11. Newspaper coverage of the 2003 SARS outbreak

Houston, J. Brian; Chao, Wen-Yu; Ragan, Sandra L.

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“…Media play major role in the discursive construction of crises. They offer varying representations of the crises depending on the geopolitical and social proximity of the readership to the region affected (Houston et al, 2008), they act as interactive crises managers (Lee, 2008), serve as an extended hand of the Government (Xiaoyan and Xiaoming, 2008), and even help revive nationalism through the positive construction of the national leaders and medical workers (Lu, 2008.) In this manner, media construct biased images of crises, thus helping legitimate particular forms of inclusion/exclusion, maintain existing power structures and set political agendas (Ryker and Don Mohd Don, 2013).…”

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Political alliance with COVID-19: Macedonian politics and the strategic use of the pandemic

Takovski

2022

Discourse & Society

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The emergence of COVID-19 in Macedonia in March 2020 overlapped with a period in which the country was run by a technical Government tasked to organize premature elections. In circumstances of highlighted inter-party conflict predating the health crisis, the newly emerged health emergency has only added to the political confrontation and the existing political crisis. COVID-19 and the resulting discourses on health crisis in this respect, I argue, have been used strategically by the political actors to make a populist advancement in the struggle over state power. Moreover, the strategic use of the COVID-19 by the two major political parties in a discourse marked by blame casting and (inter)dependence on past political misconduct indexes, and at the same time perpetuates, a larger ongoing political crisis in the country. To demonstrate the strategic use of the COVID-19 health discourse within the interparty conflict and its diagnostic potential to witness a prolonged political crisis, I will use internet data collected from the websites of the two largest Macedonian political parties in order to analyze the discursive strategies of predication and argumentation employed by the political parties.

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Political alliance with COVID-19: Macedonian politics and the strategic use of the pandemic

Takovski

2022

Discourse & Society

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Fear regimes: Comparing climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic

Jankó

2020

Geoforum

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Experiencing the Pandemic: Narrative Reflection about Two Coronavirus Outbreaks

Zhao

2020

Health Communication

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This is a narrative reflection about my experience of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks across countries between January and early March 2020. My recalled memories showed the shifting and contingent thoughts and emotions. Contextual factors such as my ethnic identity and local anticoronavirus policies also constructed my perceptions of the pandemic. While my story is unfinished as the coronavirus outbreak is still happening, the narratives provide a novel perspective to understand public health practices in a global context. As the health knowledge construction is infused with identity and personal meanings, this reflection also shows that people from a racial group may face unfair treatment in a pandemic. My narratives suggest the need for a more globally synchronized health communication in pandemics. "In all our preparations for the coming pandemic, then, we would be wise not to give short shrift to metaphor and language, and the way they shape not just our thinking, but also our actions."-Davis (2013, p. 178) I am a researcher in Klagenfurt, Austria. I originally come from China. These self-introduction-like starting sentences are the key for my story. My story starts from my holiday on the 19 th of January 2020. I planned this holiday a long time ago. Going back home for Chinese New Year always brings me happiness. Even now, it is still hard to associate my holiday with the coronavirus particles with those little pink spikes. Rumors, outbreak, terminology CONTACT Xiang Zhao

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11. Newspaper coverage of the 2003 SARS outbreak

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Political alliance with COVID-19: Macedonian politics and the strategic use of the pandemic

Political alliance with COVID-19: Macedonian politics and the strategic use of the pandemic

Fear regimes: Comparing climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic

Experiencing the Pandemic: Narrative Reflection about Two Coronavirus Outbreaks

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