Influencers and COVID-19: reviewing key issues in press coverage across Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea
As COVID-19 broke out across the Asia Pacific from December 2019, media coverage on its impacts proliferated online. Among these discourses, coverage on influencers was prominent, likely as many of the issues arising from COVID-19 contingencies – such as digitalization, public messaging, and misinfo...
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| author | Abidin, Crystal Lee, Jin Barbetta, T. Miao, W.S. |
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| description | As COVID-19 broke out across the Asia Pacific from December 2019, media coverage on its impacts proliferated online. Among these discourses, coverage on influencers was prominent, likely as many of the issues arising from COVID-19 contingencies – such as digitalization, public messaging, and misinformation – are cornerstones of this digital economy. In response, this cross-cultural study draws on a corpus of Australian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean online news articles published between January and May 2020, to understand how local news ecologies were parsing the impacts of COVID-19 on influencers. From the coding of 150 news articles guided by Grounded Theory, this article focuses on the impact of the pandemic on influencers, and influencers’ engagements with and reactions to the pandemic. Our study of individual governments’ past engagements with their influencer industries suggest that local backstories and contexts are crucial to decipher why news angles tend to pitch particular stories on influencers. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-904842023-03-20T06:58:20Z Influencers and COVID-19: reviewing key issues in press coverage across Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea Abidin, Crystal Lee, Jin Barbetta, T. Miao, W.S. Social Sciences Communication coronavirus COVID-19 influencers wanghong press coverage social media As COVID-19 broke out across the Asia Pacific from December 2019, media coverage on its impacts proliferated online. Among these discourses, coverage on influencers was prominent, likely as many of the issues arising from COVID-19 contingencies – such as digitalization, public messaging, and misinformation – are cornerstones of this digital economy. In response, this cross-cultural study draws on a corpus of Australian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean online news articles published between January and May 2020, to understand how local news ecologies were parsing the impacts of COVID-19 on influencers. From the coding of 150 news articles guided by Grounded Theory, this article focuses on the impact of the pandemic on influencers, and influencers’ engagements with and reactions to the pandemic. Our study of individual governments’ past engagements with their influencer industries suggest that local backstories and contexts are crucial to decipher why news angles tend to pitch particular stories on influencers. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90484 10.1177/1329878X20959838 English http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE190100789 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Social Sciences Communication coronavirus COVID-19 influencers wanghong press coverage social media Abidin, Crystal Lee, Jin Barbetta, T. Miao, W.S. Influencers and COVID-19: reviewing key issues in press coverage across Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea |
| title | Influencers and COVID-19: reviewing key issues in press coverage across Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea |
| title_full | Influencers and COVID-19: reviewing key issues in press coverage across Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea |
| title_fullStr | Influencers and COVID-19: reviewing key issues in press coverage across Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea |
| title_full_unstemmed | Influencers and COVID-19: reviewing key issues in press coverage across Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea |
| title_short | Influencers and COVID-19: reviewing key issues in press coverage across Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea |
| title_sort | influencers and covid-19: reviewing key issues in press coverage across australia, china, japan, and south korea |
| topic | Social Sciences Communication coronavirus COVID-19 influencers wanghong press coverage social media |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE190100789 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90484 |