COVID-19 Pandemic and Risks in East Asia

Nobuto Yamamoto is Professor at the Department of Politics, Keio University, Japan. His areas of research include politics and history of Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia. He is the author of Censorship in Colonial Indonesia, 1901–1942 (2019) and editor of many books in Japanese.

• 1 Introduction: Risk Society and the COVID-19 Pandemic in East AsiaNOBUTO YAMAMOTO2 COVID-19 as a Catalyst of Global Risk Society:Institutionalization, De-Westernization, and Datafication of Crisis Communication Research MARTIN LÖFFELHOLZ, PAULINE GIDGET ESTELLA, AND YI XU3 Information Literacy or Political Propaganda: Analyzing the Taiwan Government’s Responsive Strategies to COVID-19 Infodemic CHIUNG-WEN HSU AND YUN-CHUNG TANG4 “Noise” in Communicating Risk about the COVID-19 Pandemic in Taiwan: The Impact of Uncivil Online Messages TSUNG-JEN SHIH5 A Sense of the Public: Japan and Vietnam VU LE THAO CHI6 Psychological Responses, Health Literacy, and Information Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan and Korea JINAH LEE7 Media Cynicism, Risk Perception of COVID-19, and the Civil Values in Japan and Korea KWANGHO LEE8 Mediated Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Emotion in Japan SHUZO YAMAKOSHI AND FUMIE MITANI9 Coronationalism in the Risk Society: The Nationalist Discourses of Taiwanese Professional Baseball during the Outbreak of COVID-19 CHANG-DE LIU10 Troubled Togetherness in the Pandemic: The Analysis of “Special Social Cluster” in Taiwan NIEN HSUAN FANG11 The Digital Divide among Women Slum Dwellers during the Pandemic VIOLET B. VALDEZ AND SAMANTHA P. JAVIER