... virality remix video closet record-breaking ...

... Chapter 7 chronicles—week by week, milestone by milestone—how “Old Town Road” came to dominate 2019 pop culture and the charts. At the start of the year, Lil Nas X was still a closeted teenager living on his sister's couch; he was an independent recording artist trying to make his song go viral...

... into the origin story of “Old Town Road.” Lil Nas X built the song to go viral, and the chapter details include how a teenage Hill found the beat that formed its basis, why he chose cowboy/country music tropes, how the folkways of online comedy and meme culture pervaded the song, and how the rise of the social...

... In May 2020, scientists at the World Health Organization named COVID variants via letters of the Greek alphabet. Penny Siopis conjoins diseased celluloid with Greek mythology and the science of the viral in her film Celluloid Body to craft a figuring of an ill world in need of re-enchantment...

... to be reified and solidified at the international policy level and its traveling. To do so, the chapter critically analyzes the social media representation of homelessness (through a viral case), the implications and limitations of the Housing First policy model, and the response of governments in the aftermath...

.... population. In health planning scenarios, journalism, and fiction depicting such use of smallpox as a bioweapon, visions of American Indian viral susceptibility and Islamic terrorism buttressed a militarized logic of preemptive intervention against disease, which was spectacularly performed through the U.S...

... Since the introduction of effective treatment in 1996, people with HIV are increasingly viewed by the criminal justice and public health systems through the lens of their potential to infect, as viral vectors and inherent dangers to society. Contrary to the initial intent of these statutes, HIV...

... of homelessness (through a viral case), the implications and limitations of the Housing First policy model, and the response of governments in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic’s outburst. exposure cultural fact circulations of form Housing First COVID-19 ...

... by the criminal justice and public health systems through the lens of their potential to infect, as viral vectors and inherent dangers to society. Contrary to the initial intent of these statutes, HIV criminalization is furthering the spread of the virus. Reform is urgently needed to stem the tide of HIV...