Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxxi, 267 pp.
Series: Routledge Research in Journalism
ISBN 978-1-00-318170-5 (ebook); 978-1-03-202066-2 (hbk)
"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." (Publisher description)
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Media: Issues and Opportunities / Lisa M. DeTora, Michael J. Klein, and John C. Pollock, 1
PART I. CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN COMMUNICATION AND IDENTITY
1 Coronavirus Response Asymmetries in the Global North and Global South: New Challenges and Recommendations / Phillip Santos, 23
2 Between Declarations of War and Praying for Help: Analyzing Heads of State´s Speeches from a Cross-cultural Point of View / Eika Auschner, Julia Heitsch, and Zully Paola Martínez Torres, 33
3 Unsettled Belongings and Deglobalization: Transnational Media Complicate Chinese Immigrants' Struggle for Political Identity in the COVID-19 Pandemic / Zhipeng Gao, 44
4 Framing the Pandemic as a Conflict between China and Taiwan: Analysis of COVID-19 Discourse on Taiwanese Social Media / Ling-Yi Huang, 55
5 Comparing Coronavirus Online Searching and Media Reporting in Nigeria: Alignment or Disconnect? A Big Data Analysis of Media Reportage of Coronavirus in Nigeria / Mutiu Iyanda Lasisi and Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele, 65
PART II. 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 / Yawen Li and Marius Meinhof, 83
7 Arrest of the Public Interest or Fight for Public Health in Serbia: Contrasting Roles of Professional and Citizen Journalists / Kristina Cendic, 93
8 "We don't want to cause public panic": Pandemic Communication of Indonesian Government in Responding to COVID-19 / Dyah Pitaloka and Nelly Martin-Anatias, 103
9 Pathological Borders: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Strengthened Depictions of the Cyprus Partition in the Media and Government / Daniele Nunziata, 117
PART III. 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 / Indrani Lahiri, Debanjan Banerjee, K. S. Meena, Anish V. Cherian, and Maryam Alsulaimi, 129
11 New Zealand's Success in Tackling COVID-19: How Ardern's Government Effectively Used Social Media and Consistent Messaging During the Global Pandemic / Nelly Martin-Anatias, 139
12 Coronavirus Pandemic: A Historical Handshake between the Mainstream Media and Social Media in Response to COVID-19 in Vietnam / Hang Thi Thuy Dinh and Hien Thi Minh Nguyen, 150
13 Bloggers against Panic: Russian-speaking Instagram Bloggers in China and Italy Reporting about COVID-2019 / Anna Smoliarova, Tamara Gromova, and Ekaterina Sharkova, 162
14 Re-imagined Communities in the Fight against the Invisible Enemy: Soccer and the National Question in Spain / Alberto del Campo Tejedor, 172
15 US Nationwide COVID-19 Newspaper Coverage of State and Local Government Responses: Community Structure Theory and a "Vulnerability" Pattern / John C. Pollock, Miranda Crowley, Suchir Govindarajan, Abigail Lewis, Alexis Marta, Radhika Purandare, and James N. Sparano, 182
16 Exploring the COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic: Health Communication Challenges and Opportunities / Carolyn A. Lin, 196
PART IV. RISK, SPACE, AND CYBERATTACKS
17 Manufacturing Fear: Infodemics and Scare Mongering on Coronavirus and Ebola Epidemics on Social Media Platforms in West Africa / Paul Obi and Floribert Patrick C. Endong, 213
18 Space Matters in Anticipating the Catastrophe: Relational Riskscapes of COVID-19, Dominant Discourses, and the Example of Turkey / Semsettin Tabur, 224
19 Presenting Disasters in the Media-Ebola and COVID-19: Fear and the "Risk Society" in the Age of Pandemics / DeMond Shondell Miller and Nicola Davis Bivens, 234
20 Abusing the COVID-19 Pan(dem)ic: A Perfect Storm for Online Scams / Kristjan Kikerpill and Andra Siibak, 249
PART I. CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN COMMUNICATION AND IDENTITY
1 Coronavirus Response Asymmetries in the Global North and Global South: New Challenges and Recommendations / Phillip Santos, 23
2 Between Declarations of War and Praying for Help: Analyzing Heads of State´s Speeches from a Cross-cultural Point of View / Eika Auschner, Julia Heitsch, and Zully Paola Martínez Torres, 33
3 Unsettled Belongings and Deglobalization: Transnational Media Complicate Chinese Immigrants' Struggle for Political Identity in the COVID-19 Pandemic / Zhipeng Gao, 44
4 Framing the Pandemic as a Conflict between China and Taiwan: Analysis of COVID-19 Discourse on Taiwanese Social Media / Ling-Yi Huang, 55
5 Comparing Coronavirus Online Searching and Media Reporting in Nigeria: Alignment or Disconnect? A Big Data Analysis of Media Reportage of Coronavirus in Nigeria / Mutiu Iyanda Lasisi and Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele, 65
PART II. 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 / Yawen Li and Marius Meinhof, 83
7 Arrest of the Public Interest or Fight for Public Health in Serbia: Contrasting Roles of Professional and Citizen Journalists / Kristina Cendic, 93
8 "We don't want to cause public panic": Pandemic Communication of Indonesian Government in Responding to COVID-19 / Dyah Pitaloka and Nelly Martin-Anatias, 103
9 Pathological Borders: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Strengthened Depictions of the Cyprus Partition in the Media and Government / Daniele Nunziata, 117
PART III. 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 / Indrani Lahiri, Debanjan Banerjee, K. S. Meena, Anish V. Cherian, and Maryam Alsulaimi, 129
11 New Zealand's Success in Tackling COVID-19: How Ardern's Government Effectively Used Social Media and Consistent Messaging During the Global Pandemic / Nelly Martin-Anatias, 139
12 Coronavirus Pandemic: A Historical Handshake between the Mainstream Media and Social Media in Response to COVID-19 in Vietnam / Hang Thi Thuy Dinh and Hien Thi Minh Nguyen, 150
13 Bloggers against Panic: Russian-speaking Instagram Bloggers in China and Italy Reporting about COVID-2019 / Anna Smoliarova, Tamara Gromova, and Ekaterina Sharkova, 162
14 Re-imagined Communities in the Fight against the Invisible Enemy: Soccer and the National Question in Spain / Alberto del Campo Tejedor, 172
15 US Nationwide COVID-19 Newspaper Coverage of State and Local Government Responses: Community Structure Theory and a "Vulnerability" Pattern / John C. Pollock, Miranda Crowley, Suchir Govindarajan, Abigail Lewis, Alexis Marta, Radhika Purandare, and James N. Sparano, 182
16 Exploring the COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic: Health Communication Challenges and Opportunities / Carolyn A. Lin, 196
PART IV. RISK, SPACE, AND CYBERATTACKS
17 Manufacturing Fear: Infodemics and Scare Mongering on Coronavirus and Ebola Epidemics on Social Media Platforms in West Africa / Paul Obi and Floribert Patrick C. Endong, 213
18 Space Matters in Anticipating the Catastrophe: Relational Riskscapes of COVID-19, Dominant Discourses, and the Example of Turkey / Semsettin Tabur, 224
19 Presenting Disasters in the Media-Ebola and COVID-19: Fear and the "Risk Society" in the Age of Pandemics / DeMond Shondell Miller and Nicola Davis Bivens, 234
20 Abusing the COVID-19 Pan(dem)ic: A Perfect Storm for Online Scams / Kristjan Kikerpill and Andra Siibak, 249
