The Crisis of Information about the News of the Covid-19 Vaccine in News Agencies in the first year of the Epidemic in Iran

Navabi, Aida; Roshanfekr, Payam; Rezvani, Saeideh

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Volume 9, Issue 4 (3-2021)

scds 2021, 9(4): 133-163

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The Crisis of Information about the News of the Covid-19 Vaccine in News Agencies in the first year of the Epidemic in Iran

Aida Navabi

, Payam Roshanfekr

, Saeideh Rezvani

Allameh Tabatabai University

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Focusing on one of the most important issues during the Corona pandemic, this article seeks to evaluate the challenges that existed in the media management of this crisis. Studying this issue is important in considering the importance of mass media's mission in representing the reality and making decisions to manage the crisis situation in pandemics. Due to the specific characteristics of crises, informing in these conditions faces serious challenges. In the Corona crisis, informing about this emerging virus and providing news related to Covid-19 was not an exception to this rule. One of the important issues about the Corona Virus was related to the issue of the vaccine as the most important ways to treat it. Using the qualitative content analysis method, this article will analyze the way of providing information about the Covid-19 vaccine in domestic news agencies during the first year of the emergence of the Corona pandemic, i.e. from March 2018 to the end of 2019, coming to the conclusion that the information Reporting in the first year of the epidemic was accompanied by many crises such as lack of transparency, contradictions in the comments of officials, conflict of interests and multiple sources of information.

Keywords: Corona Vaccine, Crisis, Media, Notices, Risk Society

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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2021/07/26 | Accepted: 2021/10/30 | Published: 2022/03/30

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