COVID-19 in International Media : Global Pandemic Perspectives (Paperback)

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 Martinez 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 ?endi? 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 ?emsettin 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