Bill Wasik: 2 books
Rabid
A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim—and, with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It’s a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from...
And Then There's This
How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Breaking news, fresh gossip, tiny scandals, trumped-up crises-every day we are distracted by a culture that rings our doorbell and runs away. Stories spread wildly and die out in mere days, to be replaced by still more stories with ever shorter life spans. Through the Internet the news cycle has been...