Representation Of COVID-19 Research Articles

The metaphor of the coronavirus in the Chinese Internet space

The object of the study is headlines about a new coronavirus infection in the Internet space. The subject of the study is the metaphors used in the representation of COVID-19 in the headlines of the Chinese media. As a result of the analysis of more than one hundred and fifty headlines of articles about coronavirus infection in the Internet space of China, published in the period from 2019-2021, the author identified more than fifty metaphors. The aim of the study was to identify metaphorical groups and translate metaphorical representations of coronavirus into Russian, taking into account extralinguistic factors. The relevance of this study is determined by the interest in the coronavirus pandemic and China as the alleged source of the disease. Mass media have a great influence on all spheres of human activity, and in the era of intensification of life and economy of linguistic efforts, a special role in the modern information space is assigned to the title. To identify and analyze the features of the COVID-19 representation, such research methods as the method of linguistic and cultural analysis, contextual analysis, component analysis, classification method, comparison method, generalization method, quantitative calculation and descriptive method are used. As a result of the analysis, seven thematic groups of metaphors were identified, the percentage was distributed as follows: 1.Coronavirus as a war - 37% 2.Coronavirus as a threat uniting people - 17% 3.Coronavirus as a dark entity - 14% 4.Coronavirus as a warning to humanity - 12% 5. New heroes in the conditions of the coronavirus epidemic - 10% 6.Coronavirus as an unpredictable event - 6% 7.New objects and phenomena in the conditions of coronavirus - 4% The studied language material allows us to observe the dynamics of the emergence and development of the coronavirus metaphor as a military action. The author concludes that the use of the metaphorical model "War" is one of the most active ways to conceptualize the spread of Covid. Interlanguage studies are of particular theoretical and practical importance in order to determine the national specifics of metaphors and linguistic universals.

Administration Of Fear Through Symbols About Covid-19 In Indonesian Online News

The Covid-19 outbreak is a global fear. This fear is partly triggered by diverse media representation. Information containing representations of COVID-19 has the potential to reduce fear. However, in reality, representations through these symbols have the potential to be used by those in power to exercise their power, especially to get rid of their political opponents through representation. The representation of Habib Rizieq Shihab as a violator of health protocols is suspected to be an attempt by the authorities to eliminate his political opponents through fear of the COVID-19 outbreak in symbols spread in the media. This research wants to answer how the administration of fear in symbols regarding violations of the COVID-19 protocol by religious figures in the representation of Habib Rizieq Shihab in Indonesian online news. This research explores the concept and criticizes the concept of administration of fear, which is a construct from dromology-based theories by Paul Virilio. This research uses Barthes' textual semiotics method (Barthes' 5 codes), which analyzes several online news texts in Indonesia. From the results of the analysis, it is revealed that the media representation of Habib Rizieq Shihab is a form of administration of fear carried out by the authorities through symbols about COVID-19 in the media by constructing logistics of perception and environmental construction that represents Habib Rizieq based on fear of the epidemic and fear of Islam (Islamophobia).

Management of the COVID crisis in Reunion Island (SW Indian Ocean): representations of COVID-19 and acceptance of public health measures

ABSTRACT Context: The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has caused a major health crisis, requiring the implementation of various public health measures in order to slow the spread of the virus and reduce the associated mortality. However, the success of these measures depends on people’s acceptance of them. This research aimed at understanding people’s representations of COVID-19 and its crisis management, and ultimately at understanding their attitudes toward health measures for counteracting the spread of COVID-19 in Reunion Island together with the behaviours expected of them. Method: Using Random Digit Dialling, a qualitative study was conducted with 53 inhabitants between February and May 2021. The COREQ checklist was followed. A dual textometric and manual thematic analysis was adopted in order to identify representations of COVID and the management of the crisis. Results: Some respondents perceived COVID-19 as a serious disease, while others saw it as a banal virus or even doubted its existence. A perceived ineffectiveness of public health measures and the incompetency of public actors predominated in the participants’ discourse. Conclusions: Thus, there was a considerable lack of trust and negative attitudes toward health measures, possibly influencing people’s acceptance and explaining numerous controversies. This research examines the importance of considering people’s representations of the health situation in order to improve people’s acceptance of protective measures.

