Influencers have monopolized media attention in recent years, the result of a long process
lasting two decades dating from the rise of blogging at the beginning of the twenty-first …

This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the 'next
pandemic'and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation …

In many countries, Sinophobia or discrimination against Chinese has taken place amid the
Covid-19 pandemic. While this wave of Sinophobia is popularly understood to be based on …

The outbreak of an influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in 2009 coincided with a severe global
financial downturn (2007–8). This paper examines the use of 'contagion'as a model for …

During disease outbreaks or pandemics, policy makers must convey information to the
public for informative purposes (eg, morbidity or mortality rates). They must also motivate …

Until the middle of the nineteenth century, quarantine laws in all Western European nations
mandated the detention of every inbound trader, traveller, soldier, sailor, merchant …

Financial contagion is often defined as the propagation of shocks among actors in markets,
while excessive correlation and interconnectivity of markets, actors or investment strategies …

The challenge for a psychology of crowds and collective behavior is to explain how large
numbers of people are, spontaneously, able to act together in patterned and socially …

In a digital world where the public's voice is growing increasingly strong, how can health
experts best exert influence to contain the global spread of infectious diseases? Digital …

The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness In 2012, an
interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that-based on their …