[Commlist] New Book: "COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives"

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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