Media, Communication, and the Construction of Global Public Health

This panel session brings together interdisciplinary research perspectives from the countries of India, South Africa, Canada, and Australia who are investigating various dimensions of the COVID-19 communicative landscape. The purpose of this panel is to share perspectives on pandemic communication from a diversity of research fields, including public health, community radio, political economy, journalism, and development communication.

Chair: Eliza Govender(University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Presenters: 

Community Radio in the Covid-19 Crisis: Lessons from Global Dialogues
Vinod Pavarala (UNESCO and University of Hyderabad)

Meta-journalistic discourse and the COVID-19 pandemic
Kate Holland (University of Canberra) and Monique Lewis(Griffith University)

Perceptions of risk and self-efficacy about COVID messaging in three geospatial locations in South Africa 
Mpume Gumede (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Durban

Far-right political extremism and the radicalization of the anti-vaccine movement in Canada
Sibo Chen (Ryerson University)

From suppression to “Living with COVID”: The narrative turn in Australian government press conferences
Monique Lewis (Griffith University)