Manufacturing Government Communication on Covid-19 (eBook)

This book presents a comparative perspective on different government communication strategies to COVID-19 around the globe. Scholars from twenty parts of the world specialized in political and government communication analyze initiatives and methods of various governments' communicative responses to the pandemic. In their contributions to this volume, they examine a wide range of distinct attitudes and reactions facing the crisis.

Today's omnidirectional contact allowed by social media, with its load of contradictory rumors and fake news, often obliterates the citizens' ability to comprehend reality. The book frames a broad canvas on how government communication may deal with that and manage similar crises - bound to happen as climate changes and war menaces are generating more and more worries about the future of humanity.

This makes this volume a must-read for scholars and students of political communication, health policies and communication, crisis marketing and communication. It will also be of utmost interest for practitioners and policy-makers from these fields willing to better understand government communication and its answer to global crises.

Philippe J. Maarek, is a professor of political communication at the Paris Est Créteil University (UPEC), France, a former president of the Political Communication Research Sections of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and a former member of the Institute of Communication Science of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Currently of  a member of the Sic.Lab Méditerranée (Nice, France), Philippe J. Maarek is the founder and director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Political and Public Communication (CECCOPOP) and is the co-founder and former director of the Public and Political Communication Department at the University of Paris-East, France. He has been awarded the prestigious French order 'Legion d'Honneur'.