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.

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.