Deep Mediatization during COVID-19: An Interview with Professor Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen

Putta, Santhosh Kumar; Anderson, Bissie

doi:10.31165/nk.2021.141.662

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“…Mediatization entails the "transformation of many disparate social and cultural processes into forms or formats suitable for media representation" (Couldry, 2008, p. 50), a process which we also observed in this industry during the pandemic. Andreas Hepp (2013) points to the fact that the pandemic period was characterised by several processes of mediatization, including the repeat suggestions of "media-based 'solutions'" to (individual) problems (Kumar Putta & Anderson, 2021), which we observe also in the funeral industry, albeit more of necessity than inclination. In related areas, other research-Article: Covid-19 and the mediatization of the funeral industry in Australia and Denmark Stine Gotved, Hannah Gould & Lisbeth Klastrup ers have pointed to the acceleration of mediatization also in the religious sphere during the pandemic.…”

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Covid-19 and the mediatization of the funeral industry in Australia and Denmark

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Gould²,

Klastrup³

2023

MedieKultur

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This article focuses on the mediatization of funeral practices and customer relations in a business with human care and contact at its centre: the funeral industry. We analyse the impact of Covid-19 on the use of digital media in a comparative study of the deathcare sector in Australia and Denmark. Using surveys within the national funeral industries, qualitative interviews with funeral directors, and news media archives for 2020–2021, we identify four areas of mediatization: adaptations of specific technologies; interactions with the bereaved; transformations of funeral rites; and communications beyond the funeral service. In conclusion, we suggest that the mediatization process is a negotiation of, on the one hand, the need and growing demand for digital media into a traditions-bound business, and on the other hand, the funeral directors’ wish to care for the bereaved families through tactile, in-person relationships and emotional support.

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Section: Mediatization In the Funeral Industrysupporting

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Covid-19 and the mediatization of the funeral industry in Australia and Denmark

Gotved

Gould²,

Klastrup³

2023

MedieKultur

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“…In crisis situations such as the pandemic the demand for information is very high and what we know today about the pandemic is communicated to us through media (Putta & Anderson, 2021). Yet, in the wake of the pandemic, identifying the source of information became more important again, due to the spreading of misleading information, conspiracy theories, and fake news, that were spread (among others) by alternative news media.…”

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“…Hepp, Breiter and Hasebrink (2018b) claim that in the current wave we have now reached a stage of deep mediatization, which shows how deeply our everyday practices are interrelated with mediated practices. The effects of deep mediatization have been accelerated by the pandemic (Putta & Anderson, 2021). Due to the reduction of direct social contacts, we received most of our information via (digital) media and communication became further mediated in all fields of society where direct social contact was not relevant in order to keep the infrastructure critical for the sustainment of state and society going.…”

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Post or Perish? – Scholarly Communication Practices on Social Media in Times of Deep Mediatization

Thiele

Luethje

2022

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the rise of the internet and social media has introduced profound changes to (media-related) practices and communication strategies to accumulate power in the field of science. These are often described as the result of a (deep) mediatization of science with the CoVid-19 pandemic accelerating the effects of (deep) mediatization further. The aim of this paper is to identify field-specific social media practices to accumulate capital in the field of science and analyze how they have been changed in the wake of (deep) mediatization processes. The paper does so by using the concept of field-specific mediatization as a theoretical basis. The empirical part of the study builds on 55 qualitative interviews with German-speaking scholars that were conducted in 2016. It compares their description of social media usage and communication strategies to accumulate power to scholarly practices currently conducted under the influence of the pandemic as described in the literature. The results of the analysis show that scholars accumulate capital by networking (social capital), accessing and sharing information and publications (cultural capital) and increasing their visibility (symbolic capital). Due to field-specific processes of mediatization of the field, external communication has become more important and internal communication has gained a more personal quality. Overall, formerly clear-cut boundaries of internal and external target groups as well as personal and professional spheres have become more blurred and pressure connected to visibility enhanced.

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“…Most recent studies on the information crisis, or the 'post-truth' crisis, where people are more likely to accept an argument based on their emotions and beliefs rather than one based on facts (González-Méijome 2017), have dealt with analyzing the content and spread of fake news. According to Hepp (Hepp cited by Kumar Putta and Anderson 2021), what we know about the coronavirus is communicated to us through the media. Chavda et al (2022) revealed that during the COVID-19 crisis, people started to believe false news, took home remedies and believed fraudulent health claims on social media.…”

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Digital Pseudo-Identification in the Post-Truth Era: Exploring Logical Fallacies in the Mainstream Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Vaccines

Тенева

2023

Social Sciences

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Because of China’s new wave of COVID-19 in May 2023, the issue of tackling COVID-19 misinformation remains relevant. Based on Lippmann’s theory of public opinion and agenda setting theory, this article aims to examine the concept of digital pseudo-identification as a type of logical fallacy that refers to supporting journalists’ opinions with ‘false’ arguments that lack factual evidence. To do so, the study applied computer-aided content analysis, as well as rhetorical and critical discourse analyses, to examine 400 articles related to four COVID-19 vaccines (‘Oxford-AstraZeneca’, ‘Pfizer-BioNTech’, ‘Sputnik V’ and ‘Sinovac’) published on the online versions of two major British and American mainstream media sources between August 2020 and December 2021. The results of the study show that journalists of the ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The Guardian’ used similar logical fallacies, including the opinions of pseudo-authorities and references to pseudo-statistics and stereotypes, which contributed to creating distorted representations of the COVID-19 vaccines and propagating online misinformation. The study also reveals political bias in both of the mainstream media sources, with relatively more positive coverage of the European vaccines than non-European vaccines. The findings have important implications for journalism and open up perspectives for further research on the concept of digital pseudo-identification in the humanities and social sciences.

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Deep Mediatization during COVID-19: An Interview with Professor Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen

Abstract: An Interview with Professor Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen

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Covid-19 and the mediatization of the funeral industry in Australia and Denmark

Covid-19 and the mediatization of the funeral industry in Australia and Denmark

Post or Perish? – Scholarly Communication Practices on Social Media in Times of Deep Mediatization

Digital Pseudo-Identification in the Post-Truth Era: Exploring Logical Fallacies in the Mainstream Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Vaccines

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