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This book examines the challenges of communicating risk and crisis
messages during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide recommendations
for managing future global health crises. Given that outbreaks,
epidemics, and pandemics are global crises that require global
solutions, the book suggests that the world community needs to
build resilient crisis management institutions and message
management systems. Through international case studies, in-depth
interviews, textual, content, narrative and document analysis, the
book provides comprehensive accounts of how normative risk
communication strategies were invoked, applied, disrupted,
questioned, and changed during the COVID- 19 pandemic. It explores
themes including crisis preparedness, outbreak communication,
lockdown messages, communication uncertainty, risk message
strategies and the challenges of information disorders to show that
trust in supranational and national institutions is crucial for the
effective management of future global public health crises. A
thorough assessment of the multiple challenges faced by public
health authorities and audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, this
book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and
students in the field of Risk, Crisis and Health Communication and
Public Health and Disaster Management.
This topical volume illuminates ethical issues brought to the fore
by the COVID-19 pandemic Drawing on a broad range of case studies
from different regions, it provides insights into the multiple and
complex ways in which the pandemic has shaped media ethics Chapters
employ a wide range of innovative theoretical and methodological
approaches to dissect enduring and emerging ethical questions
during the pandemic While the case studies in this book are unique,
the authors have extrapolated common strands from their analysis of
ethical issues applicable to any other country or region during the
pandemic, contributing unique perspectives on how media ethics are
circumscribed by global health pandemics The book will appeal to
researchers, academics, and practitioners at all levels in the
fields of media studies, journalism, communication, media
sociology, and public health, as well as general readers and policy
makers who are keen to learn more about how global health crises
illuminate critical ethical issues confronting the media
This book brings together fresh evidence and new theoretical
frameworks in a unique analysis of the increasing role of social
media in political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa.
Supported by contemporary and historical cases studies, it engages
with the main drives behind the various appropriations of social
media for election campaigns, organization, and voter mobilization.
Contributors in this volume delve into changing and complex aspects
of social media, offering an appraisal of theoretical perspectives
and examining fascinating case studies which social media use is
redefining elections across Africa. Contributions show that new
media ecologies are resulting in new policy regimes, user
behaviors, and communication models that have implications for
electoral processes. The book also provides preliminary analysis of
emerging forms of algorithm-driven campaigns, fake news,
information distortions and other methods that undermine electoral
democracy in Africa.
This book, the second of two volumes, explores the challenges and
opportunities presented by the increased presence of social media
within African politics. Electoral processes in Africa have assumed
new dimensions due to the influence of social media. As social
media permeates different aspects of elections, it is ostensibly
creating new challenges and opportunities. Most evident are the
challenges of hate speech, misogyny and incivility. This book
considers the impact of digital media before, during, and after
elections, as well as authorities' attempts to legislate and
regulate the internet in response. Contributions to this volume
analyse social media posts, transgressive images, newspaper
articles, and include case studies of Algeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya,
South Africa, Nigeria and Uganda. This results in the delivery of
an original depiction of the use of social media in a variety of
African contexts. This book will appeal to academics and students
of media and communication studies, political studies, journalism,
sociology, and African studies.
This book, the second of two volumes, explores the challenges and
opportunities presented by the increased presence of social media
within African politics. Electoral processes in Africa have assumed
new dimensions due to the influence of social media. As social
media permeates different aspects of elections, it is ostensibly
creating new challenges and opportunities. Most evident are the
challenges of hate speech, misogyny and incivility. This book
considers the impact of digital media before, during, and after
elections, as well as authorities' attempts to legislate and
regulate the internet in response. Contributions to this volume
analyse social media posts, transgressive images, newspaper
articles, and include case studies of Algeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya,
South Africa, Nigeria and Uganda. This results in the delivery of
an original depiction of the use of social media in a variety of
African contexts. This book will appeal to academics and students
of media and communication studies, political studies, journalism,
sociology, and African studies.
This book brings together fresh evidence and new theoretical
frameworks in a unique analysis of the increasing role of social
media in political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa.
Supported by contemporary and historical cases studies, it engages
with the main drives behind the various appropriations of social
media for election campaigns, organization, and voter mobilization.
Contributors in this volume delve into changing and complex aspects
of social media, offering an appraisal of theoretical perspectives
and examining fascinating case studies which social media use is
redefining elections across Africa. Contributions show that new
media ecologies are resulting in new policy regimes, user
behaviors, and communication models that have implications for
electoral processes. The book also provides preliminary analysis of
emerging forms of algorithm-driven campaigns, fake news,
information distortions and other methods that undermine electoral
democracy in Africa.
This timely book explores crises as an inevitable part of modern
society, which causes ramifications not only for organisations, but
also for a diverse range of stakeholders. Addressing the need for
organisations to be guided by a stakeholder-oriented approach
throughout all phases of the crisis communication process, the
author draws upon various business disciplines and covers the
management of issues, risk, reputation and relationships. Covering
all stages of crisis communication, from pre-crisis to post-crisis,
stakeholder engagement is analysed through a series of case
studies, with a particular focus on the role of social media.
Scholars of corporate communications and business strategy will
find this new book undoubtedly useful, and it will be of particular
interest to those involved in crisis communication and management.
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