ABSTRACT
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.
The book evaluates unique civic challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities for media worldwide, exploring pandemic social norms that media promote or discourage, and how media serve as instruments of social control and resistance, or of cooperation and representation. These chapters raise significant questions about the roles mainstream or citizen journalists or netizens play or ought to play, enlightening audiences successfully about scientific information on COVID-19 in a pandemic that magnifies social inequality and unequal access to health care, challenging popular beliefs about health and disease prevention and the role of government while the entire world pays close attention.
This book will be of interest to students and faculty of communication studies and journalism, departments of public health, sociology, and social marketing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |19 pages
Introduction
part I|59 pages
Cultural differences in communication and identity
chapter 1|10 pages
Coronavirus response asymmetries in the Global North and Global South
chapter 2|11 pages
Between declarations of war and praying for help
chapter 3|11 pages
Unsettled belongings in deglobalization
chapter 4|10 pages
Framing the pandemic as a conflict between China and Taiwan
chapter 5|15 pages
Comparing coronavirus online searching and media reporting
part II|46 pages
Responses to regulation
chapter 6|10 pages
Imagining pandemic as a failure
chapter 7|10 pages
Arrest of the public interest or fight for public health in Serbia
chapter 8|14 pages
“We don't want to cause public panic”
chapter 9|10 pages
Pathological borders
part III|84 pages
Responses to regulation
chapter 10|10 pages
Digital media and COVID-19 in the UK and India
chapter 11|11 pages
New Zealand's success in tackling COVID-19
chapter 12|12 pages
Coronavirus pandemic
chapter 13|10 pages
Bloggers against panic
chapter 14|10 pages
Reimagined communities in the fight against the invisible enemy
chapter 15|14 pages
US nationwide COVID-19 newspaper coverage of state and local government responses
chapter 16|15 pages
Exploring the COVID-19 social media infodemic
part IV|48 pages
Risk, space, and cyberattacks