Media’s Broader Roles in Mitigating COVID-19

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10.2991/assehr.k.201014.082How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Media, role, mitigation, COVID-19

Abstract

A declaration of public health emergency of international concern on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO) has challenged mass media to better represent health and illness regarding the global pandemic more proportionally. This study aims at exploring the top priorities of media mitigation on COVID-19 proposed by communication students. Media is found as a reliable source of updated information and public communication campaign on healthier life. Findings suggest a broader role of media is necessary to resolve the pandemic as well as to encourage individual’s survival both psychologically and physically. Such role entails the provision of accurate data for public and World Health Organization (WHO) consumption. At the same time media is required to report good news occurred to maintain optimism among individuals. The next crucial role is to continuously promote preventive behaviours as a part of new normal during the pandemic era. The last involves media-based crowdfunding to help those affected by the pandemic. It is then necessary to test whether or not those roles mitigate the pandemic in future research.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tsuroyya
AU  - Danang Tandyonomanu
AU  - Gilang Gusti Aji
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/15
TI  - Media’s Broader Roles in Mitigating COVID-19
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 386
EP  - 389
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201014.082
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201014.082
ID  - 2020
ER  -