Effects of misleading media coverage on public health crisis: a case of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in China
Effects of misleading media coverage on public health crisis: a case of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in China
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DOI：
10.1080/13032917.2020.1730621
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发表时间：
2020-02-18
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Ying, Tianyu
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作者：
Wen, Jun;Aston, Joshua;Ying, Tianyu
在武汉爆发的冠状病毒中国引发了一场全球疫情，世界卫生组织于2020年1月31日(北京时间)宣布这是一起国际关注的突发公共卫生事件。这场危机引起了媒体的强烈关注。最近，一些媒体不恰当地将冠状病毒贴上了种族的标签，使用了“中国病毒大流行”这样的标题，甚至建议“中国的孩子呆在家里”。通过西方媒体渠道进行的有偏见和误导性的报道在整个华人社区激起了愤怒，并对生活在中国之外的华人个人施加了不必要的压力。这篇发表后的评论从旅游的角度审视了2015年发表在《美国医学会精神病学》上的一项定量研究(Rodriguez-Seijas，Stohl，Hasin&Eaton，2015)的发现。这篇论文强调了误导性和有偏见的媒体报道对中国个人心理健康的潜在影响。具体地说，这项工作将冠状病毒引起的种族歧视视为一种公共健康危机，以及这种歧视对具有中国血统的个人的影响。同样当务之急是在危机时期对国家形象和目的地形象在旅游营销和游客行为方面产生相关影响。通过在冠状病毒爆发的背景下考虑种族主义，本文确定了旅游和酒店业相关研究的潜在途径。
The coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China has sparked a global epidemic, which the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern on 31st January 2020 (Beijing time). This crisis has attracted intense media attention. Recently, some media outlets inappropriately labelled the coronavirus by race, using such headlines as "Chinese virus pandemonium" and even suggesting "China kids stay home." The biased and misleading coverage presented via Western media channels has incited anger throughout the Chinese community and has placed undue stress upon Chinese individuals living outside China. This post-published review takes a tourism-focused perspective to examine findings from a quantitative study (Rodriguez-Seijas, Stohl, Hasin, & Eaton, 2015) published in 2015 in JAMA Psychiatry. The current paper highlights the potential impacts of misleading and biased media coverage on Chinese individuals' mental health. Specifically, this work considers perceived racial discrimination stemming from coronavirus as a public health crisis and the effects of such discrimination on individuals of Chinese heritage. Similarly imperative are pertinent effects on country image and destination image with respect to tourism marketing and tourist behaviour during times of crisis. By considering racism in the context of the coronavirus outbreak, this paper identifies potential avenues for relevant research in tourism and hospitality.