Chapter 13 The Swedish way : How Ideology and Media Use Influenced the Formation, Maintenance and Change of Beliefs about the Coronavirus

• Tác giả: Kim Andersen, Isabella Glogger, Adam Shehata
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0367761851
• ISBN-13: 978-0367771577
• ISBN: 978100317005116
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 320.014 Language and communication
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor & Francis, 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (16 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 225594
• Chủ đề: 1. Media studies; 2. Political structure & processes; 3. Press & journalism

Tóm tắt

 This chapter examines public belief formation in Sweden during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on theories of sociotropic belief formation, we analyze how citizens' ideology, personal experience, interpersonal talk and media use influence their beliefs about how the coronavirus affects the Swedish society. The findings from analyses of three waves of panel survey data suggest that (1) citizens continuously update their corona beliefs over time
  that (2) ideological belief gaps emerge in the initial phase of the crisis but remain relatively constant over time
  that (3) corona beliefs primarily depend on ideology and news media use
  and that (4) these two factors also influence the likelihood that citizens hold-on to beliefs formed at an early stage of the pandemic. Furthermore, while news media use was more clearly related to perceptions about the magnitude of the coronavirus as a societal problem, ideology played a larger role for perceptions about how Sweden had managed the virus.