ABSTRACT
In times of global health crises, local communities are connected regionally and globally to form an interlocking web of flows. This heightened connectivity is both material and imaginary. People, diseases, money, supplies, technologies, information, images, and imaginations travel around the globe at high speed. However, in such circumstances, global connectivity is not a flooding of homogeneous patterns of practices, influences and effects, but an activation of local politics in the specific sociocultural contexts of connected locales. This chapter examines the media politics of Hong Kong during the health crisis of SARS in 2003, with the aim of mapping the local manifestations of global connectivity.
