{"title":"COVID: a pandemic of metaphor","authors":"P. Treichler","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2021.2020860","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Arriving in the U.S. in early 2020, COVID-19 is called “the deadliest pandemic since the 1918 flu.” Mitigation measures include masks and vaccinations, but many resist and demonstrate against them. The unvaccinated continue to harbor the virus; they now form the largest group of COVID patients in hospitals, enabling the virus to continue to spread. Diverse conservative and far-right sources push conspiracy theories and other disinformation that fuel resistance to mitigation, claiming in some cases that the pandemic is a hoax. COVID metaphors themselves, however, suggest lines of counter-argument and ways to potentially shift their meanings and consequences.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"8 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2021.2020860","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Arriving in the U.S. in early 2020, COVID-19 is called “the deadliest pandemic since the 1918 flu.” Mitigation measures include masks and vaccinations, but many resist and demonstrate against them. The unvaccinated continue to harbor the virus; they now form the largest group of COVID patients in hospitals, enabling the virus to continue to spread. Diverse conservative and far-right sources push conspiracy theories and other disinformation that fuel resistance to mitigation, claiming in some cases that the pandemic is a hoax. COVID metaphors themselves, however, suggest lines of counter-argument and ways to potentially shift their meanings and consequences.
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Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (CC/CS) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CC/CS publishes original scholarship that situates culture as a site of struggle and communication as an enactment and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic and theoretical boundaries. CC/CS welcomes a variety of methods including textual, discourse, and rhetorical analyses alongside auto/ethnographic, narrative, and poetic inquiry.
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