{"id":11529,"date":"2023-02-21T12:32:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T11:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordmedianetwork.org\/?post_type=news&p=11529"},"modified":"2023-02-21T12:32:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T11:32:46","slug":"communication-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-nordic-countries","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nordmedianetwork.org\/de\/latest\/news\/communication-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-nordic-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Nordic Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How was the Covid-19 pandemic communicated in the Nordic countries? A new book, Communicating a Pandemic: Crisis Management and Covid-19 in the Nordic Countries<\/em>, provides some answers to this question. We have asked a few of the authors of the book why their study is important and who can benefit from reading it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With a group of editors representing four Nordic countries, Bengt Johansson<\/a><\/strong> (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), \u00d8yvind Ihlen<\/a><\/strong> (University of Oslo, Norway), Jenny Lindholm<\/strong> (\u00c5bo Akademi University, Finland), and Mark Blach-\u00d8rsten<\/a><\/strong> (Roskilde University, Denmark), the new book published by Nordicom, Communicating a Pandemic: Crisis Management and Covid-19 in the Nordic Countries<\/a><\/em>, examines crisis communication in the Nordic countries during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By encompassing crisis responses from governments, public health authorities, lobbyists, corporations, news media, and citizens, the chapters reveal some similarities in political and governmental responses that highlighted solidarity and the need for exceptional measures, as well as in media coverage, which was mainly informative and relying on experts, rather than being critical. Surveys and interviews reveal how important news media was for citizens to cope with the crisis, but also that citizens mostly trusted both politicians and health authorities during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Below, we highlight a few of the chapters, with some contributors sharing why their study is important and who can benefit from reading it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chapter 4 \u2013 \u201cStrategic Covid-19 management in communicational practice:<\/strong> At the crossroads to remain open or not in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In this chapter, Joel Rasmussen<\/strong> (\u00d6rebro University), \u00d8yvind Ihlen (University of Oslo), and Jens E. Kjeldsen<\/strong><\/a> (University of Bergen) examine strategy as shaped and made visible through government communication. In a comparison of the Scandinavian countries and the choice of whether to lock down during a critical period of the pandemic, March\u2013April 2020, the chapter shows that it is significant that the countries’ administrations made different assessments of several things: 1) evidence-based requirements when the risk is uncertain; 2) economic effects of containment measures; 3) secondary effects on public health; 4) the dangerousness of the spread of the virus; and finally, 5) alignment with different national risk management histories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below, Joel Rasmussen shares why this chapter is important and who should read it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why is this study important?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n