Victor Piaia, Sabrina Almeida, Tatiana Dourado, Marcela Canavarro, Dalby Dienstbach, Maria Sirleidy Cordeiro, Lucas Roberto da Silva, Danilo Carvalho
Background: This article looks at discourses using alleged scientific sources to support or oppose political positions on the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Analysis: The authors analyzed more than 3.3 million tweets, sorted according to linguistic rules, from a broader database of tweets related to the pandemic. The focus of this analysis was tweets containing affirmations, allusions, or questionings allegedly referring to scientific studies and hypotheses or authoritative sources in order to legitimize a position as being based on scientific truth. Conclusion and implication: The study shows that scientific sources are largely mobilized in networks of information and disinformation and are heavily present in a vast proportion of anti-science and negationist arguments.
{"title":"Science For All? Relating Actors, Links, and Discourses with (Fake) Scientific Claims About COVID-19 on Twitter","authors":"Victor Piaia, Sabrina Almeida, Tatiana Dourado, Marcela Canavarro, Dalby Dienstbach, Maria Sirleidy Cordeiro, Lucas Roberto da Silva, Danilo Carvalho","doi":"10.3138/cjc-2022-0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc-2022-0060","url":null,"abstract":"Background: This article looks at discourses using alleged scientific sources to support or oppose political positions on the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Analysis: The authors analyzed more than 3.3 million tweets, sorted according to linguistic rules, from a broader database of tweets related to the pandemic. The focus of this analysis was tweets containing affirmations, allusions, or questionings allegedly referring to scientific studies and hypotheses or authoritative sources in order to legitimize a position as being based on scientific truth. Conclusion and implication: The study shows that scientific sources are largely mobilized in networks of information and disinformation and are heavily present in a vast proportion of anti-science and negationist arguments.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738115","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}
Pauline Amiel, Olivier Baisnée, Jérôme Berthaut, Cyriac Gousset, Nicolas Hubé, Peter Maurer, Cornelia Mothes, Jérémie Nollet
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed journalistic practices and media roles in France and Germany. Analysis: As part of the Journalistic Role Performance Project (JRP), 9,438 articles published in France and Germany in 2020 were analyzed to determine trends in journalistic sources and the presence of six professional roles (watchdog, loyal facilitator, interventionist disseminator, service, infotainment, and civic) in news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusions and implications: Professional roles in French and German media production are similar despite the countries having distinct media systems. However, notable differences exist in terms of journalistic practices. German media are characterized by the use of sources to justify institutional decisions. In contrast, French journalistic content is less politicized with a focus on “health” sources.
{"title":"Permanences and Mutations in the French and German Media Systems during the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Pauline Amiel, Olivier Baisnée, Jérôme Berthaut, Cyriac Gousset, Nicolas Hubé, Peter Maurer, Cornelia Mothes, Jérémie Nollet","doi":"10.3138/cjc-2022-0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc-2022-0057","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed journalistic practices and media roles in France and Germany. Analysis: As part of the Journalistic Role Performance Project (JRP), 9,438 articles published in France and Germany in 2020 were analyzed to determine trends in journalistic sources and the presence of six professional roles (watchdog, loyal facilitator, interventionist disseminator, service, infotainment, and civic) in news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusions and implications: Professional roles in French and German media production are similar despite the countries having distinct media systems. However, notable differences exist in terms of journalistic practices. German media are characterized by the use of sources to justify institutional decisions. In contrast, French journalistic content is less politicized with a focus on “health” sources.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738140","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 : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.3138/cjc-2023-0014-fr
Camila Moreira Cesar, Thierry Giasson, David Dumouchel
{"title":"Médiatiser la pandémie de COVID-19 : regards internationaux","authors":"Camila Moreira Cesar, Thierry Giasson, David Dumouchel","doi":"10.3138/cjc-2023-0014-fr","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc-2023-0014-fr","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738121","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}
Pâmela Pinto, Maria João Antunes, Ana Margarida Almeida, Denis Renó
Background: There are few studies on the use of Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in low-income countries, even though Instagram is considered a tool to fight COVID-19. Analysis: This work applies both an exploratory approach and content analysis to study the Instagram profiles of Portugal’s National Health Service and Brazil’s Ministry of Health, as well as of citizens of these two countries, during the COVID-19 pandemic. 1,633 posts from these health authorities were analyzed. In addition, netnography methodology was applied to the analysis of a total of 48,691 posts. Conclusions: Citizens and sanitary authorities used Instagram as a space to discuss the pandemic. Citizens emphasized feelings and opinions through photos. For their part, authorities adopted the platform as an official communication channel, with limitations regarding the equity of their content.
