligned with the contingent traces of mediation, including film grain, distortion, and digital pixelation. Merging the technological and the physical in the frame of "zombie media," these films explore the breakdown of bodies, images, and meaning.
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Infection, Media, and Capitalism: From Early Modern Plagues to Postmodern Zombies

Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2010
Textual accounts of epidemic infection from that of Herodotus onward have developed a common discourse and a set of tropes that cut across centuries and cultures. As Elana Gomel summarizes, "This pattern comprises panic, dissolution of socioeconomic structures, and despair, succeeded by a makeshiftreturn to normality once the disease has run its course"
Stephanie Boluk, Wylie Lenz
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Pride and prejudice and zombies…and statistics: Effects of powerful female role-models in media on attitudes towards women, and female viewer anxiety

Current Psychology, 2020
At present, there have been a number of studies examining the sexualization of female characters in various media. However, most studies to date have not clearly delineated whether sexualized images or the presence of assertive versus passive female characters influences negative attitudes toward women in viewers, as well as female viewer anxiety.
Naser Mubarak, Christopher J. Ferguson
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The Zombie Apocalypse: The Viral Impact of Social Media Marketing on Health

Journal of Consumer Health On the Internet, 2013
Social media platforms Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook facilitate the communication and sharing of ideas across people and populations. Large corporations often leverage consumer impressions ascertained through viral, social media trends, and act on these data through marketing campaigns.
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Contagious Media: Zombie Criticism of ‘Real’ Space

2016
This chapter discusses contemporary perceptions of urban space and pop culture space, and by extension a redefinition of fiction and reality, as articulated by transmedia phenomena in New Horror. Although New Horror research often focuses on the cinematic medium, some of the most fascinating advances in the movement can be seen in other media.
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Media Clips: How Many People Can Fit on the National Mall? – Zombie Attack

The Mathematics Teacher, 2012
Students analyze items from the media to answer mathematical questions related to the article. Estimating the size of the crowd at the Obama inauguration leads to estimating skills and finding areas, whereas the Zombie epidemic leads to modeling infectious disease.
Chris J. Park, Heather K. Lye
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