Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis

Marciano, Avi; Yadlin, Aya

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“…This militarism, which is part and parcel of the Israeli mentality, provides survival as a justification in relation to many topics discussed in Israeli society ( 36 ), for example, self-sacrifice, sanctification of death, and the encouragement of childbirth ( 37 ). During the COVID-19 period, such language appeared in the media, where it was used to justify and intensify the collection of medical data, epidemiological investigation, and surveillance of citizens ( 38 ). In daily life, militaristic metaphors were used also in coverage of the existential threat to Israel's health system, especially by individuals within the system.…”

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“…In this sense, the use of militaristic terms by clinicians helped create a sense of cohesion in the face of an external threat and merged with the media expressions of “winning the war” and the “battle against the virus” ( 36 ). However, this use of metaphors also served to generate feelings of stress and distress with the aim of pressuring decision makers to adopt policies that would benefit the health system ( 38 ).…”

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Metaphors of War in Effective and Ineffective Coping of Medical Directors of COVID-19 Wards in Public Hospitals

Naamati-Schneider

Gabay

2022

Front. Public Health

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The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged medical professionals worldwide with an unprecedented need to provide care under conditions of complexity, uncertainty, and danger. These conditions, coupled with the unrelenting stress of overwhelming workloads, exhaustion, and decision-making fatigue, have forced clinicians to generate coping mechanisms. This qualitative study explored the use of metaphors as a coping mechanism by clinical directors of COVID-19 wards in Israeli public general hospitals while they were exposed to death and trauma throughout the pandemic's first wave in Israel (March to June 2020). The study employs discourse methodology and metaphor mapping analysis to capture the personal, organizational, and social dimensions of effective and ineffective processes of coping with an extreme health crisis. Analysis revealed that the metaphors that clinical directors used reflect a dual process of mediating and generating the social construction of meaning and facilitating effective and ineffective coping. Effective coping was facilitated by war metaphors that created a sense of mission and meaningfulness at both the organizational and the individual levels. War metaphors that generated a sense of isolation and sacrifice intensified helplessness and fear, which undermined coping. We propose actionable recommendations to enhance effective coping for individuals and organizations in this ongoing pandemic.

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Metaphors of War in Effective and Ineffective Coping of Medical Directors of COVID-19 Wards in Public Hospitals

Naamati-Schneider

Gabay

2022

Front. Public Health

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“…to a division in society according to the principle of attitude to vaccination (Kirziuk 2021; Voronov 2021). As a result, there were many debates about how important social networks are in the dissemination of information, whether the state can interfere in the free functioning of the media to relieve tension and establish calm, whether freedom of speech is still more important, how social networks should be managed in a medical crisis and what the tasks of the state are (Sharifee;Nematollahzadeh & Labafi 2019;Marciano & Yadlin 2021). Panic is faster than official messages from government officials and doctors.…”

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The Influence of Covid-19-Induced Unease Infrastructure on Cultural and Social Spheres

Troitskiy

2023

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Covid-19 challenged the entire population of the world, affected everyone and all spheres of life, and changed the content, and the ways, of communication. For example, medical discourse was integrated in a variety of discursive fields. Covid-19 brought with it individual anxiety that was transformed into moral panic. The anxiety was further amplified by the unease infrastructure in everyday culture. This is found in the procedural aspects of culture, from the semantics and pragmatics of language to cultural patterns. Social and cultural presumptions were also revised during the pandemic so that the cultural reputations of topos were transformed and the cultural presumption of innocence, the basic for communication, was replaced by the opposite, the presumption of guilt. As a result, people began to perceive each other as potential threat carriers, as potential carriers of the virus. In the paper, I present the mechanisms of building unease infrastructure during the pandemic, various ways to overcome anxiety, and the impact of unease infrastructure on the individual level. I will talk about the influence of the unease infrastructure on changes in common sense, individual preference, and the social levels of the acceptable in the future.

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“…This article focuses on the personal and international scapes only, because the national scape has been given sufficient scholarly attention since the outbreak of COVID-19. For example, recent studies have shown that media coverage of COVID-19 commonly employs war metaphors and vocabularies (e.g., Marciano & Yadlin, 2021 ; Semino, 2021 ). Such observations from COVID-19 studies correspond with what we already know about the centrality of national security motifs in media coverage of surveillance (see Marciano, 2019 ).…”

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COVID-19 surveillance in Israeli press: Spatiality, mobility, and control

Yadlin

Marciano

2021

Mobile Media & Communication

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In March 2020, Israel passed emergency regulations authorizing its internal security agency to track citizens’ mobile phone geolocations in order to tackle the spread of COVID-19. This unprecedented surveillance enterprise attracted extensive media attention and sparked a vigorous public debate regarding technology and democratic values such as privacy, mobility, and control. This article examines press coverage of Israel’s surveillance of its citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic by four leading news sites to identify and map the frames that informed their reports. Based on a thematic analysis, our findings point to supportive and critical constructions of mobile phone location-tracking and organize them within two scapes: personal; and international. These attest to the collective imagining of intimacies and public life, respectively. We draw on the case study to articulate mobile phones as devices that reduce movement into manageable mapped information and individuals into controllable data. Mobile phone location-tracking during the COVID-19 pandemic is understood as turning mobility into order and control.

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Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis

Cited by 7 publications

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Metaphors of War in Effective and Ineffective Coping of Medical Directors of COVID-19 Wards in Public Hospitals

Metaphors of War in Effective and Ineffective Coping of Medical Directors of COVID-19 Wards in Public Hospitals

The Influence of Covid-19-Induced Unease Infrastructure on Cultural and Social Spheres

COVID-19 surveillance in Israeli press: Spatiality, mobility, and control

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