Positive communication in a catastrophic crisis
The mixed effects of Covid-19 on the tone of Canadian governments’ media coverage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12878004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexis Bibeau (0000-0002-1277-2310, University of Virginia, corresponding author), Adrien Cloutier (0000-0002-9357-3689, Université Laval), Alexandre Fortier-Chouinard (0000-0002-6282-9709, University of Toronto), Nadjim Fréchet (0000-0001-7118-1409, Université de Montréal), Camille Tremblay-Antoine (0000-0001-6964-1373, Université Laval), Yannick Dufresne (0000-0002-6211-2193, Université Laval) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-79 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-8296 • E-ISSN: 2040-0918 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/macp_00039_7 |
| OpenAlex | W3174024646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
Crisis management strategies have taken a new significance amidst the COVID-19 crisis. In \nCanada, while the tone of media coverage of political leaders is usually stable over time, the \npandemic has provoked variation that provides an opportunity to test the effect of leaders’ crisis \nmanagement strategies on the tone of media coverage. Using a unique dataset of online front-page \narticles from 11 Canadian media outlets, an automated textual analysis, and a regression \ndiscontinuity design, this paper estimates how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and \nQuebec Premier François Legault’s COVID-19 early crisis management affected the media \ncoverage devoted to them. Results show that Legault’s crisis management had a short-term \npositive effect on his media coverage, while Trudeau’s effect is null. These findings raise questions \nabout the link between media, decision-makers and public opinion
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Advertising · Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Crisis communication · Linguistics · Media coverage · Media studies · Political science · Public relations · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Sociology · Tone (literature · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Medicine · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining · Internal Medicine · Virology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |