Full Description
This topical volume illuminates ethical issues brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a broad range of case studies from different regions, it provides insights into the multiple and complex ways in which the pandemic has shaped media ethics.
The chapters employ a wide range of innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to dissect enduring and emerging ethical questions during the pandemic, providing lucid accounts of axiological dimensions in pandemic discourses, ethics of emotional mood, ethical challenges and dilemmas in news reporting, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation and Othering. While the case studies in this book are unique, the authors have extrapolated common strands from their analysis of ethical issues applicable to any other country or region during the pandemic, contributing unique perspectives on how media ethics are circumscribed by global health pandemics.
The book will appeal to researchers, academics and practitioners at all levels in the fields of media studies, journalism, communication, media sociology and public health, as well as general readers and policymakers who are keen to learn more about how global health crises illuminate critical ethical issues confronting the media.
Contents
PART I: OVERVIEW: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 1. Introduction: Rethinking Media Ethics During Health Pandemics
Chapter 2. Axiological Dimensions in COVID-19 Pandemic Discourses. A comparative analysis of Germany, France and Romania
Chapter 3. Emotional Mood and Its Ethics in Crisis Communication
PART II: ETHICAL CHALLENGES
Chapter 4. Ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Journalists in Zimbabwe
Chapter 5. The Virus of 'Blame': How Television News Transposed Islamophobia onto the COVID-19 Pandemic in India
Chapter 6. Professional, Ethical Conflict or a Power Grab? The Case Study of Index during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
Chapter 7. COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and their implications on journalism ethics in South Africa and Zimbabwe
PART III: INFODEMICS
Chapter 8. COVID-19, the Global Pandemic and Japanese Media: Limitations of Agenda Setting by Mass Media and Misinformation in Social Media
Chapter 9. COVID-19 disinfodemic and journalism ethics in South Africa's mainstream news media ecosystem
Chapter 10. Why we should overcome the "infodemic" account
Chapter 11. Information, state of alert and propaganda in Spain: Use of social media by Andalusian political parties during the COVID-19 pandemic
Contributors
Index
Glossary
