Political communication and COVID-19 : Governance and rhetoric in global comparative perspective
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003120254-32/" target="_blank" >https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003120254-32/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003120254-32" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003120254-32</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Political communication and COVID-19 : Governance and rhetoric in global comparative perspective
Original language description
This concluding chapter draws together data from the case study chapters to gain an understanding of the role of political communication during the pandemic and the way strategies were instituted within nations. We find across the phases of the crisis a range of differing strategies but four common themes. Firstly, crises exacerbate the trend towards personalisation. Secondly, the crucial role of the mass media in informing the public, but also the fact that tensions between the political and media spheres remain prevalent. Thirdly, we suggest that social media plays a largely positive role, despite being described as causing an infodemic, it was used far more to bring communities together. Finally, where misinformation prevailed, and tensions over measures became prominent, this was due to severe systemic polarisation existing which prevented messages of unity and calls to rally around the flag being adhered to. Hence political crises and instability create the conditions for the effects of a pandemic to be felt worse; given the parlous state of many of the world’s populations, these factors are likely to exacerbate this or future crises.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Political Communication and COVID-19 : Governance and Rhetoric in Times of Crisis
ISBN
9780367636791
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
333-350
Number of pages of the book
372
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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