Battling with infodemic and disinfodemic: the quandary of journalists to report on COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan

Jamil, Sadia; Appiah-Adjei, Gifty

doi:10.1080/01296612.2020.1853393

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“…In a recent study by Radic et al [37] on intention of female passengers to dine on board cruise ships in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic was negatively affected by the mass media coverage. Mass media coverage can affect the perception of audience awareness and behavior [38] and the full strength of mass media coverage influence on audience behavior is evident in the current COVID-19 pandemic [39][40][41].…”

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Intention to Take COVID-19 Vaccine as a Precondition for International Travel: Application of Extended Norm-Activation Model

Radić

Koo

Gil‐Cordero

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious threat to human health, the global economy, and the social fabrics of contemporary societies as many aspects of modern everyday life, including travel and leisure, have been shattered to pieces. Hence, a COVID-19 mandatory vaccination as a precondition for international travel is being debated in many countries. Thus, the present research aimed to study the intention to take the COVID-19 vaccine as a precondition for international travel using an extended Norm-Activation Model. The study model integrates a new construct, namely mass media coverage on COVID-19 vaccination as additional predictor of intention to take the COVID-19 vaccine. The survey data were collected from 1221 international travelers. Structural equation modelling shows a very good fit of the final model to the data; the conceptual model based on extended Norm-Activation Model was strongly supported. Awareness of consequences related to the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals’ health has shown a positive effect on individuals’ ascribed responsibility to adopt emotionally driven (anticipated pride and anticipated guilt) pro-social behaviors that activate a personal norm towards altruistic and pro-mandatory vaccination-friendly behavior. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Section: Mass Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Intention to Take COVID-19 Vaccine as a Precondition for International Travel: Application of Extended Norm-Activation Model

Radić

Koo

Gil‐Cordero

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…I have noted how these rituals of containment include all of the SOPs developed by the government to contain the viral spread. I have presented the government as the protagonist of COVID-19, in which it has hegemonic power to censor and control the behaviors of the people, epidemiological data about COVID-19, and viral dead bodies, and have illustrated some of the social and political schisms around that control (see for example Jamil and Appiah-Adjei, 2020). I conclude that dealing with such bodies according to scientific evidence and guidelines is justifiable; the problem lies in the discriminatory and contradictory government policies and practices, which in my analysis are part of both the political and the structural pandemics in Pakistan.…”

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Rituals of Containment: Many Pandemics, Body Politics, and Social Dramas During COVID-19 in Pakistan

Ali

2021

Front. Sociol.

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Infecting millions of people, causing around two million deaths, and affecting billions of people worldwide during January 2021, the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is not merely one pandemic but many. These many pandemics, which I identify herein, have revealed the overt and subtle entanglements among religion, science, and politics around COVID-19. Building on my current ethnographic research on COVID-19 using purposive sampling and interview guide in Pakistan, and borrowing from various anthropological concepts such as “social drama,” proposed by Victor Turner, and ritual, I have developed a concept that I call rituals of containment. With this concept, I extend my previous argument regarding “symbolic ownership” to show a visible “body politics” by demonstrating how religion, science, and politics around COVID-19 are entangled at individual and government levels. This has become observable through the rituals of the Pakistani government of containment to deal with COVID-19. Such entanglements are visible in the case of strategies to tackle infected “viral bodies,” as the government has enacted its authority: (1) to bury what I am terming the dead viral body without its beloved ones present; (2) to return or not to return this body to family members in a coffin; (3) or to provide the grieving family with a symbolic empty coffin. These Covidian politics have led to the question: Who in actuality owns the body? In conclusion, I argue that the problem lies in the discriminatory and contradictory rituals of containment of the government, not in using scientific evidence and guidelines.

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“…Technological shifts and their associated challenges in the newsrooms appear to have influenced journalists’ performance at different levels. For example, technology-led convergence, at the micro-level, significantly affect the routines and practices of journalists by influencing organizational practices and structures (Jamil and Appiah-Adjei, 2020). In addition, at the meso-level, the media organizations may offer resources to allow employees to gain required skills, consequently, allowing them to up their cross-platform content generation abilities, as well as their marketability.…”

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“…On one hand, the growing adoption of new technologies require fewer people in media organizations, thus spurring the layoffs. On the other hand, the government continues to issue licenses to new (yet conventional) media organizations, which seem to curtail freedom of speech and limit the economic and political benefits to its regulatory bodies (Jamil and Appiah-Adjei, 2020). Meanwhile, the local government, Jamil and Appiah-Adjei (2020) explain, is not in a position to prevent the widespread layoffs due to the adoption of digital technologies by few media organizations, creating fear and hopelessness among the journalism community in terms of job security and the future of the media industry in Pakistan (Rehmat, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, the government continues to issue licenses to new (yet conventional) media organizations, which seem to curtail freedom of speech and limit the economic and political benefits to its regulatory bodies (Jamil and Appiah-Adjei, 2020). Meanwhile, the local government, Jamil and Appiah-Adjei (2020) explain, is not in a position to prevent the widespread layoffs due to the adoption of digital technologies by few media organizations, creating fear and hopelessness among the journalism community in terms of job security and the future of the media industry in Pakistan (Rehmat, 2019). To mitigate this situation, local press groups and media conglomerates have emphasized the successive adoption of diverse approaches over the past 5 years to cope with digital media challenges.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Converged journalism: practices and influences in Pakistan

Ittefaq

Ejaz

Fahmy

et al. 2021

Media International Australia

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Based on the hierarchy of influences model, we explored journalists’ understanding and perceptions about media convergence in Pakistan’s media industry and its influence on journalistic practices and routines. In-depth interviews with Pakistani news practitioners revealed several challenges hindering the successful implementation of media convergence in Pakistan. These challenges included the lack of resources for incorporating digital technologies, the lack of financial incentives, and stringent journalistic work routines, we found that technology-induced routines have severely affected both the personal and the professional lives of media practitioners. The adoption of convergence in Pakistan has been largely based on economic and commercial concerns rather than attempts to improve the quality of media content. Overall, the work contributes to the media convergence literature by providing insights from an emerging non-Western media system.

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Battling with infodemic and disinfodemic: the quandary of journalists to report on COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan

Cited by 32 publications

References 37 publications

Intention to Take COVID-19 Vaccine as a Precondition for International Travel: Application of Extended Norm-Activation Model

Intention to Take COVID-19 Vaccine as a Precondition for International Travel: Application of Extended Norm-Activation Model

Rituals of Containment: Many Pandemics, Body Politics, and Social Dramas During COVID-19 in Pakistan

Converged journalism: practices and influences in Pakistan

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