TY - GEN
T1 - Governmental Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography
AU - Schnaider, Karoline
AU - Schiavetto, Stefano
AU - Meier, Florian Maximilian
AU - Wasson, Barbara
AU - Brink Allsopp, Benjamin
AU - Spikol , Daniel
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The Scandinavian countries are often seen as a unity. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic striking differences on how the countries approached the crisis became evident. This quantitative-ethnographic (QE) study aimed to understand political and cultural similarities and differences between the three Scandinavian countries -Denmark, Norway and Sweden - through their crisis communications during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we focused on how the health authorities of the three countries, in their press releases, treated information about COVID-19 and acted in four fields: reorganization of population behavior, containment of viral transmission, preparation of health systems, and management of socioeconomic impacts. As a methodology, the QE tools nCoder and ENA were applied, respectively: to code the press releases and to correlate the treatment of information with the four fields of action.
AB - The Scandinavian countries are often seen as a unity. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic striking differences on how the countries approached the crisis became evident. This quantitative-ethnographic (QE) study aimed to understand political and cultural similarities and differences between the three Scandinavian countries -Denmark, Norway and Sweden - through their crisis communications during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we focused on how the health authorities of the three countries, in their press releases, treated information about COVID-19 and acted in four fields: reorganization of population behavior, containment of viral transmission, preparation of health systems, and management of socioeconomic impacts. As a methodology, the QE tools nCoder and ENA were applied, respectively: to code the press releases and to correlate the treatment of information with the four fields of action.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Pandemic
KW - Crisis communication
KW - Quantitative ethnography
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-67788-6_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-67788-6_28
M3 - Article in proceeding
SN - 978-3-030-67787-9
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 406
EP - 421
BT - Advances in Quantitative Ethnography
PB - Springer
Y2 - 24 October 2020 through 27 October 2020
ER -