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Covid-19 represents a systemic event?a state of emergency?that disrupts the routines of societies from the level of individuals to institutions, nations, and global interaction. Revealing the vulnerability of the intensively interconnected world suggests a juxtaposition with another systemic crisis: the climate emergency. Drawing on some key literature on the different aspects of ?events??as heightened political semiosis (Wagner-Pacifi), as (possible) transformation of social and symbolic structures (Sewell), and as moments where new horizons are opened (Arendt)?this essay suggests three intersecting themes where reactions to Covid-19 help to sharpen the crucial questions of future journalism: the role of ?knowledge? and expertise, the power of national framing, and the challenge of covering the new imperatives and possibilities of everyday life. ; Peer reviewed

Covid-19 represents a systemic event—a state of emergency—that disrupts the routines of societies from the level of individuals to institutions, nations, and global interaction. Revealing the vulnerability of the intensively interconnected world suggests a juxtaposition with another systemic crisis: the climate emergency. Drawing on some key literature on the different aspects of "events"—as heightened political semiosis (Wagner-Pacifi), as (possible) transformation of social and symbolic structures (Sewell), and as moments where new horizons are opened (Arendt)—this essay suggests three intersecting themes where reactions to Covid-19 help to sharpen the crucial questions of future journalism: the role of "knowledge" and expertise, the power of national framing, and the challenge of covering the new imperatives and possibilities of everyday life.

I take as my starting point John Dewey's often quoted notion that society exists not only ` by communication' but also ` in transmission, in communication' (Dewey, 1916: 5). From this James Carey (1975) created a definition of communication as a form of society, `a process whereby reality is created, shared, modified and preserved'. Here we have a definition of communication that articulates and combines the historical experiences of rapidly developing western societies and their expansive means of communication. Journalism has for a long time enjoyed a special status in this continuous `recreation' of society. This article attempts to build a model to analyse the manner in which contemporary journalism `creates' society, how it `modifies' our perspective of the world in a manner that enables us to `share' some crucial meanings about reality. The model is based on the analysis of different sorts of narrative voices. It aims to capture some of the order of the contemporary discourse of journalism and to discuss both the synchronic and diachronic features of journalism.1

Von John Dewey stammt der bekannte Satz, daß Gesellschaft nicht nur "durch Kommunikation" sondern auch "in Transmission, in Kommunikation" entsteht. Daraus hat James Carey (1975) eine Definition von Kommunikation als einer Form von Gesellschaft abgeleitet, "einen Prozeß durch den Realität geschaffen, geteilt, verändert und erhalten" wird. Diese Definition formuliert und kombiniert die historischen Erfahrungen rasch wachsender westlicher Gesellschaften und ihrer expandierenden Kommunikationsmittel. Der Journalismus hat eine lange Zeit einen speziellen Status in diesem fortlaufenden Prozeß der "Erschaffung" von Gesellschaft genossen. Der Beitrag versucht ein Modell zu entwickeln, mit dessen Hilfe die Art und Weise untersucht werden kann, wie der zeitgenössische Journalismus Gesellschaft "schafft", wie er unsere Weltsicht auf eine Art "verändert", die es uns ermöglicht einige Grunderkenntnisse über die Realität zu "teilen". Das Modell basiert auf einer Analyse unterschiedlicher Erzählstrukturen. Es zielt darauf ab, einige Ordnungsmerkmale zeitgenössischer journalistischer Erzählstrukturen zu erfassen und sowohl die synchronischen als auch die diachronischen Charakteristika von Journalismus zu erörtern. (UNübers.)

This book [Mediatized power and the return of the political] describes Finnish decision-makers' relationship with the media. It is based on surveys in 2009 and 2019. In 2009 there were 419 and in 2019 484 respondents, all of them having an influential position in some of the eight societal sectors covered in the study. The results show a moderate change from a consensus-oriented and networking decision-making culture towards a more ideologic and power-based way of negotiating. However, it seems that this has not affected how open or transparent the negotiation-processes are or how prone the decision-makers are to leak confidential information. The decision-makers' relationship with media publicity has become more professional and strategic. The results point to an increased role of social media in communications management while the role of the news media seems to be diminishing. Even though the decision-makers view publicity as an even more risky and strategic arena of political struggle than they did before, they also seem now acknowledge more clearly the rational aspects of journalism. The self-reported role of media publicity as a source of personal authority has somewhat diminished while there seems to be no change in how prone the decision-makers think they are for the impacts of media publicity.

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In this introductory article, we discuss the rise of the "classical" theories of propaganda, starting with an historical exposé of the concept, which traces its roots and trajectory through the field of academic analysis. Propaganda is then discussed in relation to other adjacent concepts such as soft power, public diplomacy, nation branding, fake news, and so on. In a third section, the concept of propaganda is discussed in relation to the present datafied world, marked by various forms of crises – of democracy and of the environment, for example. In the last section, the articles included in this themed issue are presented and related to the preceding historical and conceptual discussion.

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Recent years have seen another peak in global media attention to climate change. Driven by increasingly dire news about extreme weather, growing demands of systemic adaption and a new wave political activism, the current situation has increasingly been framed as a climate crisis. This introductory essay maps these recent developments and elaborates the conceptual potentials and limitations of the "crisis" frame. It also briefly reviews the state of the art of media research and situates the contributions of the issue into this landscape.

Drawing from interviews with 31 young leading climate activists from 23 countries across the world this article aims to capture the contribution of the recent youth climate movement to communicating climate science and politics. We show that from the point of view of the youth activists, the movement powerfully connects personal and local experiences and emotions with climate science. This has enabled the activists to construct an authentic, generational and temporal identity that has helped them to carve out an autonomous position and voice with considerable moral authority among existing climate policy actors. Claiming to represent the future generation, we conclude that activists have offered an important added value to climate science as new ambassadors for scientific consensus and climate mitigation. The youth movement and the added value it brings communicating climate science is an example of the dynamics of the formation of "relational publics" and emphasizes the need to understand better the networked communication landscape where climate politics is debated.

Drawing from interviews with 31 young leading climate activists from 23 countries across the world this article aims to capture the contribution of the recent youth climate movement to communicating climate science and politics. We show that from the point of view of the youth activists, the movement powerfully connects personal and local experiences and emotions with climate science. This has enabled the activists to construct an authentic, generational and temporal identity that has helped them to carve out an autonomous position and voice with considerable moral authority among existing climate policy actors. Claiming to represent the future generation, we conclude that activists have offered an important added value to climate science as new ambassadors for scientific consensus and climate mitigation. The youth movement and the added value it brings communicating climate science is an example of the dynamics of the formation of "relational publics" and emphasizes the need to understand better the networked communication landscape where climate politics is debated. ; Peer reviewed