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[Commlist] New Book: "COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives"
Wed Aug 18 08:32:48 GMT 2021
New Book (Apologies for cross-posting)
COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives
Edited by John C. Pollock and Douglas A. Vakoch
·Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (August 13, 2021)
·Language : English
·Hardcover : 300 pages
·ISBN-10 : 1032020660
·ISBN-13 : 978-1032020662
·Dimensions : 6.14 x 0.69 x 9.21 inches
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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.
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. Here is a link to the book’s publisher:
https://www.routledge.com/COVID-19-in-International-Media-Global-Pandemic-Perspectives/Pollock-Vakoch/p/book/9781032020662#
<https://www.routledge.com/COVID-19-in-International-Media-Global-Pandemic-Perspectives/Pollock-Vakoch/p/book/9781032020662#>
Table of Contents
Foreword
Perceptions of Pandemics: Communicating about COVID-19 in International
Ecosystems
Kirk St.Amant
Preface
COVID-19 in Global Media: Questions and Challenges for Health Communication
John C. Pollock
Introduction
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Media: Issues and Opportunities
Lisa M. DeTora, Michael J. Klein, and John C. Pollock
*I. Cultural Differences in Communication and Identity*
Chapter 1.
Coronavirus Response Asymmetries in the Global North and Global South:
New Challenges and Recommendations
Phillip Santos
Chapter 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
Chapter 3.
Unsettled Belongings and Deglobalization: Transnational Media Complicate
Chinese Immigrants’ Struggle for Political Identity in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Zhipeng Gao
Chapter 4.
Framing the Pandemic as a Conflict between China and Taiwan: Analysis of
COVID-19 Discourse on Taiwanese Social Media
Ling-Yi Huang
Chapter 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
*II. Responses to Regulation: Media as Instruments of Social Control or
Conflict/Resistance*
Chapter 6.
Imagining Pandemic as a Failure: Writing, Memory and Forgetting under
COVID-19 in China
Yawen Li and Marius Meinhof
Chapter 7.
Arrest of the Public Interest or Fight for Public Health in Serbia:
Contrasting Roles of Professional and Citizen Journalists
Kristina Ćendić
Chapter 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
Chapter 9.
Pathological Borders: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Strengthened
Depictions of the Cyprus Partition in the Media and Government
Daniele Nunziata
*III. Responses to Regulation: Media as Instruments of Cooperation and
Representation*
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 13.
Bloggers against Panic: Russian-speaking Instagram Bloggers in China and
Italy Reporting about COVID-2019
Anna Smoliarova, Tamara Gromova, and Ekaterina Sharkova
Chapter 14.
Re-imagined Communities in the Fight against the Invisible Enemy: Soccer
and the National Question in Spain
Alberto del Campo Tejedor
Chapter 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
Chapter 16.
Exploring the COVID-19 Social Media /Infodemic/: Health Communication
Challenges and Opportunities
Carolyn A. Lin
*IV. Risk, Space, and Cyberattacks*
Chapter 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
Chapter 18.
Space Matters in Anticipating the Catastrophe: Relational Riskscapes of
COVID-19, Dominant Discourses, and the Example of Turkey
Şemsettin Tabur
Chapter 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
Chapter 20.
Abusing the COVID-19 Pan(dem)ic: A Perfect Storm for Online Scams
Kristjan Kikerpill and Andra Siibak
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*Editors:*
*John C. Pollock*(Ph.D., Stanford, M.I.P.A., Maxwell School-Syracuse,
B.A., Swarthmore) is Professor, Departments of Communication Studies and
Public Health, College of New Jersey. His teaching and research
interests focus on health communication and community structure theory,
a subset of media sociology, exploring the impact of society on media.
Serving on the editorial boards of /Journal of Health Communication,
Communication Theory, and Mass Communication and Society, /he has
published articles in/Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly,
Journal of Health Communication, Journal of Human Rights, The New York
Times, The Nation, and Industry Week./ His authored or edited books
include /Tilted Mirrors: Media Alignment with Political and Social
Change—A Community Structure Approach/ (2007); /Media and Social
Inequality: Innovations in Community Structure Research/ (2013);
/Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage
/(2015); and (with Mort Winston) /Making Human Rights News: Balancing
Participation and Professionalism/ (2017). He has received grants from
the Social Science Research Council, National Cancer Institute, United
Nations Foundation, and Senior Fulbright Scholar program (Argentina, 2010).
