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Subject(s)

• Communication in crisis management [Browse]
• COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023—Political aspects [Browse]
• COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023—Social aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Hohaus, Pascal [Browse]

Series

• Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; Volume 96. [More in this series]
• Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; Volume 96 [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume addresses demands on external and internal science communication in times of crisis. The contributions discuss present crises such as COVID-19 (e.g. vaccination campaigns or political reactions towards the pandemic in the context of science scepticism), and climate change (e.g. plausibility judgements or the role of scientists).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Intro
• Science Communication in Times of Crisis
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Chapter 1. Communicating science in crisis societies: Challenges across disciplines, contexts and nations
• The research context of this volume
• The structure of this volume
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Chapter 2. Which facts to trust in the debate on climate change?: On knowledge and plausibility in times of crisis
• Introduction: The state of facts in knowledge crises
• Questioning knowledge
• Questioning facts
• Asking a different question
• Plausibility as a pattern of thinking and reasoning
• Dissecting two knowledge crises
• The dispute between Galileo and Bellarmine
• Harald Lesch's "Clarifying misconceptions about climate change"
• James Inhofe's senate speech on climate change
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3. Letters to power: Authority appeals in the communication of scientific consensus
• Letters to power
• Scientist Statement on Restoring Scientific Integrity to Federal Policy Making, 2004
• Science and the Public Interest, 2016
• Power in letters?
• Chapter 4. Pivoting to support science communication in times of crisis: A case study of the Government of Canada's Glossary on the COVID-19 pandemic
• Introduction
• Science communication and crisis communication
• Terminology work
• De-terminologization
• Traditional terminology work
• Users of traditional terminology resources
• The Translation Bureau and the development of the Glossary on the COVID-19 pandemic
• The need for speed
• Transparency of terms
• A multifaceted perspective
• A broader notion of "termhood"
• Discussion and conclusion
• Chapter 5. COVID-19 neologisms between metaphor and culture: A multilingual corpus-based study
• Introduction.
• Coining neologisms in times of COVID-19
• Corpora
• English corpus
• Spanish corpus
• Arabic corpus
• Method
• Step 1: Identification of metaphor and cultural based neologisms
• Step 2: Analysis of the morphological and etymological origin of the neologism
• Results and analysis
• English terms
• Analysis of English terms
• Spanish terms
• Analysis of Spanish terms
• Arabic terms
• Analysis of Arabic terms
• Conclusions
• Funding
• Chapter 6. Persuasion in health communication: The case of Saudi and Australian tweets on COVID-19 vaccination
• Theoretical background
• Literature review
• Methodology
• Data collection
• Data coding
• Results
• Discussion
• Appendix A. Typology of persuasive strategies in technical discourse by Dontcheva-Navratilova, Adam, Povolná and Vogel (2020)
• Appendix B. Adaptation of the typology of persuasive strategies in technical discourse by Dontcheva-Navratilova, Adam, Povolná and Vogel (2020)
• Chapter 7. Communicating risks of an Anti-COVID-19 vaccine in Poland: A comparative case study of content, style and advocacy of three media outlets
• Risk and science communication in mainstream media
• Theoretical frame and empirical research on media panics
• Design of the study
• Gazeta wyborcza
• TVP info
• Onet.pl
• Appendix A. Gazeta Wyborcza (sample and results of news values coding)
• Appendix B. TVP Info (sample and results of news values coding)
• Appendix C. Onet.pl (sample and results of news values coding)
• Chapter 8. 'Coronavirus as a political weapon': The COVID pandemic through the lens of the us Alt-Right Media
• The Alt Right and Trump
• Coronavirus in the United States
• Methods and data
• Findings.
• Keywords
• Social actor representation
• The representation of the out-group actors
• The representation of the in-group actor
• Chapter 9. Science versus?: The U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• The crisis communication failures of the U.S. COVID-19 response
• Index.

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ISBN

9789027257475 ((electronic bk.))

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