COM105e: COVID-19 was First Reported from Wuhan, China, in December 2019: Media Communication in a Changing World Assignment, SUSS, Singapore

TMA01

Answer the following question.

COVID-19 was first reported from Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and has rapidly spread to many countries and territories to become a global pandemic. The unabated and rapid proliferation of real and fake news and information about the health epidemic was largely facilitated by social media platforms.

1. Discuss how social media thrives as a cultural forum in the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. Evaluate the extent to which you feel you have acted as a responsible participant in the cultural forum in the crisis.

Provide examples to illustrate and support your answer.

TMA02

Answer the following question.

Select ONE web-based publication from the following:

• HuffPost (https://www.huffpost.com/)
• The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/international/)

1. Analyse the ease of differentiating advertisements from editorial content for readers of the selected publication. To what extent do you feel it is successful in achieving editorial integrity?
2. Make your own observations of the publication and explain your answer with ample examples from the site.