Abstract
ABSTRACT In this essay, I use discourse tracing to analyse critical movements and shifts in media discourse during the early phases of the COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore. The study follows mainstream media discourses featured in The Straits Times to unearth the tensions, ruptures, and dialectics as the public health crisis developed. Specifically, I traced how media frames were constructed and reconstructed to convey escalating threats. In shaping the production of knowledge about the outbreak, journalistic rituals embedded socio-cultural factors in shapingthe outbreak narrative. In the process, racialized threats of the mobile transnational citizen were discussed, informing us how the virus is manufactured, discussed, and circulated by the media.
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