COVID Communication : Exploring Pandemic Discourse / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch, John C. Pollock, Amanda M. Caleb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vakoch, Douglas A.

Contributor:

Pollock, John C.

Caleb, Amanda M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Clinical health psychology.

Public health.

Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.

Health Psychology.

Public Health.

Local Subjects:

Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.

Health Psychology.

Public Health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.

Summary:

This book focuses on how we understand COVID-19—medically, socially, and rhetorically. Given the expectation that other flu pandemics will occur, it stresses the importance of examining how the public response is shaped in the face of global health emergencies. It considers questions such as how can pandemic language both limit and expand our understanding of disease as biomedical, social, and experiential? In what ways can health communication be improved through the study and application of rhetoric and the health humanities? COVID Communication fills a gap in the pandemic literature by promoting interdisciplinary analysis of communication methods, realized through a health humanities approach. It centers human experience and culture within conversations about the biological reality of a pandemic. This volume will be a welcome contribution to the scientific investigations and practice of psychology and public health professionals. Interdisciplinary perspective New insights on how a pandemic is understood Highlights the relevance to important usually neglected relevance for psychology and public health professionals.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Political and Media Discourses: Pandemic Constructions

The Rhetoric of Pandemics: Health, Politics, and the Public

Rhetorical Lenses of COVID-19: Comparing U.S. News and Social Media Responses to National Events Since 9/11

COVID-19 as Metaphor: Fighting the Virus of Racism, Becoming the Vaccine

Tweeting the Pandemic Away: A Look at How Academics, Activists, Politicians, and the Media Interact with the Public on Twitter

Textual Analysis of Cartoons on Nigerian Politicians’ Reactions to COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Media Platforms

Part II. Visual Discourse: Pandemic Information Distribution

The Rhetoric of Visual Representations: Visualizing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Polish Media

Countering the Infodemic through Comics: COVID-19 and Graphic Medicine

This Is What Pandemic Looks Like: Visual Framing of COVID-19 on Search Engines

Advertising in the Time of COVID-19: A Thematic and Social Engagement Analysis of Branded Wins and Misses

Part III.Discourses of Inclusions/Exclusion: Pandemic Communities

Self-Isolation and Consubstantiality: COVID-19 Terminology and Collective Identity

Personifying Coronavirus through Social Media

Stay At Home And Stay Safe: Social Distancing as Border Performance

Social Distancing from COVID-19 by Buying Toilet Paper: Critiquing “Self-Protective” Consumerism through Memes

Unmasking the Pandemic: Self, Other, and the Mask as a Visual Signifier of COVID-19

Going Corona-Viral with a Bilateral Phenomenon of Laughter: Othering and Prejudice in Memes Depicting Reactions to COVID-19

Part IV. Discourses of Dissent: Pandemic Reactions to Misinformation

Varieties of Church Pandemic Literacy during the 1918 and 2020 Epidemics

“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make”: Memes and The Social Media Critique by the UK Public in Response to COVID-19

Don’t Hold your Breath: Motives and Anxiety in Facebook COVID-19 Viral Shares

Idols of COVID-19: Francis Bacon and thePandemic of 2020

The Epic Spectator Meets the War on the Coronavirus

Index. .

Other Format:

Print version: Vakoch, Douglas A. COVID Communication

ISBN:

9783031276651

3031276655

OCLC:

1381094745