[Air-L] Cross-cultural digital religion in the age of corona?

[Mark D. Johns]

Charles,

You are correct that the national news media in the U.S. have not
given a lot of attention to children, local stations have done so. Two
network affiliates in our top-20 market have run stories just in the
past two days:
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video/4492262-your-questions-about-kids-coronavirus-answered/
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/families-figuring-out-coping-techniques-during-social-distancing/89-712b30c1-c10b-48c5-a2f3-bd59e5eb9dad

and a quick Google search turned up these from other markets:
https://www.ksla.com/2020/03/23/suffering-silence-covid-increased-risk-child-abuse/
https://fox6now.com/2020/03/23/texas-hospital-sees-spike-in-severe-child-abuse-cases-possibly-related-to-covid-19-stress/

Understanding how news media work, I also searched for PR activity
that may have triggered some of these stories, and discovered this
from Monday:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/school-closings-due-to-covid-19-present-potential-for-increased-risk-of-child-exploitation

An interesting line of research. Hope you and Connie are well.
--
Mark D. Johns, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies
at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA
now residing in Minneapolis, MN
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"Get the facts first. You can distort them later."
    ---Mark Twain

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 1:29 AM Charles M. Ess <c.m.ess at media.uio.no> wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> On 23/03/2020 11:01, Sally Applin wrote:
> > You might query Yale’s HRAF ethnography database (if you have access) to
> > see what non- broadcast traditions are.
>
> Thanks much for this - certainly useful, rich and interesting.  I'm not
> seeing, on first blush at least, much that intersects with Digital
> Religion.  As interesting and useful as the materials on religion are,
> "digital" as a search term returns no results. Nor do the terms
> "Scandinavian," "Denmark," etc.  But will keep poking for all the other
> goodies to be gleaned.
> >
> > The broadcast time/ routine may have nothing to do with the material or
> > even culture and more to do with suddenly being at home.
>
> or all of the above.
> Regrets for not making explicit that yes, most people in Norway and
> Denmark have been under quarantine and related restrictions for some
> time, e.g., since March 12 in the Norwegian case.
>
> And a fourth data point: in Norwegian coverage of all of these disasters
> - it is striking that somewhere around the 3rd or 4th prioritized story
> on national news covers apparently widespread and deep concerns about
> the welfare of children who are likely susceptible to violence and
> sexual attack.  Now that schools and kindergartens are closed, these
> (usually) safe havens for such children are no longer available: what,
> reporters keep asking, is the government doing to protect these children
> under the new circumstances?
>
> None of my U.S.-based news media, even the most left-wing, etc. seem to
> mention this.  Please let me know if I'm missing something.
>
> Again, many thanks and all best despite it all,
> - charles
>
> >
> >
> > Sally Applin, Ph.D.
>
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