{"title":"Instagram Use and Equity in Public Health: A Study on Brazil and Portugal During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Pâmela Pinto, Maria João Antunes, Ana Margarida Almeida, Denis Renó","doi":"10.3138/cjc-2022-0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc-2022-0059","url":null,"abstract":"Background: There are few studies on the use of Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in low-income countries, even though Instagram is considered a tool to fight COVID-19. Analysis: This work applies both an exploratory approach and content analysis to study the Instagram profiles of Portugal’s National Health Service and Brazil’s Ministry of Health, as well as of citizens of these two countries, during the COVID-19 pandemic. 1,633 posts from these health authorities were analyzed. In addition, netnography methodology was applied to the analysis of a total of 48,691 posts. Conclusions: Citizens and sanitary authorities used Instagram as a space to discuss the pandemic. Citizens emphasized feelings and opinions through photos. For their part, authorities adopted the platform as an official communication channel, with limitations regarding the equity of their content.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738143","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 : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.3138/cjc-2023-0014-en
Camila Moreira Cesar, Thierry Giasson, David Dumouchel
{"title":"Mediatizing the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Perspectives","authors":"Camila Moreira Cesar, Thierry Giasson, David Dumouchel","doi":"10.3138/cjc-2023-0014-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc-2023-0014-en","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738139","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}
François Claveau, Jean-Hugues Roy, Olivier Santerre
Background: Media representations of science have changed little over the past few decades, despite numerous calls for their enrichment. Analysis: The shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how the media represent science. This computational analysis of two large samples (news articles and Facebook posts) from French language news media in Canada describes and quantifies these changes. Conclusions and implications: Science has been more present in the media. It has generated more public interactions. It has become more associated with political regulation and more explicitly uncertain. Indeed, the authors measure a 20 to 25 percent shift on these variables.
{"title":"Science virale : comment la COVID-19 a changé la représentation médiatique de la science","authors":"François Claveau, Jean-Hugues Roy, Olivier Santerre","doi":"10.3138/cjc-2022-0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc-2022-0056","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Media representations of science have changed little over the past few decades, despite numerous calls for their enrichment. Analysis: The shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how the media represent science. This computational analysis of two large samples (news articles and Facebook posts) from French language news media in Canada describes and quantifies these changes. Conclusions and implications: Science has been more present in the media. It has generated more public interactions. It has become more associated with political regulation and more explicitly uncertain. Indeed, the authors measure a 20 to 25 percent shift on these variables.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":"433 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738142","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}
Background: This article addresses communications on Instagram by Québec Premier François Legault. We were particularly interested in his use of this platform to manage the COVID-19 crisis. For this article, we carried out a content, discourse, and visual analysis of the publications on the Instagram account of the Premier of Québec during two key periods, the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis from March 12 to April 13, 2020, and its continuation from January 6 to February 8, 2021. Analysis: We draw on a content, discourse, and visual analysis of the Premier’s messages on the Instagram platform to understand the strategies used by the Québec government on the Premier’s Instagram feed during the COVID-19 crisis. Conclusions and implications: Through this study, we show the uses of Instagram and how this platform was leveraged to communicate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Legault responded to the urgency of crisis management by showing strong leadership and staying on message.
