Communicating COVID-19

"An invaluable document of COVID-19's media life, which offers a richly nuanced examination of COVID-19 news journalism, public facing health sector communications and social media. Communicating COVID-19 is a touchstone for the emerging field of pandemic media."

• Mark D M Davis, Monash University, Australia, co-author of Pandemics, Publics and Narrative (2020)

"As governments and scientists scrambled to find solutions in the face of grave uncertainty created by COVID-19, there was a massive public demand for information. Filling this communication gap is the focus of this must-read, timely book, which includes excellent scholarly contributions from across the globe."

• Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Professor in Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University, USA, and Associate Scientific Director at CAPRISA This book explores communication during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring the work of leading communication scholars from around the world, it offers insights and analyses into how individuals, organisations, communities, and nations have grappled with understanding and responding to the pandemic that has rocked the world. The book examines the role of journalists and news media in constructing meanings about the pandemic, with chapters focusing on public interest journalism, health workers and imagined audiences in COVID-19 news. It considers public health responses in different countries, with chapters examining community-driven approaches, communication strategies of governments and political leaders, public health advocacy, and pandemic inequalities. The role of digital media and technology is also unravelled, including social media sharing of misinformation and memetic humour, crowdsourcing initiatives, the use of data in modelling, tracking and tracing, and strategies for managing uncertainties created in a pandemic.

Auteur

Monique Lewis is a communications scholar, sociologist, and lecturer in media and communication at Griffith University, Australia, and a member of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research.

Eliza Govender is Associate Professor and Head of Department of the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS), University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Kate Holland is Senior Research Fellow in the News & Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra, Australia.

Texte du rabat

This book explores communication during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring the work of leading communication scholars from around the world, it offers insights and analyses into how individuals, organisations, communities, and nations have grappled with understanding and responding to the pandemic that has rocked the world. The book examines the role of journalists and news media in constructing meanings about the pandemic, with chapters focusing on public interest journalism, health workers and imagined audiences in COVID-19 news. It considers public health responses in different countries, with chapters examining community-driven approaches, communication strategies of governments and political leaders, public health advocacy, and pandemic inequalities. The role of digital media and technology is also unravelled, including social media sharing of misinformation and memetic humour, crowdsourcing initiatives, the use of data in modelling, tracking and tracing, and strategies for managing uncertainties created in a pandemic.

Contenu

Chapter 1: Introduction SECTION 1: NEWS MEDIA AT THE COALFACE: REPORTING COVID-19Chapter 2: The pandemic and public interest journalism: crisis, survival, and rebirthChapter 3: Fast-tracking the cure: Science communication in Latin America AuthorChapter 4: Reporting from the front line: The role of health workers in UK television news reporting of COVID-19Chapter 5: Framing a global pandemic in an age of biomediatisation SECTION 2: COMMUNICATING THE PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSEChapter 6: Communication inequality, structural inequality and COVID-19Chapter 7: Mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in Africa: Lessons from HIV/AIDS communication interventionsChapter 8: Tailoring COVID-19 communication for local contexts: Challenges, contradictions and complications in a utopian public health responseChapter 9: Disentangling science and ideology in a fast-paced global pandemicChapter 10: Communicating Ableism in a Pandemic: Compassion, Vulnerability and the Violence of CareChapter 11: Death Warrants: Argumentation Strategies of Scandinavian Political Leaders during COVID-19Chapter 12: Underpinnings of pandemic communication in India: The curious case of COVID-19 Chapter 13: Analysis of the government of Israel COVID-19 health and risk communication efforts: between a political-constitutional and health crisis SECTION 3: CITIZENS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES Chapter 14: Coronavirus conspiracy theories: Tracing misinformation trajectories from the fringes to the mainstreamChapter 15: Smart crowdsourcing to bridge the expert-public knowledge gap in risk communication about COVID-19Chapter 16: "South Africa Laughs in the Face of Coronavirus": Humour, Memetic Media and Nation-Building in South AfricaChapter 17: Monitoring the R-citizen in the time of coronavirus