The literature comparing journalistic roles around the world highlights different ways of understanding work across countries. One main differences in conceptualising concerns journalist's propensity for intervention: where some contexts it is common practice journalists to intervene with commentary and interpretation; while others there a tendency adopt more neutral reporting style. Through conceptual lens role performance, this study investigates performance interventionist within its two...

Emergency situations like the COVID-19 pandemic are key drivers of strategic communication. Governments must implement communication strategies for ensuring well-being citizens, to enforce social control policies responding a health emergency. Choosing Italy as case study, this analysis focuses on press coverage government’s such policies, during two different waves in 2020, evaluating if supported or hindered it. Using combination quantitative and qualitative analysis, we identified which...

Abstract The study investigates the online debate sparked by political instrumentalization of religious symbols right-wing populist leaders, taking as a case campaign communication Matteo Salvini—leader Italian “Lega” party—in run-up to 2018 and 2019 general European elections. Against backdrop theories on populism, publicization politicization in social media context, research analyzes over 2,000 Facebook posts referring Salvini religion using mixed computational qualitative method...

This study analyzes news media's role in governmental decision-making processes related to a gradually intensifying series of earthquakes resulting from gas drilling the Netherlands, and catastrophic natural Italy. According risk governance actors interviewed both cases, media play three roles, as: democratic fora, agenda setters, strategic instruments. Media attention for can create ripple effects processes. However, tends be risk-event driven focuses on direct newsworthy consequences...

Recent years have seen a growing interest in the role of media relation to corruption. This interest, however, has particularly concerned legacy media, leaving played by social corruption largely unexplored. study attempts understand how contributes public representation through an analysis actors who discuss it and topics they introduce into debate. Despite media’s ability diversify both able intervene debate sub-topics being discussed, some aspects it, such as affordances platforms that...

While legacy media have received increasing attention in the literature on and corruption recent years, role of digital and, particular, social is still an open question anti-corruption studies Through this study, we aim to partially bridge existing gap by focusing our study a scandal, namely Qatargate scandal. We will demonstrate that affordances platforms could exacerbate instrumentalization scandals, emphasizing contrast positions creating new (and reiterating old) biases narrative case.

Scholars have for some years hypothesized a “new visibility” of religion, so that relevant role in the publicization religion is played by media. However, while public visibility media has recently become topic great interest at international level, Italy, literature on this quite scarce. It particular Italy due to central Catholic Church, which, despite changed socio-political context and transformations system, does not seem lost its capacity intervene publicly. Therefore, study intends...

Purpose The study compares the social services functioning in two local contexts, one urban and rural, same Italian region, to understand how contextual features affect frontline workers' work. Design/methodology/approach By applying framework of street-level bureaucracy theory (SLB) proposing a framing spatial contexts under analysis, present adopts qualitative approach. In particular, semi-structured interviews were conducted among workers, decision-makers privileged witnesses. Findings...

How did the Italian national press cover earthquakes that struck severely centre of Italy in 2016? it tragedy people and territories hit by earthquakes? What were main practices put place journalists? An earthquake is a terrifying, unexpected destructive event, characteristics make highly newsworthy: perfect kind news for its widely popular appeal. Journalists have difficult task narrating such tragic which requires dedicated “dramatic” frame as they must tell stories death, pain destruction...