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Chapter 6. Expressions of governance, risk, and responsibility: Public campaigns in the crisis and risk management of Covid-19 in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
Department of Communication and Art, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.ORCID iD: 00000-0002-5940-6940
Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.
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2023 (English)In: Communicating a pandemic: Crisis management and Covid-19 in the Nordic countries / [ed] B. Johansson, Ø. Ihlen, J. Lindholm, & M. Blach-Ørsten, Nordicom, University of Gothenburg , 2023, p. 121-147Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

During the Covid-19 pandemic, public campaigns were an important part of the Scandinavian health authorities’ strategies to combat the spread of the virus. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden had different strategies to manage the crisis: Denmark had the most political crisis management, Sweden the most informational, and Norway was placed somewhere in between. This chapter examines how public risk and crisis communication during a pandemic was handled in these campaigns in the Scandinavian countries, how they function as a governance technology, and how this was carried out rhetorically. We show how indirect, governmental steering dominated the campaign rhetoric in Scandinavia, through a focus on the culturally decided aspects of purity and danger, and through appeal to a sense of personal responsibility and willingness to avoid taking risks among the citizenry. Furthermore, we find that the campaigns are representative for the crisis management strategy in each country.

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Nordicom, University of Gothenburg , 2023. p. 121-147
Keywords [en]
public campaigns, governmentality, risk management, Covid-19, rhetoric of solidarity
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Media and Communication Studies Media and Communication Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-12704DOI: 10.48335/9789188855688-6OAI: oai:DiVA.org:norden-12704DiVA, id: diva2:1722290
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