Authors :
Hassan Rouhvand
Volume/Issue :
Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 2 - February
Google Scholar :
http://bitly.ws/gu88
Scribd :
https://bit.ly/3HH9HMC
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6324438
Abstract :
Our existence has been marked by great social
and political changes following the global spread of
COVID-19 over the past two years. As the concerns over
the widespread disease grew, so did the use of social media
by almost people and officials from diverse walk of life
seeking to promote healthy and secure environment. In the
wake of emerging challenges, countries with unique
economic and political attributes adopted disputable
approaches towards the use and function of new media.
This paper seeks to address this conflictual space, as the
central problem of study, through case studies of two
different economic and political systems in the Oceania
and eastern Asia, namely in Australia and Vietnam, to
show that under particular condition of COVID-19
pandemic, social media technologies played pivotal roles in
appropriating communication structures to respond to the
viral urgencies. It is argued that normative classical
theories, either singularly or integrated and still on the
curriculum agenda of academic circles, are problematic
and of less descriptive capacity to account for the
communication policies adopted by authorities and rulers
of distinct political structures at the time of risk
management. The study concludes that normative media
theories, with their limits and rigid definitions, fail to
explain the complexities of emerging conditions.
Keywords :
Australia, Covid-19, Social Media, Theory, Vietnam.
Our existence has been marked by great social
and political changes following the global spread of
COVID-19 over the past two years. As the concerns over
the widespread disease grew, so did the use of social media
by almost people and officials from diverse walk of life
seeking to promote healthy and secure environment. In the
wake of emerging challenges, countries with unique
economic and political attributes adopted disputable
approaches towards the use and function of new media.
This paper seeks to address this conflictual space, as the
central problem of study, through case studies of two
different economic and political systems in the Oceania
and eastern Asia, namely in Australia and Vietnam, to
show that under particular condition of COVID-19
pandemic, social media technologies played pivotal roles in
appropriating communication structures to respond to the
viral urgencies. It is argued that normative classical
theories, either singularly or integrated and still on the
curriculum agenda of academic circles, are problematic
and of less descriptive capacity to account for the
communication policies adopted by authorities and rulers
of distinct political structures at the time of risk
management. The study concludes that normative media
theories, with their limits and rigid definitions, fail to
explain the complexities of emerging conditions.
Keywords :
Australia, Covid-19, Social Media, Theory, Vietnam.
