Communicating COVID-19
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.
| ISBN: | 9783030797379 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 395 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Herausgeber: | Govender, Eliza Holland, Kate Lewis, Monique |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 08.10.2022 |
| Untertitel: | Interdisciplinary Perspectives |
| Schlagworte: | communication inequality coronavirus communication coronavirus social media covid-19 communication covid-19 social media disinformation pandemic communication public health reporting covid-19 risk communication |
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.