Nobuto Yamamoto is Professor at the Department of Politics, Keio University, Japan. His areas of research include politics and history of Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia. He is the author of Censorship in Colonial Indonesia, 1901-1942 (2019) and editor of many books in Japanese.

1 Introduction: Risk Society and the COVID-19 Pandemic in East Asia
NOBUTO YAMAMOTO

2 COVID-19 as a Catalyst of Global Risk Society:
Institutionalization, De-Westernization, and Datafication of Crisis Communication Research
MARTIN LÖFFELHOLZ, PAULINE GIDGET ESTELLA, AND YI XU

3 Information Literacy or Political Propaganda: Analyzing the Taiwan Government's Responsive Strategies to COVID-19 Infodemic
CHIUNG-WEN HSU AND YUN-CHUNG TANG

4 "Noise" in Communicating Risk about the COVID-19 Pandemic in Taiwan: The Impact of Uncivil Online Messages
TSUNG-JEN SHIH

5 A Sense of the Public: Japan and Vietnam
VU LE THAO CHI

6 Psychological Responses, Health Literacy, and Information Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan and Korea
JINAH LEE

7 Media Cynicism, Risk Perception of COVID-19, and the Civil Values in Japan and Korea
KWANGHO LEE

8 Mediated Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Emotion in Japan
SHUZO YAMAKOSHI AND FUMIE MITANI

9 Coronationalism in the Risk Society: The Nationalist Discourses of Taiwanese Professional Baseball during the Outbreak of COVID-19
CHANG-DE LIU

10 Troubled Togetherness in the Pandemic: The Analysis of "Special Social Cluster" in Taiwan
NIEN HSUAN FANG

11 The Digital Divide among Women Slum Dwellers during the Pandemic
VIOLET B. VALDEZ AND SAMANTHA P. JAVIER