Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780367706326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 274 str.

Stuart Price; Ben Harbisher

Opis

This edited collection provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary critique of the acts of public communication disseminated during a major global crisis.

Spis treści

Introduction: Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: framing public discourse  PART I: The Pandemic: historical, medical and racial configurations  1 Killing Fields: Pandemics, Geopolitics and Environmental Emergency  2 Biopolitics, Eugenics and the New State Racism  3 The Subsumption of Racial Discrimination: the representation of Chinese mainstream media of the maltreatment of African nationals in Guangzhou during the Covid-19 Pandemic  PART II: Power, Crisis and Repression  4 The Cultural Politics of Crisis in the UK  5 UK Universities during Covid-19: catastrophic management, ‘business continuity’, and education workers  6 Covid-19, Police Brutality and the systematic targeting of the black and disadvantaged population in Brazil  PART III: Journalism, Information and Structures of Argument during Covid-19  7 Just Following the Science: fact-checking journalism and the Government’s lockdown argumentation  8 The burden of responsibility: Investigative journalism in South Africa during the Covid-19 crisis  9 "It's just a little flu": Covid, institutional crisis and information wars in Brazilian journalism - the Folha de São Paulo newspaper  PART IV: British Political Discourse during the Pandemic  10 The BBC and Covid-19: the Politicisation of a Pandemic?  11 How the UK Government ‘turned on a sixpence’ to change its story: a discourse analysis of the No.10 daily coronavirus news conferences  12 Mortality, Blame Avoidance and the State: constructing Boris Johnson’s exit strategy  PART V: Homelessness and Dispossession during the Pandemic  13 Has homeless rough sleeping in the UK and Europe been solved in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic?  14 Leper Islands: Coronavirus and the Homeless ‘Other’