Manufacturing Government Communication on Covid-19: A Comparative Perspective

390 Pages·2022·13.2 MB·English

by  Philippe J. Maarek

Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication
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Manufacturing
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cation(www.ceccopop.eu).
Book published with the help of the EUR-CREATES Faculty of the University
Côted’Azur(UCA).
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Contents
Introduction:SimilarandDissimilarPatternsofGovernment
CommunicationonCOVID-19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PhilippeJ.Maarek
PartI OrganizingCentralizedGovernmentStrategies
ProsandConsoftheEUResponseandCommunicationduring
COVID-19Crisis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
InnaŠteinbuka
FightingCOVID-19byNationalMobilization:ACommunicative
AnalysisoftheRolesoftheChineseGovernment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
DeqiangJiandLuLiu
CrisisCommunicationDuringthePandemic:Latvia’sCase. . . . . . . . . . 59
ŽanetaOzoliņaandSigitaStruberga
SouthKorea’sOn-GoingBattlewithCOVID-19:FromMasksto
Vaccinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
SeraChoiandJangyulRobertKim
NoLockdownPlease,WeAreSwedish:HowtheMiddleWay
CountryBecameanExtremeCaseofGovernmentCommunication. . . . 107
LarsNord
PartII LocalVersusNational
NationalLeadershipVersusRegionalCommand:TheCase
oftheSpanishCOVID-19Crisis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
MartaRebolledoandJordiRodríguez-Virgili
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x Contents
Rituals,Reassurance,andCompliance:GovernmentCommunication
inAustraliaduringtheCOVID-19Pandemic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
SallyYoung
ContrastingFederalandStateGovernmentCommunication
onFacebookinBrazil:ContradictoryMessagesandRealities. . . . . . . . 175
AndreaMedradoandAdilsonCabral
GovernmentCommunicationPolicyforDealingwiththeCOVID-19,
theCaseofIsrael:HowtoExplaintoGroupswithUnique
CommunicationCharacteristicsaUniversalPhenomenon. . . . . . . . . . . 199
HillelNossek
PartIII TakingtheLeader’sWay
TrumpConfrontsCOVIDinPressBriefingsandonTwitter. . . . . . . . . 215
MarionR.Just,JosephSaraceno,andAnnN.Crigler
“TheSituationIsSerious”:AngelaMerkel’sCrisisCommunication
intheCOVID-19Pandemic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
JulianaRaupp
TheItalianGovernment’sPandemicCommunicationfrom
GiuseppeContetoMarioDraghi:Between“LeadershipBuilding”
and“CrisisResolution”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
SofiaVentura
PartIV TheWeightofGovernmentCredibility
TheGreeksandtheCOVID-19Pandemic:AssessingtheCredibility
andEffectivenessoftheMainSocialInstitutionsandPublicSphere
Players. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
StylianosPapathanassopoulos,AntonisArmenakis,andAchilleas
Karadimitriou
“NotOneRuleforEveryone”:TheImpactofEliteRule-Breaking
onPublicTrustintheUK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
TabithaA.BakerandDarrenLilleker
TheMessenger,theMessage,andtheReceiver:SouthAfrican
GovernmentCommunicationDuringtheCOVID-19Pandemic. . . . . . . 319
HermanWassermanandDaniMadrid-Morales
COVID-19andGovernmentCommunicationinPoland. . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
MałgorzataWiniarska-Brodowska
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PartV TheImportanceofSocialMedia
RedefiningtheCitizen-GovernmentRelationship:Policy
CommunicationThroughOnlineMediainCOVID-EraJapan. . . . . . .. 355
LeslieTkach-Kawasaki
Avosseringues:FrenchGovernmentalCommunication
onCOVID-19VaccinationviaTwitter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
AlexanderFrame,GillesBrachotte,andAfefSelmi