Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiii, 240 pp.
Contains index, glossary
Series: Routledge Research in Journalism, 41
ISBN 978-1-032-30779-4 (pbk); 978-1-003-30660-3 (online)
"This topical volume illuminates ethical issues brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a broad range of case studies from different regions, it provides insights into the multiple and complex ways in which the pandemic has shaped media ethics. Chapters employ a wide range of innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to dissect enduring and emerging ethical questions during the pandemic, providing lucid accounts of axiological dimensions in pandemic discourses, ethics of emotional mood, ethical challenges and dilemmas in news reporting, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, and Othering. While the case studies in this book are unique, the authors have extrapolated common strands from their analysis of ethical issues applicable to any other country or region during the pandemic, contributing unique perspectives on how media ethics are circumscribed by global health pandemics." (Publisher description)
PART I: OVERVIEW: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
1 Introduction: Rethinking media ethics during health pandemics / Martin N. Ndlela, Tendai Chari
2 Axiological dimensions in COVID-19 pandemic discourses: A comparative analysis of Germany, France and Romania / Simona Rodat
3 Emotional mood and its ethics in crisis communication / Skaidrite Lasmane
PART II: ETHICAL CHALLENGES
4 Ethical challenges during Covid-19 pandemic: experiences of journalists in Zimbabwe / Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Nonhlanhla Ndlovu, Bhekizulu Bethaphi Tshuma
5 The virus of 'blame' : how news media transposed Islamophobia onto the corona pandemic in India / Arif Hussain Nadaf
6 Professional, ethical conflict or a power grab? The case study of Index during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic / Mátyás Máté
7 Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns and their implications on journalism ethics in South Africa and Zimbabwe / Tendai Chari, Khutso Mabokela
8 COVID-19, the global pandemic and Japanese media: limitations of agenda setting by mass media and misinformation in social media / Muneo Kaigo, Yuka Omoya
9 COVID-19 disinfodemic and journalism ethics in South Africa's mainstream news media ecosystem / Millie Phiri, Allen Munoriyarwa, Collen Chambwera
10 Why we should overcome the "infodemic" account / Thales Lelo
11 Information, state of alert and propaganda in Spain: use of social media by Andalusian political parties during the COVID-19 pandemic / Antonio Pineda, Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla, Ana I. Barragán-Romero, Elena Bellido-Pérez
1 Introduction: Rethinking media ethics during health pandemics / Martin N. Ndlela, Tendai Chari
2 Axiological dimensions in COVID-19 pandemic discourses: A comparative analysis of Germany, France and Romania / Simona Rodat
3 Emotional mood and its ethics in crisis communication / Skaidrite Lasmane
PART II: ETHICAL CHALLENGES
4 Ethical challenges during Covid-19 pandemic: experiences of journalists in Zimbabwe / Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Nonhlanhla Ndlovu, Bhekizulu Bethaphi Tshuma
5 The virus of 'blame' : how news media transposed Islamophobia onto the corona pandemic in India / Arif Hussain Nadaf
6 Professional, ethical conflict or a power grab? The case study of Index during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic / Mátyás Máté
7 Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns and their implications on journalism ethics in South Africa and Zimbabwe / Tendai Chari, Khutso Mabokela
8 COVID-19, the global pandemic and Japanese media: limitations of agenda setting by mass media and misinformation in social media / Muneo Kaigo, Yuka Omoya
9 COVID-19 disinfodemic and journalism ethics in South Africa's mainstream news media ecosystem / Millie Phiri, Allen Munoriyarwa, Collen Chambwera
10 Why we should overcome the "infodemic" account / Thales Lelo
11 Information, state of alert and propaganda in Spain: use of social media by Andalusian political parties during the COVID-19 pandemic / Antonio Pineda, Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla, Ana I. Barragán-Romero, Elena Bellido-Pérez
