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  • Mapping national news reports on COVID-19 in Australia: Topics, sources, and imagined audiences

    Author(s)
    Lewis, Monique
    Holland, Kate
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Lewis, Monique R.
    Year published
    2021
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    News media across the world have played an important role in contributing to public discourse about the COVID-19 pandemic, including the actions being taken by governments to prevent and contain its spread and the role of citizens in the public health response. In this chapter, we analyse news reporting on the pandemic in The Australian newspaper and ABC News Online in Australia between February and August 2020. Our constructed week sampling approach examined news reports across 24 days with particular attention to the topics and sources included in the coverage and the ways in which audiences were addressed in the stories. ...
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    News media across the world have played an important role in contributing to public discourse about the COVID-19 pandemic, including the actions being taken by governments to prevent and contain its spread and the role of citizens in the public health response. In this chapter, we analyse news reporting on the pandemic in The Australian newspaper and ABC News Online in Australia between February and August 2020. Our constructed week sampling approach examined news reports across 24 days with particular attention to the topics and sources included in the coverage and the ways in which audiences were addressed in the stories. Conceptually, we take as our starting point Briggs and Hallin’s framework of ‘biomediatisation’ and three predominant models of ‘biocommunicability’ that they identify in health news: biomedical authority, patient-consumer and public sphere. These models variously position social actors in active or passive roles in relation to the flow of health information. Our analysis explores the presence of these models in news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and whether or not adaptations or new models are better suited to capture some of the particular characteristics of this profoundly mediatised pandemic.
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    Book Title
    Communicating COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Volume
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79735-5_4
    Subject
    Communication and media studies
    COVID-19; COVID; coronavirus; biocommunicability; biomediatisation; news reporting; Australia; public health
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/409311
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