MEDIA IN THE TIME OF THE PANDEMIC
MEDIA IN THE TIME OF THE PANDEMIC

Summary/Abstract: The presented paper deals with the significance and role of media, their impact on the wide public and the question of credibility of information. The attention is mainly paid to global pandemics which have broken out in the last few years including the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors analyse the number of media outputs while comparing them according to their specific media types and pandemics. Special attention is paid to the proportion of specific media types in the total number of media outputs, number of media outputs and number of shared posts on social sites for the period from January 1 to November 10, 2020, comparison of the number of media outputs by online media during specific pandemics, media behaviour of the public during the coronavirus pandemic and comparison of traffic rates on the selected media before and after the coronavirus outbreak in Slovakia. The authors focus also on the question of credibility of media and a fake news phenomenon. Simultaneously, they define the changes to media behaviour due to the pandemic and emphasise the need to keep trust in traditional media and eliminate the spread of fake news.

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