Theorizing COVID-19 information retrieving from a culture-centered lens: Communication infrastructures for challenging disinformation

ABSTRACT Underpinned by the notion that communication equality is crucial in developing communication infrastructures for health and well-being, this study explores experiences of COVID-19 information retrieving in a low-income suburban area in Aotearoa from a culture-centered lens. Drawing from in-depth interviews with ethnic minority residents, we reveal two polarizing experiences: at one end, residents were confident in the government’s representation of COVID-19 but also fearful and anxious, while at the other end, residents were skeptical of formal institutions and expressed alternative views about COVID-19. The findings illuminate how community distrust is intertwined with communication inequality, which can further entrench and magnify health inequality, informing key recommendations for culturally centering pandemic communications and creating infrastructures to challenge disinformation.

Representations of COVID-19: the pandemic in the context of international commuting migration from mining.

To analyze the conceptions about COVID-19 among Brazilians who carry out commuting to work in clandestine mines located on the borders between Brazil, French Guiana and Suriname. This is qualitative research, from an analytical perspective, based on Social Representation Theory. Semi-structured, audio-recorded interviews were carried out with 10 Brazilians who experience work routine in clandestine mining on the border between Brazil, French Guiana and Suriname. Two analytical categories emerged: "The disease of otherness"; and "Health access dimension". Disease severity was attributed to another or a human body organ, and not to individuals as a whole. Access to health services was established on issues of inequity, violence and illegal practices. The nature of a transient population, which carries out commuting and informal and clandestine work, demonstrates vulnerability to COVID-19 and a lower propensity to receive care.

Representations of COVID-19: the pandemic in the context of international commuting migration from mining

RESUMO Objetivo: Analisar as concepções acerca da covid-19 entre brasileiros que realizam migração pendular para trabalhar em garimpos clandestinos situados nas fronteiras entre Brasil, Guiana Francesa e Suriname. Método: Pesquisa qualitativa, em uma perspectiva analítica, alicerçada na Teoria das Representações Sociais. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas, áudiogravadas com 10 brasileiros que vivenciam a rotina de trabalho em garimpos clandestinos na fronteira entre Brasil, Guiana Francesa e Suriname. Resultados: Foram designadas duas categorias analíticas: “A doença da alteridade”; e “Dimensão do acesso à saúde”. Conclusão: A gravidade da doença foi atribuída ao outro ou a um órgão do corpo humano, e não ao indivíduo como um todo. O acesso aos serviços de saúde instituiu-se em questões de iniquidade, violência e práticas ilegais. O caráter de população transitória, que realiza migração pendular e de trabalho informal e clandestino, demonstra vulnerabilidade à covid-19 e menor propensão a receber cuidados.

‘Where are the graves of coronavirus victims?’ Beliefs, conspiracy theories and representations of COVID-19 in Africa

The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected everyday life in Africa, a continent that is known for its high levels of religious belief. Using a corpus of news articles and the social representations research paradigm, this study examines African understandings of the pandemic. It uses installation theory, the wind rose model and the accommodation hypothesis to explore the coexistence between science and belief. The accommodation hypothesis demonstrates that the representations were hierarchical, to elevate God above science. Faith leaders also used the pandemic to enhance faith by blaming sin and urging repentance or blaming science by espousing conspiracy theories about the pandemic being a grand design to draw believers away from God. This paper highlights the great disparity in experience between Africa and the West, initially fuelling conspiracy theories. The findings also reinforce two key conceptual approaches: installation theory on the influence of rules imposed by society on behaviour, and the wind rose model in which representations change over time and in response to social interactions.

