Special Issue: Pandemic Asia. 2020 July.
The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Volume 18 | Issue 14 | Number 6 | Article ID 5418 | Jul 11, 2020
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Social Media and China's Virus Outbreak

Anonymous

Abstract:
In the early stage of the coronavirus outbreak in China, social media were bursting with anger and desperation. Many pleaded for medical help, called for public attention to the unattended and asked for accountability for local officials who failed to respond to the public health crisis in time. But with the epicenter shifting to Europe and North America, a series of social media tactics, highlighting China’s successful containment efforts, while disparaging foreign countries’ responses, and spinning the origin of the coronavirus outbreak, facilitated a nationalist takeover of social media sites in China.

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