Media Ecology Activism

The Media Coverage of COVID-19 and its Responses

Abstract

The dynamics of media coverage in the early days of COVID-19 played a role in disseminating information to the public. Taking with media ecological perspective, this phenomena could be describe with more detail. How society exposured by media, and otherwise. This paper use netnography method regarding the dynamics of the media environment in COVID-19. Reporting with seven selected online news media headlines and two feeds on social media which impacted massively to the public. The data took during February-April 2020 where plethora of vaccine information growing fast among the country. Based on the data, trying to examine how online mainstream media and social media could impact the environment dynamically.

Keywords: Media Ecology, COVID-19, News, Hoax, Digital Public Sphere