*Douglas A. Vakoch*, Ph.D., is President of METI, a research
organization dedicated to Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence and
sustaining civilization on multigenerational timescales. As Director of
Green Psychotherapy, PC, he helps alleviate environmental distress
through ecotherapy. He is a frequent commentator on television programs
that explore astrobiology—the hunt for life in the cosmos. His expertise
includes space exploration, the societal impact of science, and
environmental threats to humanity’s long-term survival. Dr. Vakoch has
published over 20 books covering the search for life beyond the Earth,
the psychology of space exploration, COVID-19, environmental health, and
ecofeminism. He has been featured in such publications as /The New York
Times/ , /The Economist/ , /Nature/ , and /Science/ , and he has been
interviewed on radio and television shows on the BBC, NPR, ABC, the
Science Channel, the Discovery Channel, and many others, with recent
appearances on PBS’s /NOVA Wonders/ and the Netfl ix documentary series
/Alien Worlds/ . Dr. Vakoch is Editor-in-Chief of the book series /Space
and Society/ , as well as general editor of /Ecocritical Theory and
Practice/ .
//*Testimonials from accomplished scholars:*
"This extremely timely and much-needed study of the media’s role in
covering Covid-19 provides an excellent global and comparative
perspective of how different societies’ media are responding to the
unprecedented risk brought on by the pandemic. Covering all inhabited
continents, it provides fascinating and in-depth accounts of the media’s
role in the pandemic. This book should be mandatory reading."
*University Professor**Folker Hanusch*, /Ph.D., Professor of Journalism,
Department of Communication, University of Vienna; Editor-in-Chief,
/Journalism Studies;/ Vice-Chair, Worlds of Journalism Study/
"Pollock and Vakoch have assembled a formidable collection that
demonstrates the richness of communication theories and analysis for
understanding multiple aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book
features stellar contributions from around the world that examine the
communicative, technological, political and cultural complexities of the
pandemic, as well as different government responses and performance."
*Dr. Silvio Waisbord*, /Director and Professor, School of Media and
Public Affairs, George Washington University; Past Editor-in-Chief,
/Journal of Communication/, 2015-2018/
"In the midst of a global crisis, /COVID-19 in International Media:
Global Pandemic Perspectives/ presents a rich and timely panoply of the
way governments, citizens, and the media around the world have framed
the Corona pandemic. An exemplary effort of internationally
collaborative scholarship, this book is a must-read for scholars in
health communication and journalism as well as in political and
strategic communication."
*Dr.**Thomas Hanitzsch*, /Chair and Professor of Communication,
Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich; Chair, Worlds of
Journalism Study; Editor of /Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures
around the Globe /and /The Handbook of Journalism Studies
"A pandemic is a global event, handled and experienced in many different
ways in different contexts and creating important global information
flows, debates and competitions. Scholarship on communication in
pandemics rarely reflects this global character. But here is an
exception―a highly diverse collection that explores COVID communication
in a wide range of national and transnational contexts across the world,
deeply informed by first-hand knowledge of those contexts."
*Daniel C. Hallin*, /Distinguished Professor, Department of
Communication, University of California, San Diego/
"The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated unprecedented challenges to
society to reduce the spread of viral infection, death, and suffering
around the globe. However, some countries did a better job than others
in avoiding the (pandemic misinformation) 'infodemic' by using media
strategically to mobilize public acceptance of prevention guidelines.
This important book examines which media communication strategies worked
effectively to help minimize danger from the pandemic, and which
mediated communication practices made the pandemic even worse in
different parts of the world. There are important lessons to be learned
about effective communication and strategic use of media to address
important public health threats that this book powerfully illustrates."
*Gary L. Kreps*, /Ph.D., FAAHB, University Distinguished Professor,
Department of Communication; Director, Center for Health and Risk
Communication, George Mason University/
"The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the critical importance of media of
all kinds in the precarious efforts to forge a shared understanding of
the health threats we all face. With accounts from every continent, this
volume carefully and effectively explores the social and political
contexts in which media respond to a once-in-a-century challenge."
*Tim P. Vos*, /Professor and Director of the School of Journalism,
Michigan State University; Co-author of /Gatekeeping Theory/, and
President, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication, 2020-2021/
/"COVID-19 in International Media /offers an important and timely
account of the roles and responsibilities of news and social media in
the face of a pandemic of massive proportions. Authors from around the
world contribute to a discussion that will for years to come set an
agenda for researchers and policymakers alike."
*Theodore L. Glasser*, /Professor //Emeritus//, Department of
Communication, Stanford University; Past President, Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication/
"This book delves into some of the continued injurious consumption
practices―ecologically insensitive social behavior, wet markets, and
environmental destruction―that will continue when the medical hype of
COVID-19 is long past, and when the next pandemic will inevitably again
punish societies for their inability to adapt to the natural world. The
solutions are known, but is anyone listening? The authors of this book
explain what needs to be done."
*Keyan G. Tomaselli*, /Distinguished Professor, University of
Johannesburg; Johns Hopkins Health and Education South Africa Lifetime
Achiever’s Award; Co-editor, /Development and Public Health Communication
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