Data di Pubblicazione:
2021
Citazione:
The impact of dramatized communications on public support for lockdown measures / M. Barisione. - (2021). ((Intervento presentato al convegno Pomlab Research Notes tenutosi a Milano nel 2021.
Abstract:
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic will long remain an extraordinary case for the social
sciences, as it provides quasi-ideal conditions for the analysis of socio-political mechanisms
in contexts of extreme crisis and disruption of the social order. It is in fact in these exceptional
circumstances characterized by uncertainty, fear and the loss of traditional references that the
impact of communications is potentially highest; but these contexts also enhance the possibility
that reality directly experienced by citizens in their everyday life imposes itself regardless of
communication efforts. Through a survey experiment conducted in 5 European counties at the
end of the first lockdowns, we find that the governments’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic
tended to be more accepted by voters of the parties in office, especially in the presence of a
dramatized frame emphasizing possible human losses, both in terms of jobs and lives. In the
context of a harsh health and economic reality, however, the impact of communication proved
to be limited.
Tipologia IRIS:
23 - Pubblicazione su portale
Elenco autori:
M. Barisione
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