A Time of Covidiocy: Media, Politics, and Social Upheaval

Daniel Ian Rubin, Faith Agostinone Wilson (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-50000-6 (ISBN)

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This book provides a critical media analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic, using the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel to reveal the deliberate practices of those that have weaponized a deadly, serious disease against the most vulnerable members of society.

The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted a chaotic political and social landscape within the United States. Its arrival revealed cracks in longstanding neoliberal narratives. In this book, the authors utilize critical theory to analyze the collapse of these hyper-individualistic narratives within the media, in the broad areas of economics, the nuclear family, and authoritarian populism and through the topics of scapegoating China, capitalist class economic messaging, the essential worker, the family under shutdown, the spread of conspiracy theories, and the ideologies of the COVID-19 protests. The book conclude with commentary on the significance of the George Floyd protests and their connection to the pandemic.

Daniel Ian Rubin, Ph.D. (2013), New Mexico State University, is Adjunct Professor at the University of Redlands’ School of Education and a K12 English teacher. His research interests include antisemitism, English/Language Arts, and issues of social justice, multiculturalism, and diversity. Faith Agostinone Wilson, Ed.D. (1998), Oklahoma State University, is Professor of Education at Aurora University. She has published in the areas of media and policy analysis, including Enough Already! A Socialist Feminist Response to the Re-Emergence of Right-Wing Populism and Fascism in Media (Brill, 2020).

1 Introduction: What the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Revealed

2 Blame China: Trump and Anti-Asian Sentiment during COVID-19

1 Introduction

2 Ineptitude, Lies and Conspiracy Theories

3 Trump’s History of Racism

4 Asian Stereotypes Overview

5 The Media Construction of China as Economic Powerhouse

6 Treatment of Asians during COVID-19

7 Conclusion

3 Work or Die: The Dominance of the Capitalist Class in Determining Media Messaging around COVID-19

1 Introduction

2 Compartmentalization

3 Magical Thinking

4 “COVID Fatigue”

5 Subsidizing Normalcy

6 Conclusion

4 From “Disposable” to “Essential”: A Critical Analysis of the Worker

1 Introduction

2 The Value of the Worker

3 Perception of the Worker

4 Effects of COVID-19 on the Black and Latinx Worker

5 Big Business and Media Hypocrisy

6 Conclusion

5 Shutdown Meltdown: How the Quarantine Has Revealed the Ideological Collapse of the Nuclear Family Model

1 Introduction

2 Neoliberalism and the Nuclear Family

3 Existing Inequities

4 Do It Yourself

5 Conclusion: Reconsidering Capitalism

6 Misleading the Populace in the Age of the Coronavirus

1 Introduction

2 Laying the Groundwork

3 Fox and the COVID-19 Misinformation Machine

4 Trump, M.D. and the (Non) Experts

5 COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories

6 Conclusion

7 Unmasked: A Dialectical Exploration of the COVID-19 Protests

1 Introduction

2 Background

3 Core Themes

4 Conclusion

8 Conclusion: The George Floyd Protests as a Rejection of “Returning to Normal”

1 The Tipping Point

2 There’s No Going Back

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Critical Media Literacies Series ; 8
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	90-04-50000-6 / 9004500006
ISBN-13	978-90-04-50000-6 / 9789004500006
Zustand	Neuware