AUTHOR(S)
Harisur Rahman, Zhou Weiwei, Bulbul Siddiqi, Guo Jianbin, Tata Zafar

abstract
With the advent of COVID-19, social media mediated news, misinformation, disinformation, rumors, and viral content related to China and COVID-19 spread to every nook and cranny of the world, including Bangladesh. What types of media content (such as text, video, audio, and meme) associated with China and COVID-19 were circulated on social media in Bangladesh? How effective were the Chinese media outlets and information in countering anti-China rhetoric and propaganda related to COVID19 in Bangladesh? Drawing on Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis (CDA), we analyze Bangladeshi social media content related to China and COVID-19 that surfaced on Facebook and YouTube between January and June 2020 and advance some plausible answers to the above questions. We

DOI
https://doi.org/10.47126/nsjpgs.v1i1.04