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German Media and Coronavirus: Exceptional Communication—Or Just a Catalyst for Existing Tendencies?

Author(s) -

Holger Wormer

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

media and communication

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.804

H-Index - 19

ISSN - 2183-2439

DOI - 10.17645/mac.v8i2.3242

Subject(s) - german , covid-19 , journalism , pandemic , perspective (graphical) , coronavirus , political science , public relations , media studies , sociology , history , medicine , virology , outbreak , art , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , archaeology , pathology , visual arts

The Covid-19 pandemic has immediate effects on science journalism and science communication in general, which in a few cases are atypical and likely to disappear again after the crisis. However, from a German perspective, there is some evidence that the crisis—and its accompanying ‘infodemic’—has, above all, accelerated and made more visible existing developments and deficits as well as an increased need for funding of science journalism.

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