{"title":"Analyse de l’image politique de François Legault sur Instagram pendant la crise de la COVID-19","authors":"Josée Beaulieu, Mireille Lalancette","doi":"10.3138/cjc-2022-0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc-2022-0061","url":null,"abstract":"Background: This article addresses communications on Instagram by Québec Premier François Legault. We were particularly interested in his use of this platform to manage the COVID-19 crisis. For this article, we carried out a content, discourse, and visual analysis of the publications on the Instagram account of the Premier of Québec during two key periods, the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis from March 12 to April 13, 2020, and its continuation from January 6 to February 8, 2021. Analysis: We draw on a content, discourse, and visual analysis of the Premier’s messages on the Instagram platform to understand the strategies used by the Québec government on the Premier’s Instagram feed during the COVID-19 crisis. Conclusions and implications: Through this study, we show the uses of Instagram and how this platform was leveraged to communicate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Legault responded to the urgency of crisis management by showing strong leadership and staying on message.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738117","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}
Background: A descriptive statistical analysis was performed on Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s (ISED) spectrum consultations from 2008 to 2021, along with a qualitative case study of the 2019 consultation on the 3500 MHz band. Analysis: The statistical analysis evinces the dominance of corporate participation in spectrum consultations, particularly by large wireless service providers. This article examines the relationship between the complicated technical framing of spectrum management issues and the corresponding lack of public participation. Conclusions and implications: To address the lack of public participation in spectrum management, the article proposes an adaptation of the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel’s recommendation for a public interest committee for ISED’s consultation process.
{"title":"Framing Issues: Public Participation in Canadian Wireless Spectrum Consultations","authors":"Kris Joseph, Michael B. McNally","doi":"10.3138/cjc.2022-0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc.2022-0022","url":null,"abstract":"Background: A descriptive statistical analysis was performed on Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s (ISED) spectrum consultations from 2008 to 2021, along with a qualitative case study of the 2019 consultation on the 3500 MHz band. Analysis: The statistical analysis evinces the dominance of corporate participation in spectrum consultations, particularly by large wireless service providers. This article examines the relationship between the complicated technical framing of spectrum management issues and the corresponding lack of public participation. Conclusions and implications: To address the lack of public participation in spectrum management, the article proposes an adaptation of the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel’s recommendation for a public interest committee for ISED’s consultation process.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48422593","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}
Background: The conjunctural moment of COVID-19 provides a window of opportunity to glean insights into the relationship between moral panics and emerging infectious disease narratives. Analysis: Using Penelope Ironstone’s 2020 essay on COVID-19 in keywords as a starting point, this article critically reflects on the ways that progressive social interests were unable to gain an upper hand in the process of narrating and defining the contradictions that were condensed in the crisis spurred by COVID-19. Conclusions and implications: The article extends Ironstone’s critique by explaining how COVID-19 keywords were expressed through a dominant pandemic narrative that discouraged as much as it incited moral panic by framing the preferred response to the crisis in terms of individualized coping strategies promising relative security from infection.
{"title":"Suppressing the Crisis: Moral Panics, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and the COVID-19 Conjuncture","authors":"Sean P. Hier","doi":"10.3138/cjc.2022-0080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc.2022-0080","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The conjunctural moment of COVID-19 provides a window of opportunity to glean insights into the relationship between moral panics and emerging infectious disease narratives. Analysis: Using Penelope Ironstone’s 2020 essay on COVID-19 in keywords as a starting point, this article critically reflects on the ways that progressive social interests were unable to gain an upper hand in the process of narrating and defining the contradictions that were condensed in the crisis spurred by COVID-19. Conclusions and implications: The article extends Ironstone’s critique by explaining how COVID-19 keywords were expressed through a dominant pandemic narrative that discouraged as much as it incited moral panic by framing the preferred response to the crisis in terms of individualized coping strategies promising relative security from infection.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46592280","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":"Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure. By Michael Truscello","authors":"David Grondin","doi":"10.3138/cjc.2022-0077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc.2022-0077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49236809","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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