{"title":"COVID-19 as an Ideal Case for a Rally-around-the-Flag?","authors":"P. Aelst","doi":"10.4324/9781003170051-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170051-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222394,"journal":{"name":"Political Communication in the Time of Coronavirus","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129825958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-07DOI: 10.4324/9781003170051-14
A. Carson, S. Ratcliff, L. Ruppanner
Understanding citizens’ use and trust in media are essential during a global health crisis when governments need to provide reliable information to enact public measures to reduce rates of illness and death. This chapter examines these relationships through repeated surveys in two comparable liberal democracies, the USA and Australia, during the COVID-19 pandemic. It finds that news engagement increased markedly in both countries in 2020 during the pandemic with television and newspapers being the most relied upon sources. Media trust was higher for citizens who prioritized established news sources and medical experts for coronavirus information. Yet, there is clear evidence that people’s news preferences are associated with their level of concern about the virus and support for government measures to contain it. Trump supporters were more inclined to trust information from family and friends on social media than from professional journalists. They were the group least concerned about catching the virus and most dissatisfied with government lockdown measures. The chapter finds greater political and media polarization and partisan distrust of experts in the USA compared to Australia. It concludes that polarization has serious real-world consequences for governments’ capacities to protect public health in this time of crisis.
{"title":"The Role of Political Polarization on American and Australian Trust and Media Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"A. Carson, S. Ratcliff, L. Ruppanner","doi":"10.4324/9781003170051-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170051-14","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding citizens’ use and trust in media are essential during a global health crisis when governments need to provide reliable information to enact public measures to reduce rates of illness and death. This chapter examines these relationships through repeated surveys in two comparable liberal democracies, the USA and Australia, during the COVID-19 pandemic. It finds that news engagement increased markedly in both countries in 2020 during the pandemic with television and newspapers being the most relied upon sources. Media trust was higher for citizens who prioritized established news sources and medical experts for coronavirus information. Yet, there is clear evidence that people’s news preferences are associated with their level of concern about the virus and support for government measures to contain it. Trump supporters were more inclined to trust information from family and friends on social media than from professional journalists. They were the group least concerned about catching the virus and most dissatisfied with government lockdown measures. The chapter finds greater political and media polarization and partisan distrust of experts in the USA compared to Australia. It concludes that polarization has serious real-world consequences for governments’ capacities to protect public health in this time of crisis.","PeriodicalId":222394,"journal":{"name":"Political Communication in the Time of Coronavirus","volume":"199 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114656314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Italian Prime Minister as a Captain in the Storm","authors":"G. Mazzoleni, Roberta Bracciale","doi":"10.4324/9781003170051-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170051-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222394,"journal":{"name":"Political Communication in the Time of Coronavirus","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122872155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Quandt, Svenja Boberg, Tim Schatto-Eckrodt, L. Frischlich
Journalistic crisis responses have been object of critical research, based on the analyses of wartime and terror reporting, as well as the coverage of natural disasters. This research notes that news media consistently fail to adequately cover political action during such crises, focusing too much on a limited set of political elite actors. Following this line of thought, the current analysis is interested in identifying general patterns of political reporting in the first nine months of the coronavirus crisis. In a large-scale computational content analysis of news media’s Facebook messages in Germany, we apply named entity recognition and network analysis in order to identify political actors: how they were connected to specific topics in the coverage, and how this has changed during the various phases of the pandemic. The analysis reveals a focus on governmental elite actors and a limited set of experts, while the parliamentary opposition did not receive much attention. In contrast, conspiracy theorists and some foreign actors were covered prominently. However, this focus was not uniform throughout the year, and in a later phase of the pandemic, the analysis reveals a “normalization” with a less reduced set of individualized political actors.
{"title":"Stooges of the System or Holistic Observers?","authors":"T. Quandt, Svenja Boberg, Tim Schatto-Eckrodt, L. Frischlich","doi":"10.4324/9781003170051-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170051-9","url":null,"abstract":"Journalistic crisis responses have been object of critical research, based on the analyses of wartime and terror reporting, as well as the coverage of natural disasters. This research notes that news media consistently fail to adequately cover political action during such crises, focusing too much on a limited set of political elite actors. Following this line of thought, the current analysis is interested in identifying general patterns of political reporting in the first nine months of the coronavirus crisis. In a large-scale computational content analysis of news media’s Facebook messages in Germany, we apply named entity recognition and network analysis in order to identify political actors: how they were connected to specific topics in the coverage, and how this has changed during the various phases of the pandemic. The analysis reveals a focus on governmental elite actors and a limited set of experts, while the parliamentary opposition did not receive much attention. In contrast, conspiracy theorists and some foreign actors were covered prominently. However, this focus was not uniform throughout the year, and in a later phase of the pandemic, the analysis reveals a “normalization” with a less reduced set of individualized political actors.","PeriodicalId":222394,"journal":{"name":"Political Communication in the Time of Coronavirus","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130715491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-07DOI: 10.4324/9781003170051-10
Stuart Davis
{"title":"More than “a Little Flu”","authors":"Stuart Davis","doi":"10.4324/9781003170051-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170051-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222394,"journal":{"name":"Political Communication in the Time of Coronavirus","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131214634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-07DOI: 10.4324/9781003170051-11
Gizem Melek, Emre I˙s¸eri
{"title":"When a Polarized Media System Meets a Pandemic","authors":"Gizem Melek, Emre I˙s¸eri","doi":"10.4324/9781003170051-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170051-11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222394,"journal":{"name":"Political Communication in the Time of Coronavirus","volume":"166 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122421935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With one of the highest number of cases and deaths in Europe, the COVID-19 pandemic had a massive impact on the UK and was a significant challenge for a newly elected government focusing on resolving its departure from the EU – an issue which continued to divide the nation. Prime Minister Johnson’s government initially played down the threat posed but the tone quickly changed in March when a full lockdown was instituted. The framing of lockdown coupled with his contraction of the virus led to initial high public support but from May public confidence declined as the government was forced to make a number of major U-turns. Strategies and styles across the nations of the UK diverged – Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in particular positioning herself as an alternative national leader within Scotland. The cracks in the union caused by Brexit have been exacerbated by the pandemic, Johnson and his government appear to have weakened credibility and to largely speak for England alone.
{"title":"From Consensus to Dissensus","authors":"R. Garland, D. Lilleker","doi":"10.4324/9781003170051-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170051-3","url":null,"abstract":"With one of the highest number of cases and deaths in Europe, the COVID-19 pandemic had a massive impact on the UK and was a significant challenge for a newly elected government focusing on resolving its departure from the EU – an issue which continued to divide the nation. Prime Minister Johnson’s government initially played down the threat posed but the tone quickly changed in March when a full lockdown was instituted. The framing of lockdown coupled with his contraction of the virus led to initial high public support but from May public confidence declined as the government was forced to make a number of major U-turns. Strategies and styles across the nations of the UK diverged – Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in particular positioning herself as an alternative national leader within Scotland. The cracks in the union caused by Brexit have been exacerbated by the pandemic, Johnson and his government appear to have weakened credibility and to largely speak for England alone.","PeriodicalId":222394,"journal":{"name":"Political Communication in the Time of Coronavirus","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115809669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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