The Covid-19 Effect in Cameroon: Between the Deconstruction of Social Relations and the Emergence of New Relational Habits

Considered the third world war, the Covid-19 pandemic affects all regions and cities of the world, sowing terror and desolation in its path. The objective of this article is to analyze the impacts of this pandemic on social relations in Cameroon. Socio-historical approaches have been used to understand this phenomenon. Based on in-depth field surveys, this study shows that the methods used to raise public awareness of the harmful effects of this pandemic, in particular through communication (in the streets, in schools, at university, at the market, on television, etc.), the uproar around Covid-19 in Cameroon has not only raised awareness among the population; it also traumatized them, thus creating panic, shame, fear, all crowned with a deconstruction of the relationships between each other. Doomed to failure, the response against the “indisputable destroyer” has social consequences, among which figure prominently: stigmatization, abstention from screening tests for some, refusal to seek treatment for others, and the different representations of Covid-19 and also of people carrying the virus.

Investigating Lexical Concept and Semantic Representation of Covid-19 in Coronavirus Corpus: A Corpus-Based Study

This article discusses the lexical and semantic representation through the collocation that appeared in the Coronavirus Corpus. This research investigates the frequent collocates that appeared together with the node word Corona and find out how those collocates construct the meaning through the linguistic system and conceptual system as they are involved in lexical representation. This research offers a new insight into teaching language using Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models (Evans, 2009). The data collected are from the Coronavirus corpus by using the corpus-based method. The strength of the keywords and collocate is measured by using Mutual Information (MI). The MI was set in 5; therefore, three lexemes resulted, i.e., cases, patients, and outbreak. The data were analyzed using the lexical concept and cognitive model proposed by Evans (2009). The research results, in general, reveal that the information is coming from the “authorized institution” and “government’s representative”; it needs “the official approval or agreement” before publishing to the media, and in the passive form, it describes the foregrounded information and agentless informational assertion. Therefore, the information should be accurate and firm. However, another lexical concept reveals that the information is terrorizing and terrifying; the educated and trained person should also conduct the treatment.

Social representations of covid-19 in the unstable information environment (a mid-2021 study)

The relevance of studying the social consequences of the covid-19 is determined by the fact that this transforming event affected the most diverse aspects of life in the Russian society. The article presents the results of the survey conducted on the sample of the Moscow residents in mid-2021. The majority of respondents considered the coronavirus as a dangerous disease that should be taken seriously. The phenomenon of coronavirus, due to its complexity, poor knowledge and mass distribution, has acquired not only a biomedical, but also a political, economic and media dimension. The information field about the origin, sources and measures to combat this disease experienced changes over time and was often contradictory. A typological analysis showed that there are several groups with different social ideas about the origin, control measures and social consequences of the covid-19. A significant group - about a half of respondents - shared ideas that were alternative to the official and dominant interpretation of the coronavirus in the information field. The study revealed that the agreement on the dangers of the coronavirus was combined with the priority of personal choice of means to combat it. The majority of respondents (61 %) were against the introduction of mandatory vaccination: among the most popular motives were doubts about its effectiveness and fears of its side effects; the priority of individual choice and the rights of citizens rather than the state. A statistically significant relationship was found between attitudes towards mandatory vaccination and trust in government: a low level of agreement with mandatory vaccination obviously correlates with a low level of trust in leading social-political institutions. The authors show that the Russian media discourse on the need for mass vaccination was accompanied by a wide spread of ideas that rigidly differentiate Russian citizens, which cannot but cause concerns about the tasks of ensuring social stability and unity of the Russian society.

When Life Hangs by a Thread: Representations of Covid-19 by the Mapula Embroidery Project

In 2020, the Mapula Embroidery Project were commissioned to produce a series of 14 artworks in cloth on the topic of Covid-19 and its impact on their community. However, as the article reveals, the relationship of the works to the actual lived experiences of project members turned out to be complex, indirect or even paradoxical. In their choice and treatment of subject matter, members of the project sometimes represent their aspirations rather than necessarily their difficulties. While sometimes exposing hardships people experience or illustrating their own fears, they also often represent scenarios that are suggestive of an aspiration to be part of an ordered society where difficulties are overcome. Furthermore, while the works include imagery drawn from designers’ own perceptions of their everyday environment, they also at times incorporate motifs and text gleaned from online searches and television broadcasts, in effect recording messages and discourses about Covid-19 current at a particular historical juncture. Consequently, while not literal reflections of practices in the context of the pandemic, the cloths have an important “truth” value: they invoke people’s fears and anxieties while also suggesting their capacity to sustain hope in a time of challenge and uncertainty.

