COVID-19 in International Media

Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Responses is one of the first books uniting an international team of scholars to investigate how media address critical social, political, and health issues connected to the 2020-21 COVID-19 outbreak.

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John C. Pollock is Professor of Health and Human Rights Communication at the Departments of Communication Studies and Public Health, The College of New Jersey. ****

Douglas A. Vakoch is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Clinical Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies.

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Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Responses is one of the first books uniting an international team of scholars to investigate how media address critical social, political, and health issues connected to the 2020-21 COVID-19 outbreak.

Inhalt

Foreword: Perceptions of Pandemics: Communicating about COVID-19 in International Ecosystems Preface: COVID-19 in Global Media: Questions and Challenges for Health Communication Introduction: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Media: Issues and Opportunities Part 1: Cultural Differences in Communication and Identity 1. Coronavirus Response Asymmetries in the Global North and Global South: New Challenges and Recommendations 2. Between Declarations of War and Praying for Help: Analyzing Heads of State´s Speeches from a Cross-cultural Point of View 3. Unsettled Belongings and Deglobalization: Transnational Media Complicate Chinese Immigrants' Struggle for Political Identity in the COVID-19 Pandemic 4.Framing the Pandemic as a Conflict between China and Taiwan: Analysis of COVID-19 Discourse on Taiwanese Social Media 5. Comparing Coronavirus Online Searching and Media Reporting in Nigeria: Alignment or Disconnect? A Big Data Analysis of Media Reportage of Coronavirus in Nigeria Part 2: Responses to Regulation: Media as Instruments of Social Control or Conflict/Resistance 6. Imagining Pandemic as a Failure: Writing, Memory and Forgetting under COVID-19 in China 7. Arrest of the Public Interest or Fight for Public Health in Serbia: Contrasting Roles of Professional and Citizen Journalists 8. "We don't want to cause public panic": Pandemic Communication of Indonesian Government in Responding to COVID-19 9. Pathological Borders: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Strengthened Depictions of the Cyprus Partition in the Media and Government Part 3: Responses to Regulation: Media as Instruments of Cooperation and Representation 10. Digital Media, Society, and COVID-19 in the UK and India: Challenges and Constructive Contributions 11. New Zealand's Success in Tackling COVID-19: How Ardern's Government Effectively Used Social Media and Consistent Messaging During the Global Pandemic 12. Coronavirus Pandemic: A Historical Handshake between the Mainstream Media and Social Media in Response to COVID-19 in Vietnam 13. Bloggers against Panic: Russian-speaking Instagram Bloggers in China and Italy Reporting about COVID-2019 14. Re-imagined Communities in the Fight against the Invisible Enemy: Soccer and the National Question in Spain 15. US Nationwide COVID-19 Newspaper Coverage of State and Local Government Responses: Community Structure Theory and a "Vulnerability" Pattern 16. Exploring the COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic: Health Communication Challenges and Opportunities Part 4: Risk, Space, and Cyberattacks 17. Manufacturing Fear: Infodemics and Scare Mongering on Coronavirus and Ebola Epidemics on Social Media Platforms in West Africa 18. Space Matters in Anticipating the Catastrophe: Relational Riskscapes of COVID-19, Dominant Discourses, and the Example of Turkey 19. Presenting Disasters in the MediaEbola and COVID-19: Fear and the "Risk Society" in the Age of Pandemics 20. Abusing the COVID-19 Pan(dem)ic: A Perfect Storm for Online Scams