Moral panic about “covidiots” in Canadian newspaper coverage of COVID-19

Moral panics are moments of intense and widespread public concern about a specific group, whose behaviour is deemed a moral threat to the collective. We examined public health guidelines in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canadian newspaper editorials, columns and letters to the editor,...

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Published in:	PloS one 2022-01, Vol.17 (1), p.e0261942
Main Authors:	Capurro, Gabriela, Jardine, Cynthia G., Tustin, Jordan, Driedger, Michelle
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Anxieties Anxiety Behavior Canada Canada - epidemiology Coronaviruses COVID-19 COVID-19 - epidemiology COVID-19 - prevention & control COVID-19 - psychology COVID-19 vaccines Disease transmission Editorials Epidemics Female Funding Guidelines Health aspects Health risks Health sciences Humans Infection control Infections Influenza Male Marginalized groups Mass Media Media coverage Medicine and Health Sciences Moral panics Morality News media Newspapers as Topic Pandemics Panic People and places Public concern Public health Punishment Quarantine Respiratory diseases SARS-CoV-2 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Social aspects Social norms Social Sciences Threat evaluation
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