Conceptualisations de la Covid-19 : les monstres coronavirus comme avertisseurs, révélateurs et explorateurs

This article looks at COVID-19 Conceptualizations: Corona-Monsters as Warners, Revealers, and Explorers. The virus itself is a constant presence in the media. Its well-known digital representation, a grey sphere with red-brown outgrowths, was created by medical illustrators for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Inspiring awe and anxiety, it has become an icon, a simple and instantly recognizable representation, and a symbol for the wildly contagious virus that has put the world on hold. Since this image first emerged in January 2020, hundreds of others inspired by it have proliferated in the media. The article asks “What do these monster-icons and -symbols tell us?”