Whose crisis? Pandemic flu, 'communication disasters' and the struggle for hegemony
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4884548 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Hall (0000-0002-4541-9310, Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author), Meike Wolf (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 322-338 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363459319886112 |
| PMID | 31746222 |
| OpenAlex | W2990636869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 8 |
Public health authorities in Germany regard communication as a crucial part of infectious disease prevention and control strategies. Communication becomes even more important during public health crises such as pandemics. Drawing on Briggs and Hallin's concept of biocommunicability, we analysed the German National Pandemic Plan and key informant interviews with public health experts, critical infrastructure providers and ambulance services. We examined the projected expectations towards the behaviour of the audiences and the projected ways of information circulation informing public health communication strategies during a pandemic. Participants shared the expectation that the population would react towards an influenza pandemic with panic and fear due to a lack of information or a sensationalist media coverage. They associated the information uptake of their target audience with trust in their expertise. While our informants from public health conceptualised trust in terms of a face-to-face interaction, they sought to gain trust through transparency in their respective institutional settings. Our analysis suggests that this moved health information into a political register where their medical authority was open to debate. In response to this, they perceived the field of communication as a struggle for hegemony
Crisis communication · Disease · Environmental health · Health communication · Hegemony · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Population · Public health · Public relations · Sensationalism · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |