Global Media Journal Australia Special Issue: Covideology: Mediating the Significance of a Pandemic

In developing the call for papers for this issue of GMJ/AU in September of 2020, little did we know the pandemic would not only be unfinished by the time of publication, but that it would be raging unchecked with deadly consequences through 2021. As we wrote: Over the last few months from early 2020, we have been waking up to a world that is less recognisable and less familiar to what we would have expected of our current lives and livelihoods. Living with the pandemic, however, was also living with its daily mediations, sometimes painful in their shortcomings, from our local media to the politically motivated disinformation of the Trump White House. It appeared from early on that information would be a hot commodity, and throughout 2020, the media itself became a hotly contested space when it came to dealing with the pandemic. As such, we are pleased to publish a range of papers that approach the phenomenon of COVID from a raft of perspectives with close attention to mediation and public communications. Full issue can be accessed via: https://www.hca.westernsydney.edu.au/gmjau/?issues=volume-15-issue-1-2021