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The Social Construction of COVID-19 through Historical Comparisons to SARS and Other Epidemics in News Media Coverage.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Social Construction of COVID-19 through Historical Comparisons to SARS and Other Epidemics in News Media Coverage./
Author:	Fesmire, William Thomas.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	75 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International83-03.
Subject:	Journalism. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28728066
ISBN:	9798535572482

The Social Construction of COVID-19 through Historical Comparisons to SARS and Other Epidemics in News Media Coverage.
Fesmire, William Thomas.

The Social Construction of COVID-19 through Historical Comparisons to SARS and Other Epidemics in News Media Coverage. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 75 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03.

Thesis (M.A.)--Vanderbilt University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Because of news media's role in information dissemination and communication, researchers believe that news media plays a significant role in social construction, the process by which meaning and value are attributed to objects, concepts, or knowledge in a social setting through continuous interaction. This thesis examines articles published in the online versions of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and USA Today during the first six months of 2020 to determine how news media participated in the social construction of COVID- 19. While social construction discourse analyses normally examine articles for specific language cues or metaphors, this thesis analyzes news media's use of past events, facts, and statistics to create a specific history of epidemics, to which writers compared COVID-19. Through mixed- methods discourse analysis, this study found that news media made comparisons to specific characteristics of past epidemics as a means of framing COVID-19 around current sociopolitical values and controversies. Through this gathering of the past, news media constructed a partial history of epidemics that perpetuated various social constructions at the onset of the epidemic. This thesis also examines historical comparisons between SARS and COVID-19 to reveal news media's continuation of Asian pathologization in its attempts to frame COVID-19 around current anti-China rhetoric. These findings suggest 1. that news media uses matters of fact not only to provide context but also to satisfy its own matters of concern, and 2. that historical comparison provides another avenue of social construction discourse analysis.

ISBN: 9798535572482Subjects--Topical Terms:

576107
Journalism.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Social construction

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