Social reaction to a new health threat: the perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships

Vilar-Lluch, Sara 2022. Social reaction to a new health threat: the perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships. Musolff, Andreas, Breeze, Ruth, Kondo, Kayo and Vilar-Lluch, Sara, eds. Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 185-206. (10.5040/9781350232730.ch-010)

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Abstract

Covid-19 emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and within three months it was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. Infectious disease outbreaks have occurred throughout human history, but Covid-19 is the first global pandemic in the digital era. The population’s access to communication technologies has come with unprecedented floods of information, misinformation and disinformation or conspiracy theories about the pandemic, and social networks became central spaces of information sharing and support provision. Fear constitutes a central emotional response in a pandemic and was to be expected in the Covid-19 crisis (Van Bavel et al., 2020: 461). However, social media exposure has been correlated with an increase in fear and mental health problems such as exacerbated stress and anxiety (Gao et al., 2020; Holmes at al., 2020: 552). On the other hand, appropriate health communication can help the population face the fear that may result from uncertainty surrounding the disease and continuous exposure to mis-/disinformation, and can promote behaviour change (Finset et al., 2020: 873)....

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:	978-1-3502-3269-3
Last Modified:	16 Sep 2024 14:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/171822

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