Public sphere resilience in the global health crisis
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https://doi.org/10.24137/raeic.10.19.1Keywords:
COVID-19, public sphere, social sub-spheres, crisis, citizen resilienceAbstract
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the "normal" modes of functioning of the public sphere and activated an experimental mode of coping that has reinvented forms of public and communicative exchanges. In this article, we conceptualize the social responses triggered by the crisis as particular forms of public sphere resilience, and assess the role of digitization and digital spaces in the emergence of different modes and dynamics of resilience. In our conception, we examine three areas of public sphere experimentation: political consumption, political protest mobilization and news consumption. We discuss the general characteristics of public sphere resilience across social sub-spheres and highlight the dynamics and hybridisations that structure emerging public spaces. Resilience practices are accompanied by dynamics of politicisation and depoliticization, as well as shifts in the boundaries of the public and the private. Our observations also reveal the dynamic interplay between resilience and resistance.
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Della Porta, D. (2022). Contentious Politics in Emergency Critical Junctures: Progressive Social Movements during the Pandemic. Cambridge University Press
Friedman, M. (1999). Consumer Boycotts Effecting Change through the Marketplace and the Media. Routledge.
Frischlich, L., Schatto-Eckrodt, T., Kuhfeldt, L., y Clever, L. (2020). Fueling the Infodemic? Consuming Alternative and Non-Professional News During the Corona Crisis. DemoRESILdigital Whitepaper 1. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6UP8Y
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Engin, I. y Ruppert, E. (2015). Being Digital Citizens. Rowman & Littlefield International.
Kalogeropoulos, A., Fletcher, R. y Nielsen, R. K. (2020). Initial Surge in News Use around Coronavirus in the UK Has Been Followed by Significant Increase in News Avoidance. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Recuperado de https://cutt.ly/736rJrA
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Micheletti, M., Follesdal, A., y Stolle, D. (2003). Politics, Products, and Markets. Exploring Political Consumerism Past and Present. Transaction Publisher.
Neidhardt, F. (1994). “Öffentlichkeit, öffentliche Meinung, soziale Bewegungen.” En F. Neidhart (Ed.) Öffentlichkeit, öffentliche Meinung, soziale Bewegungen. Sonderheft 34 der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (pp. 7–41). Westdt. Verl.
Nielsen, R. K., Fletcher, R., Newman, N., Brennen, J. S., y Howard, P. N. (2020). Navigating the ‘Infodemic’: How People in Six Countries Access and Rate News and Information about Coronavirus. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the University of Oxford. https://cutt.ly/B36tWCk
Pleyers, G. (2020). The Pandemic is a battlefield. Social movements in the COVID-19 lockdown. Journal of Civil Society, 16(4), 295–312. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2020.1794398
Shahsavari, S., Holur, P., Tangherlini, T. R., y Roychowdhury, V. (2020). Conspiracy in the Time of Corona: Automatic Detection of Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories in Social Media and the News. Journal of Computational Social Science, 3, 279–317. http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13783
Stolle, D., y Micheletti, M. (2013). Political Consumerism: Global Responsibility in Action. Cambridge University Press.
Till, K. E. (2005). The New Berlin - Memory, Politics, Place. University of Minnesota Press.
Viehmann, C., Ziegele, M., y Quiring, O. (2020). Informationsnutzung in Der Corona-Krise. Report Zu Ersten Befunden Aus Zwei Erhebungswellen. Johannes Guttemberg Universität Mainz. Recuperado de https://cutt.ly/736yRZp
Wildavsky, A. B. (1988). Searching for Safety. Transaction Books.
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2023-02-28
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Public sphere resilience in the global health crisis. (2023). Revista De La Asociación Española De Investigación De La Comunicación, 10(19), 2-21. https://doi.org/10.24137/raeic.10.19.1