ETNOGRAFIA COM CRIANÇAS EM TEMPOS DE PANDEMIA: UMA REFLEXÃO ÉTICO-METODOLÓGICA

Abstract This article is concerned with the ethical and methodological aspects of research carried out during 2020, which investigated the children’s representation of Covid-19 in the Brazilian state of Maranhão. It queries the fabrication of an ethnography at a distance (with the children’s parents as mediators), taking digital technologies as a means to access children and their narratives through short interviews, audio recordings, and drawings. Adhering to social distancing rules, without access to direct observation, it raises issues regarding the process of obtaining information and transforming it into data through systematization and analysis.

Covid-19 – An Unexpected Journey. Exploring Metaphorical Representations of Covid-19 among the medical professionals

Covid-19 – An Unexpected Journey. Exploring Metaphorical Representations of Covid-19 among the medical professionals

A socio-anthropological survey to support communication on Covid-19 in West Africa

RésuméL'adhésion de la population aux mesures de prévention est cruciale pour le succès de la lutte contre l’épidémie de Covid-19, qu'il s'agisse du respect des gestes barrières ou de la vaccination. Nous avons mené dans cinq pays de la Communauté économique des États d'Afrique de l'Ouest (Burkina Faso, Cap Vert, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinée Bissau, Sierra Leone) une enquête socio-anthropologique sur les représentations du Covid-19 susceptibles d'influencer cette adhésion. Nos résultats montrent que les messages de popularisation des gestes barrières ont extrêmement bien pénétré la population et qu'ils sont parfaitement compris, mais qu'une partie substantielle de la population nie la présence du Covid-19 dans son pays, que la transmission du SARS-CoV2 par des personnes asymptomatiques est majoritairement ignorée, que les facteurs de risque de formes graves de la maladie sont insuffisamment connus et qu'une majorité des enquêtés craint de contracter le Covid-19 en se rendant dans un centre de santé. L’« infodémie » qui circule sur les réseaux sociaux ne semble pas contribuer aux différentes idées fausses que nous avons mises en évidence, idées qui sont le produit des observations et de l'interprétation des personnes interviewées. Nous proposons une réorientation de la communication sur le Covid-19 sur la base des résultats de notre enquête.

Social representations and ideology: Theories of common sense about COVID-19 among middle-class Brazilians and their ideological implications

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of billions of people worldwide. Individuals and groups were compelled to construct theories of common sense about the disease to communicate and guide practices. The theory of social representations provides powerful concepts to analyse the psychosocial construction of COVID-19. This study aimed to understand the social representations of COVID-19 constructed by middle-class Brazilian adults and their ideological implications, providing a social-psychological analysis of these phenomena while the pandemic is still ongoing. We adopted a qualitative approach based on semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted online in April-May 2020. Participants were 13 middle-class Brazilians living in urban areas. We analysed the interviews with thematic analysis and a phenomenological approach. The social representations were organised around three themes: 1) a virus originated in human actions and with anthropocentric meanings (e.g., a punishment for the human-led destruction of the environment); 2) a dramatic disease that attacks the lungs and kills people perceived to have “low immunity”; and 3) a disturbing pandemic that was also conceived as a correction event with positive consequences. The social representations included beliefs about the individualistic determination of immunity, the attribution of divine causes to the pandemic, and the need for the moral reformation of humankind. The discussion highlights the ideological implications of these theories of common sense. Socially underprivileged groups are at greater COVID-19-related risk, which the investigated social representations may contribute to conceal and naturalise.

