1st Edition
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Risks in East Asia Media, Social Reactions, and Theories
Using "risk" as a conceptual lens, this book analyzes how communities across East Asia responded to the disruption unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The contributors to this book look at how governments, societies, and individuals have perceived, experienced, dealt with and interpreted the pandemic and the transformations it has brought across countries like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines. They examine pressing concerns such as infodemic, digital health literacy, media cynicism, telework, and digital inequalities in conjunction with issues such as public trust, identity formation, nationalism, and social fragmentation. They look at a wide range of questions relating to communication, mediation, and reactions to the challenges of the pandemic.
An insightful resource for scholars of risk studies and of East Asian societies, the book is also a valuable reference for students and researchers of media and communication studies and sociology.
1. Introduction: Risk Society and the COVID-19 Pandemic in East Asia [Nobuto Yamamoto] 2. Covid-19 as Catalyst of Global Risk Society: Institutionalization, De-Westernization and Datafication of Crisis Communication Research [Martin Löffelholz, Pauline Gidget Estella, and Yi Xu] 3. Information Literacy or Political Propaganda: Analyzing the Taiwan Government’s Responsive Strategies to COVID-19 Infodemic [Chiung-wen Hsu and Yun-Chung Tang] 4. "Noise" in Communicating Risk about the Covid-19 Pandemic in Taiwan: The Impact of Uncivil Online Messages [Tsung-Jen Shih] 5. A Sense of the Public: Japan and Vietnam [Vu Le Thao Chi] 6. Psychological Responses, Health Literacy and Information Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan and Korea [Jinah Lee] 7. Media Cynicism, Risk Perception of COVID-19, and the Civil Values in Japan and Korea [Kwangho Lee] 8. Mediated Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Emotion in Japan [Shuzo Yamakoshi and Fumie Mitani] 9. CoroNationalism in the Risk Society: The Nationalist Discourses of Taiwanese Professional Baseball during the Outbreak of COVID-19 [Chang-de Liu] 10. Troubled Togetherness in Pandemic: The Analysis of ‘Special Social Cluster’ in Taiwan [Leticia Nien Hsuan Fang] 11. The Digital Divide among Women Slum Dwellers during the Pandemic [Violet B. Valdez and Samantha P. Javier]
Biography
Nobuto Yamamoto is Professor at the Department of Politics, Keio University, Japan. His areas of research include politics and history of Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia. He is the author of Censorship in Colonial Indonesia, 1901–1942 (2019) and editor of many books in Japanese.
