COVID-19 Pandemic and Risks in East Asia

<p>Using risk as a conceptual lens this book analyzes how communities across East Asia responded to the disruption unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic. </p><p>The contributors to this book look at how governments societies and individuals have perceived experienced dealt with and interpreted the pandemic and the transformations it has brought across countries like Japan South Korea Taiwan Vietnam and the Philippines. They examine pressing concerns such as infodemic digital health literacy media cynicism telework and digital inequalities in conjunction with issues such as public trust identity formation nationalism and social fragmentation. They look at a wide range of questions relating to communication mediation and reactions to the challenges of the pandemic. </p><p>An insightful resource for scholars of risk studies and of East Asian societies the book is also a valuable reference for students and researchers of media and communication studies and sociology. </p>