Department of Political Science, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
Abstract
< p >Media, as one the most important means of creating and displaying soft power, has a key role in persuading and attracting the people. Media with a dual contradictory nature and function can cause informing, insightfulness, and hopefulness of the people in COVID-19 crisis; on the other hand, they can spread wrong information, fear, and anxiety. The aim of this study is to investigate the role and function of media in COVID-19 crisis and their effect on public opinion in Iran and the US. In Iran, the foreign opposition media considered the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity for an invasion against the Iran, inculcating a denial of reality, offering an inappropriate picture for the role of religion, and being in different to the role of science in facing the disease. However, after powerful west countries became inflicted with COVID-19, the opposition media attempted to cast doubt on the Iranian toward the information announced by the National Committee of Fighting with COVID-19. The domestic media have made an attempt by informing and professional analysis in order to cause peace in Iran’s society. according to the polling centers in the US, at the beginning of the crisis, the media, in the domestic arena, planned to inform people and teach how to face the disease, and in the foreign arena, aimed to deteriorate the China’s face before the public opinion. However, considering the nature and function of the party for the media, they were gradually inclined to criticize the party opponent using this crisis.
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Karimifard,H. (2020). COVID-19 Pandemic: Soft Power; Role and Function of Media and Public Opinion (With emphasis on Iran and the US). Soft power Studies, 10(22), 77-113.
MLA
Karimifard,H. . "COVID-19 Pandemic: Soft Power; Role and Function of Media and Public Opinion (With emphasis on Iran and the US)", Soft power Studies, 10, 22, 2020, 77-113.
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Karimifard H. (2020). 'COVID-19 Pandemic: Soft Power; Role and Function of Media and Public Opinion (With emphasis on Iran and the US)', Soft power Studies, 10(22), pp. 77-113.
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