著者

坂田 正三

出版者

一般財団法人 アジア政経学会

雑誌

アジア研究 (ISSN:00449237)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.67, no.4, pp.72-84, 2021-10-31 (Released:2021-11-16)

参考文献数

36

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Vietnam became a country the world praised for its successful control of the COVID-19 infection in 2020. The government’s information management was one of the key elements for curbing the spread of COVID-19 in Vietnam. The government proactively disclosed information to the public and the international community regarding the infection’s status, and called on the public through various media platforms to take actions to prevent infection and cope with coercive lockdown.Such postures of information management today are not new, but have descended from the strategies that the regimes have historically employed. The purpose of this paper is to examine the information management strategies in the event of epidemics in Vietnam. The paper first looks back on the history of epidemics and information management in Vietnam from the 19th century to the 2000s, and discusses how the present Communist Party and the government have shaped the strategies of information dissemination and propaganda. The paper then analyzes, focusing on the period of time during which COVID-19 spread in 2020, the contents and impacts of propaganda transmitted through various media platforms.The regimes in Vietnam have always endeavored to acquire scientific knowledge about epidemics because many of the epidemics that Vietnam has experienced were unknown diseases brought from abroad, or traditionally existed calamities whose causes and countermeasures were unknown. Since the outbreak of SARS in 2002, the Vietnamese government has applied strategies to acquire resources and scientific information from the international public health regimes, in exchange for disclosure of information about domestic infection. At the same time, the Communist Party and the government have taken multifaceted media control, utilizing traditional media such as propaganda posters and loud speakers on the streets to the modern information platforms on the Internet and SNS. These platforms are used to inform the population at large of the actions necessary to prevent infection.This paper also reveals that patriotic rhetoric and war-time analogies have often been used to mobilize the public to take actions, thereby representing the political aspects of the epidemic prevention measures. The strong slogans (e.g., “staying home is loving the nation”) conveyed to the public can be interpreted as messages to justify the presence of the Communist Party’s authoritarian regimes and its top-down policy implementation mechanism.

著者

坂田 正三 石塚 二葉

出版者

独立行政法人 日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所

雑誌

アジア動向年報 (ISSN:09151109)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2014, pp.231-258, 2014 (Released:2023-02-10)