COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives (Routledge Research in Journalism)

__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. 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 2020–2021 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 healthcare, 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, and departments of public health, sociology, and social marketing. Cover 1 Half Title 4 Series 5 Title 6 Copyright 7 Dedication 8 Contents 10 List of figures 14 Foreword: Perceptions of pandemics: communicating about COVID-19 in international ecosystems 15 COVID-19 in global media: questions and challenges for health communication 22 Notes on editors 24 Notes on contributors 25 Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and international media—issues, challenges, and opportunities 34 Part I Cultural differences in communication and identity 54 1 Coronavirus response asymmetries in the Global North and Global South: new challenges and recommendations 56 2 Between declarations of war and praying for help: analyzing heads of states’ speeches from a cross-cultural point of view 66 3 Unsettled belongings in deglobalization: Chinese immigrants’ struggle for political identity by using transnational media in the COVID-19 pandemic 77 4 Framing the pandemic as a conflict between China and Taiwan: analysis of COVID-19 discourse on Taiwanese social media 88 5 Comparing coronavirus online searching and media reporting: alignment or disconnect? A big data analysis of media reportage and public information seeking in Nigeria 98 Part II Responses to regulation: media as instruments of social control or conflict/resistance 114 6 Imagining pandemic as a failure: writing, memory, and forgetting under COVID-19 in China 116 7 Arrest of the public interest or fight for public health in Serbia: contrasting roles of professional and citizen journalists 126 8 “We don’t want to cause public panic”: pandemic communication of the Indonesian Government responding to COVID-19 136 9 Pathological borders: how the coronavirus pandemic strengthened depictions of the Cyprus partition in the media and by the government 150 Part III Responses to regulation: media as instruments of cooperation and representation 160 10 Digital media and COVID-19 in the UK and India: challenges and constructive contributions 162 11 New Zealand’s success in tackling COVID-19: how Ardern’s government effectively used social media and consistent messaging during the global pandemic 172 12 Coronavirus pandemic: a historical handshake between the mainstream media and social media in response to COVID-19 in Vietnam 183 13 Bloggers against panic: Russian-speaking Instagram bloggers in China and Italy reporting about COVID-19 195 14 Reimagined communities in the fight against the invisible enemy: soccer and the national question in Spain 205 15 US nationwide COVID-19 newspaper coverage of state and local government responses: community structure theory and community “vulnerability” 215 16 Exploring the COVID-19 social media infodemic: health communication challenges and opportunities 229 Part IV Risk, space, and cyberattacks 244 17 Manufacturing fear: infodemics and scaremongering about coronavirus and Ebola epidemics on social media platforms in West Africa 246 18 Space matters in narrating the catastrophe: relational riskscapes of COVID-19, dominant discourses, and the example of Turkey 257 19 Risk society in the age of pandemics: disaster reporting in the media—Ebola and COVID-19 267 20 Abusing the COVID-19 pan(dem)ic: a perfect storm for online scams 282 Index 292 "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"-- Provided by publisher