“Film and TV can offer nuanced perspectives on complex issues and emotions that are often hard to grasp through traditional information channels”. Intensive care hospital fighting Covid-19 in Pesaro, Italy. Photo by Alberto Giuliani, Wikimedia Commons. March 19, 2020. As the most recent pandemic in history, COVID-19 had the unique position of being documented byContinueContinue reading “The Public Reception to TV Drama as a COVID-19 Information Source”
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Meet the Team: Alexandria Vander Velde
“It will be interesting to see if and how COVID-19 presents itself in alternative forms of media in the future through literature, film, and art as both a roll-on effect from the pandemic and to communicate the significance of the event to future generations.” What are the main epidemics that your team focuses on? IContinueContinue reading “Meet the Team: Alexandria Vander Velde”
In Sickness and in Health: How the UK Media Urges Britain to Stick by Ailing NHS and Medical Staff
Photo by Nicolas J Leclercq on Unsplash. Two things struck me when researching media reporting on the medical profession in the UK: the number of issues in the National Health Service (NHS) and the fact that these issues have gone untreated for so long. I analysed articles from 2000 to 2024, and the problems inContinueContinue reading “In Sickness and in Health: How the UK Media Urges Britain to Stick by Ailing NHS and Medical Staff”
Meet the Team: Jess Laven
“…social media allows anyone to spread disinformation and misinformation quickly and anonymously. During the pandemic, fake news, hoax theories and pseudo-science ran rampant across social media…” What are the main epidemics that your team focuses on? I’m a fourth and final year undergraduate communication and journalism student at The University of Queensland. I joined theContinueContinue reading “Meet the Team: Jess Laven”
Meet the Team: Alyssa Nunnink
“Some [doctors] felt extremely burnt out at the height of the pandemic, while others remember being protected by stress by camaraderie amongst colleagues.” What are the main epidemics that your team focuses on? As part of the UK team for the Media and Epidemics project, Gareth Dickson and I are investigating contemporary perspectives on COVID-19.ContinueContinue reading “Meet the Team: Alyssa Nunnink”
Media and Epidemics (MEDEP) 