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

Wormer, Holger

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%T German Media and Coronavirus: Exceptional Communication - Or Just a Catalyst for Existing Tendencies?
%A Wormer, Holger
%J Media and Communication
%N 2
%P 467-470
%V 8
%D 2020
%K coronavirus; fake news; journalism funding
%@ 2183-2439
%U https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3242
%X 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.
%C PRT
%G en
%9 Zeitschriftenartikel
%W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org
%~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info