The COVID-19 Pandemic and Risks in East Asia: Media, Social Reactions, and Theories

Description

Using "risk" as a conceptual lens, this book analyzes how communities across East Asia responded to the disruption unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributors to this book look at how governments, societies, and individuals have perceived, experienced, dealt with and interpreted the pandemic and the transformations it has brought across countries like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines. They examine pressing concerns such as infodemic, digital health literacy, media cynicism, telework, and digital inequalities in conjunction with issues such as public trust, identity formation, nationalism, and social fragmentation. They look at a wide range of questions relating to communication, mediation, and reactions to the challenges of the pandemic. An insightful resource for scholars of risk studies and of East Asian societies, the book is also a valuable reference for students and researchers of media and communication studies and sociology. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Chapter 1 Introduction: Risk Society and the COVID-19 Pandemic in East Asia Chapter 2 COVID-19 as a Catalyst of Global Risk Society: Institutionalization, De-Westernization, and Datafication of Crisis Communication Research Chapter 3 Information Literacy or Political Propaganda: Analyzing the Taiwan Government’s Responsive Strategies to COVID-19 Infodemic Chapter 4 “Noise” in Communicating Risk about the COVID-19 Pandemic in Taiwan: The Impact of Uncivil Online Messages Chapter 5 A Sense of the Public: Japan and Vietnam Chapter 6 Psychological Responses, Health Literacy, and Information Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan and Korea Chapter 7 Media Cynicism, Risk Perception of COVID-19, and the Civil Values in Japan and Korea Chapter 8 Mediated Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Emotion in Japan Chapter 9 Coronationalism in the Risk Society: The Nationalist Discourses of Taiwanese Professional Baseball during the Outbreak of COVID-19 Chapter 10 Troubled Togetherness in the Pandemic: The Analysis of “Special Social Cluster” in Taiwan Chapter 11 The Digital Divide among Women Slum Dwellers during the Pandemic Index