COVID-19 in International Media

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.

John C. Pollock is Professor of Health and Human Rights Communication at the Departments of Communication Studies and Public Health, The College of New Jersey. Douglas A. Vakoch is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Clinical Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies.

Foreword: Perceptions of Pandemics: Communicating about COVID-19 in International Ecosystems Preface: COVID-19 in Global Media: Questions and Challenges for Health Communication Introduction: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Media: Issues and Opportunities Part 1: Cultural Differences in Communication and Identity 1. Coronavirus Response Asymmetries in the Global North and Global South: New Challenges and Recommendations 2. Between Declarations of War and Praying for Help: Analyzing Heads of State-s Speeches from a Cross-cultural Point of View 3. Unsettled Belongings and Deglobalization: Transnational Media Complicate Chinese Immigrants' Struggle for Political Identity in the COVID-19 Pandemic 4.Framing the Pandemic as a Conflict between China and Taiwan: Analysis of COVID-19 Discourse on Taiwanese Social Media 5. Comparing Coronavirus Online Searching and Media Reporting in Nigeria: Alignment or Disconnect? A Big Data Analysis of Media Reportage of Coronavirus in Nigeria Part 2: 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 7. Arrest of the Public Interest or Fight for Public Health in Serbia: Contrasting Roles of Professional and Citizen Journalists 8. "We don't want to cause public panic": Pandemic Communication of Indonesian Government in Responding to COVID-19 9. Pathological Borders: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Strengthened Depictions of the Cyprus Partition in the Media and Government Part 3: 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 11. New Zealand's Success in Tackling COVID-19: How Ardern's Government Effectively Used Social Media and Consistent Messaging During the Global Pandemic 12. Coronavirus Pandemic: A Historical Handshake between the Mainstream Media and Social Media in Response to COVID-19 in Vietnam 13. Bloggers against Panic: Russian-speaking Instagram Bloggers in China and Italy Reporting about COVID-2019 14. Re-imagined Communities in the Fight against the Invisible Enemy: Soccer and the National Question in Spain 15. US Nationwide COVID-19 Newspaper Coverage of State and Local Government Responses: Community Structure Theory and a "Vulnerability" Pattern 16. Exploring the COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic: Health Communication Challenges and Opportunities Part 4: Risk, Space, and Cyberattacks 17. Manufacturing Fear: Infodemics and Scare Mongering on Coronavirus and Ebola Epidemics on Social Media Platforms in West Africa 18. Space Matters in Anticipating the Catastrophe: Relational Riskscapes of COVID-19, Dominant Discourses, and the Example of Turkey 19. Presenting Disasters in the Media-Ebola and COVID-19: Fear and the "Risk Society" in the Age of Pandemics 20. Abusing the COVID-19 Pan(dem)ic: A Perfect Storm for Online Scams