Overview
- Editors:
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Gevisa La Rocca
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Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Kore University of Enna, Enna, Italy
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Marie-Eve Carignan
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Department of Communication, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
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Giovanni Boccia Artieri
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Department of Communication Sciences, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
- Identifies how the information processes of institutions and citizens have changed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
- Outlines the new phenomenon of the infodemic disorder, which appeared during the first phase of the pandemic
- Analyzes the links between the communication strategies of public institutions and private citizens
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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- Marie-Eve Carignan, Gevisa La Rocca, Giovanni Boccia Artieri
Pages 1-14
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- Fabio Aiello, Giovanni Boscaino
Pages 31-64
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- Alessandro Lovari, Marinella Belluati
Pages 65-96
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- Gevisa La Rocca, Francesca Greco, Giovanni Boccia Artieri
Pages 97-131
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- Olivier Champagne-Poirier, Marie-Eve Carignan, Marc D. David, Tracey O’Sullivan, Guillaume Marcotte
Pages 133-160
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- Marie-Eve Carignan, Olivier Champagne-Poirier, Guilhem Aliaga
Pages 161-185
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- Olga Rodríguez-Cruz, Gabriela Rodríguez-Hernández
Pages 187-218
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- Gevisa La Rocca, Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Marie-Eve Carignan
Pages 253-265
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Back Matter
Pages 267-271
About this book
This contributed volume identifies how the information processes of public institutions and citizens have changed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, within a new context that emerged: the infodemic disorder. Public debate is largely characterized today by a crisis of the legitimacy of institutions, accompanied by a crisis of authority in public communication, leading to the emergency of a state of information disorder due specifically to the need to find information related to the coping of the pandemic. This condition is characterized by growing attention to issues related to ‘fake news’, ‘misinformation’, and ‘media manipulation’, that are intertwined in digital platform ecosystems, and the effects of which on democracy, public communication and research, and the sharing of information in the civic sphere are broad and far-reaching. This volume analyzes the links between communication strategies of public institutions, and the resulting citizen communication, in an attempt to tease out how communication processes have changed during the pandemic. It was decided to investigate this infodemic disorder as it appeared in three different geographical contexts: Europe, Canada and Mexico and, at the same time, to bring out the formal and informal coping strategies implemented by public institutions and citizens. Beginning with an introduction to the crisis of information created by the pandemic, the contributors build a theoretical framework, provide contagion data, and subsequently, for each of the geographical contexts analyzed, explore the public communication strategies and those activated by citizens seeking to share information.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Kore University of Enna, Enna, Italy
Gevisa La Rocca
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Department of Communication, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
Marie-Eve Carignan
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Department of Communication Sciences, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
Giovanni Boccia Artieri
About the editors
Gevisa La Rocca is Associate Professor in Sociology of Communication and Cultural Process at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Kore University of Enna, Italy.
Marie‐Eve Carignan is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication of the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada.
Giovanni Boccia Artieri is Full Professor in Sociology of Communication and Digital Media and Dean at the Dept. of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy.
