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

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-49999-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 344 g

Reihe: Critical Media Literacies Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rubin, Daniel Ian

Agostinone Wilson, Faith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Affektive, soziale und ethische Ziele in der Erziehung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).