Countdown to a Pandemic: BBC News representation of the response to COVID-19 as a global crisis approached

Since COVID-19 peaked in Europe and in the USA in April 2020 there has been much speculation on the degree of complacency in the West, in terms of its own health system preparedness. I argue that a crucial factor was a socio- cognitive bias in which the media reported uncritically that we were well prepared. This was largely unchanged from SARS almost two decades earlier.This paper compares discourse analysis of Western media coverage of SARS in 2003-4 with the BBC’s representation of COVID-19, prior to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) declaration of a global pandemic in March 2020. It investigates the geopolitical and socio-cultural factors which may have contributed to the differences and similarities between these two periods of uncertainty. A corpus of 238 BBC online news articles that were published in the month after the WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern were collated between February 22nd and March 17th 2020. A combination of corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis identifies traces of the underlying assumptions that shaped the media’s approach. Many aspects of the BBC’s coverage of COVID-19 conform closely with the Western media’s treatment of SARS. This includes China’s alleged culpability and Western countries’ priority to protect themselves from a foreign virus. Journalists unconsciously othered the virus itself, linguistically and rhetorically, assuming it was for them and not us. Articles invariably drew on evidence that supported this narrative, albeit from reputable sources such as the WHO, and largely ignored perspectives that challenged it. This remained the case even as the epicentre of the crisis shifted from China to Continental Europe.

Theme-rheme analysis of the Jakarta post headlines on covid-19 issue

COVID-19 has been impacted worldwide attention since it is a serious disease. Millions of people are infected and the aspects of the government have been descent. COVID-19 has become a daily topic for Indonesia’s newspapers. Media has an important role in giving information and awareness about this issue. Critical Discourse Analysis performs in portraying this issue by figuring out the representation of COVID-19 in the headlines. The headlines on The Jakarta Post were analyzed by employing Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistic. The data were taken by observing twenty newspaper headlines from The Jakarta Post newspaper on the national column on the first-week edition using purposive sampling. The writer uses purposive sampling because the writer wants to determine the sampling by specifying special characteristics. The newspaper uses a topical theme in all of the headlines, yet the participants of the Theme are different. The participants involved in the headlines were Actor, Verbiage, Sayer, Senser, and Goal as their Themes. In representing the COVID-19, The Jakarta Post newspaper headlines used the Theme to figure out the participant of the headlines. The participant Actor shows the action or the content of the headlines. Participant Verbiage shows the content of the headline. Participant Sayer directly says the content of the headline. Participant Senser shows that people are suffered due to this virus. Participant Goal shows that the action gives a positive impact on something related to the topic. The Jakarta Post newspaper uses these themes in order to examine the representations of COVID-19 in Indonesia that is a dangerous virus. The dangers of COVID-19 can be seen by the use of the participant Actor that is mostly done by the government.

Les représentations de la pandémie SARS-CoV-2 et du confinement dans une patientèle de psychiatrie libérale à Paris

A brief description of attitudes and representations of SARS-Cov-2 pandemic among patients in a psychiatric Parisian office. Collected data suggest that the confinement's measure has been accepted. However the end of confinement has been a time of increased anxiety for many. The representations of Covid-19 and the one of the other's body tended to be assimilated. Some perplexity over preventive measures has been observed.

Questionnaire on Perception of Threat from COVID-19.

The ravages caused by the disease known as COVID-19 has led to a worldwide healthcare and social emergency requiring an effective combined effort from everyone to reduce contagion. Under these circumstances, the perception of the disease is going to have a relevant role in the individual’s psychological adjustment. However, at the present time there is no validated instrument for evaluating adult perception of threat from COVID-19. Considering the importance of perception or representation of the disease in a state of social alert, our study intended to validate an instrument measuring the psychological process of the disease caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19). In view of the above, this study evaluated the factor structure and reliability of the version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) for COVID-19 in a sample of adults. The sample consisted of 1014 Spanish adults (67.2% women and 32.8% men). The exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a unidimensional model of the scale, which was the one that showed the best fit and explained 43.87% of the variance. This brief version has adequate psychometric properties and may be used to evaluate the perception of threat from COVID-19 in an adult Spanish population. The validation of this instrument contributes to progress in representation of COVID-19 in our culture.