Pandemic Communication in Times of Populism: Building Resilient Media and Ensuring Effective Pandemic Communication in Divided Societies

民粹主义时代的流行病传播：在分裂的社会中建立有弹性的媒体并确保有效的流行病传播

• 批准号: ES/X000702/1
• 负责人: Sabina Mihelj
• 金额: $ 31.98万
• 依托单位: Loughborough University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX000702%2F1
• 关键词: Pandemic; Communication; Times; Populism; Building

Media serve as important sources of information about health, and their role increases during public health crises. The way media select and present information during a crisis can have a significant impact on public attitudes and behaviour; it can encourage social cohesion and compliance with public health measures, or alternatively saw division and distrust. The presence of populist leaders obstructs the capacity of media organisations to engage in effective health crisis communication. It fosters anti-elite sentiments, contributes to divisive media coverage, and thereby encourages polarized attitudes and distrust among citizens, making them more vulnerable to misinformation spreading through socio-digital networks. Given the growing appeal of populism globally, activities aimed at making our societies more resilient in the face of future pandemics urgently need a better understanding of how populism affects health crisis communication. This project will develop the first comprehensive, comparative study of health crisis communication in the context of populist politics, bringing significant advances in knowledge at the intersection of political communication and public health. Research will examine the impact of populism on four aspects of the pandemic communication circuit during COVID-19: government-led health crisis communication, media policy, media coverage, and public attitudes. The fifth strand will take a transnational perspective and analyse how the interaction between populism and pandemic communication was shaped by China and Russia's pandemic geopolitics. The focus will be on four countries that were led by populist leaders during the pandemic, and which capture different types of populist responses to the pandemic: Brazil, Poland, Serbia, and the USA.This research will inform recommendations aimed at building more resilient media organisations that are better equipped to withstand the challenges of future pandemics in divided societies. The recommendations will be developed and disseminated in collaboration with key organisations representing media regulators, communication professionals, and public service media.

媒体是卫生信息的重要来源，在公共卫生危机期间，媒体的作用会增加。媒体在危机期间选择和提供信息的方式可以对公众的态度和行为产生重大影响;它可以鼓励社会凝聚力和遵守公共卫生措施，或者看到分裂和不信任。民粹主义领导人的存在阻碍了媒体组织参与有效的卫生危机传播的能力。它助长反精英情绪，助长分裂性媒体报道，从而鼓励公民之间的两极化态度和不信任，使他们更容易受到通过社会数字网络传播的错误信息的影响。鉴于民粹主义在全球的吸引力越来越大，旨在使我们的社会在面对未来流行病时更具弹性的活动迫切需要更好地了解民粹主义如何影响卫生危机传播。该项目将在民粹主义政治的背景下开发第一个全面的健康危机传播比较研究，在政治传播和公共卫生的交叉点带来知识的重大进步。研究将考察民粹主义对COVID-19期间流行病传播回路的四个方面的影响：政府主导的健康危机传播、媒体政策、媒体报道和公众态度。第五部分将采取跨国视角，分析中国和俄罗斯的流行病地缘政治如何塑造民粹主义和流行病传播之间的互动。研究重点将放在四个在疫情期间由民粹主义领导人领导的国家，这些国家对疫情采取了不同类型的民粹主义应对措施：巴西、波兰、塞尔维亚和美国。这些建议将与代表媒体监管机构、传播专业人员和公共服务媒体的主要组织合作制定和传播。

项目成果

Challenges of journalism research on populism and credibility

民粹主义和可信度新闻研究的挑战

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Rothberg, D.

Pandemic communication in Poland: A media policy perspective

波兰的流行病传播：媒体政策视角

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Klimkiewicz, B.