Chapter 10. Watchdogs and government megaphones: The dual democratic roles of the news media during the Covid-19 pandemic in Iceland and Sweden

Författare, redaktör eller annan roll
Marina Ghersetti
Jón Gunnar Ólafsson
Sigrún Ólafsdóttir
Organisation som författare, redaktör eller annan roll
Nordisk Informationscenter for Medie- og Kommunikationsforskning (NORDICOM), Nordiska ministerrådet
Publikationstyp
Kapitel i samlingsverk
Språk
Engelska
Utgivningsdatum
Typ av innehåll
Sakkunniggranskat
Abstract (Engelska)

The Covid-19 pandemic highlights two democratic roles of the news media during a crisis: to provide important information and to be a critical voice of decisions made by those in power. In this chapter, we examine how the media in Iceland and Sweden conveyed authorities’ messages and to what extent ...

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Titel
Communicating a pandemic: Crisis management and Covid-19 in the Nordic countries
Redaktör
B. Johansson, Ø. Ihlen, J. Lindholm, & M. Blach-Ørsten
DOI
10.48335/9789188855688-10
Startsida
217
Slutsida
240