Pandemic Communication and Participation

Donatella della Porta, Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Riccardo Emilio Chesta, Assistant Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Polytechnic University of Milan, Daniela Chironi, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Political and Social Science, Scuola Normale Superiore, Stella Christou, Research Fellow in Political Sociology, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore and Andrea Felicetti, Senior Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padua, Italy

• Contents1 Introduction 2 Participating during the pandemic3 Navigating complexity4 Between politicization and mediatization5 Reconstructing the master frame of health rights during thepandemic emergency critical juncture 6 The political context seen from below and the idea ofcitizenship during the pandemic emergency 7 Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

‘Pandemic Communication and Participation powerfully demonstrates the capacity of social science to make sense of the Covid-19 health crisis and extract lessons for emergencies yet to come. From street protests to expressions of solidarity, from knowledge building to conspiracy-mongering, from empathy to anxiety, the authors capture the breadth and profundity of the pandemic experience.’