1st Edition
Risk Communication and COVID-19 Governmental Communication and Management of Pandemic
Introduction
Ioana A. Coman, Darren Lilleker and Miloš Gregor
1. Risk Communication During Crisis and Post-Crisis Loops: How Governments Communicated about COVID-19 and the Vaccines – Conceptual Framework
Ioana A. Coman, Darren Lilleker and Miloš Gregor
Part II: National Case Studies
2. Ghana: Communicating State Capacity Through Humour and Strategic Absences
Matthew Sabbi
3. South Africa: Government Messaging During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ndivhoniswani Aaron Tshidzumba and Lusanda Beauty Juta
4. Brazil: From Denialism to Cynicism
Ícaro Joathan de Sousa, Diógenes Lycarião Barreto de Sousa and Cláudia Ferreira Santos
5. Mexico: Governmental Communication and Management of the Pandemic of COVID-19 – The “Vespertinas” as Communication Strategy
Andrea Samaniego Sanchez
6. The United States: A Fragmented and Inconsistent Response in a Polarised Environment
John M. Callahan and Robert Jensen
7. Czechia: From Chaos and Ignorance to Calm and Vaccination – Government Communication on COVID-19
Otto Eibl and Miloš Gregor
8. Italy: Managing Risk and Crisis Communication in the Context of Political Instability
Alessandro Lovari
9. Sweden: the Quiet Consensus
Bengt Johansson and Orla Vigsø
10. Egypt: From Empathetic Rhetoric to Pragmatism – Addressing Healthcare Inequities in the COVID-19 Response
Dalia Elsheikh
11. Iran: On the Front Lines and Yet Isolated – During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Josef Kraus and Rasool Akbari
12. Israel: COVID-19 and Public Information
Yoel Cohen
13. India: The Message, the Messenger, the Messiah – COVID-19 Communication under Modi
Chindu Sreedharan
14. Vietnam: Dynamic Response and Communication Strategy in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tuong-Minh Ly-Le, Viet Tho Le and Thi Tuyet Nguyen
15. Thailand: Inconsistency and Obscurity of Government-led Communication During the Pandemic
Waraporn Chatratichart, Yaninee Petcharanan and Phansasiri Kularb
16. Japan: Risk Communication and COVID-19
Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki
17. China: Unraveling Crisis Communication – Assessing Strategies in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Menglin Liu and Shan Xu
18. Aotearoa New Zealand: The World-beating Response that Lost its Lustre
Ben Thurlow
Conclusion: Risk Communication during COVID-19 and National and Global Lessons Learned
Ioana A. Coman, Darren Lilleker and Miloš Gregor
Biography
Ioana A. Coman is Associate Professor at Texas Tech University, USA. She is a passionate educator and a researcher focused on how publics understand, react to, and interact with other important actors during large-scale health risk, crisis, and other hot-button issues or contexts. Her courses focus on different aspects of risk/crisis communication, public relations, journalism, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
Miloš Gregor is Assistant Professor at Masaryk University, the Czech Republic. He teaches courses on political communication and marketing, propaganda, disinformation, and fake news. Together with Petra Mlejnková, he is a mentor of projects Choose Your Info (Zvol si info) and Fakescape, both dedicated to media literacy awareness. Both projects received awards in the international Peer to Peer: Global Digital Challenge competition.
Darren Lilleker is Professor of Political Communication in the Faculty of Media and Communication and Deputy Head of the Humanities and Law Department at Bournemouth University, UK. He is Convenor of the Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research and teaches across the politics programs. He has led a range of research projects using qualitative and quantitative methods, delivered lectures, and conducted workshops to students across the world.
