Media& Communication played a paramount role in disseminating information about Covid-19. The media’s role became more prominent/ dominant in a sense that corona virus was not confined to a particular region/ nation but it transcended across the globe affecting the mankind all over. Its debilitating impact was felt in every home all across the planet earth.
In such a situation media played a vital role in dispersing information about it vis a vis creating awareness about how diverse nations and diverse systems of governance dealt with it. Rightly described as ‘Pandemic’ the Covid-19 impacted one and all—the Communist China as much as democratic Europe and America and many parts of Southern Asia including India apart from the totalitarian regimes of Middle East and Eastern Europe.
The systems of governance effectively under the siege of the Covid holocaust are as much huffing and puffing to justify themselves as much the virus infected people to survive. The unprecedented chaos caused by the virus created enormous confusion. While the governments tried to conceal real statistics related to deaths and vaccination, the media too became party to misinformation in certain instances and vehicle to transport the fake/unverified news.
Since, the spell of Pandemic is still prevailing, fundamental necessity requires a systematic and empirical data based study to churn out the facts that could be of lasting value and serve the critical assessment of the enormity of the damage it has caused and is still causing to the humanity. This conference will aim at studying and deliberating on the role of media in reporting the science of vaccination being accepted as an eventual panacea to the people falling prey to the disease.
The conference also aims at studying the role of media in bringing out the collateral damage caused by Covid-19 on the economy, infrastructure, education, employment, societal norms and values apart from the general health.