Science communication in times of crisis / edited by Pascal Hohaus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hohaus, Pascal, editor.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; Volume 96.

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; Volume 96

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in crisis management.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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).

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hohaus, Pascal Science Communication in Times of Crisis

ISBN:

9789027257475

OCLC:

1337072604