Media of Trust: Visualizing the Pandemic
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Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes Towards an Inventory . ed. / Laliv Melamed; Philipp Dominik Keidl; Vinzenz Hediger; Antonio Somaini. Lüneburg: meson press, 2020. p. 231-240.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Media of Trust
T2 - Visualizing the Pandemic
AU - Hoof, Florian
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This article looks at the media of trust that immediately started to fill the blank spaces of pandemic uncertainty. They are in a position to create trust because they are bound to a visual and oral culture the society is acquainted with. This includes visualization devices such as dashboards that monitor the pandemic situation or podcasts that provide expert knowledge in a situation of extreme uncertainty. Media of trust are two-fold. The first dimension provides an overview of the pandemic and gives orientation in a situation of uncertainty. These visualization devices stem from a visual culture tied to managerial decision-making. The tensions that arise when such specific concepts are repurposed to visualize pandemic situations lead to the second dimension of media of trust. This includes oral media aimed at the individual, personal level that become important in situations of isolation during lockdown.
AB - This article looks at the media of trust that immediately started to fill the blank spaces of pandemic uncertainty. They are in a position to create trust because they are bound to a visual and oral culture the society is acquainted with. This includes visualization devices such as dashboards that monitor the pandemic situation or podcasts that provide expert knowledge in a situation of extreme uncertainty. Media of trust are two-fold. The first dimension provides an overview of the pandemic and gives orientation in a situation of uncertainty. These visualization devices stem from a visual culture tied to managerial decision-making. The tensions that arise when such specific concepts are repurposed to visualize pandemic situations lead to the second dimension of media of trust. This includes oral media aimed at the individual, personal level that become important in situations of isolation during lockdown.
KW - Media and communication studies
U2 - 10.14619/0085
DO - 10.14619/0085
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-3-95796-008-5
SP - 231
EP - 240
BT - Pandemic Media
A2 - Melamed, Laliv
A2 - Keidl, Philipp Dominik
A2 - Hediger, Vinzenz
A2 - Somaini, Antonio
PB - meson press
CY - Lüneburg
ER -