Political Communication in the Time of Coronavirus

COVID-19 as an ideal case for a rally-around-the-flag? How government communication, media coverage and a polarized public sphere determines leadership approvals in times of crisis / Peter Van Aelst -- From consensus to dissensus : the UK's management of a pandemic in a divided nation / Ruth Garland and Darren Lilleker -- Beyond control and resistance. the dual narrative of the coronavirus outbreak in digital China / Yuan Zeng -- COVID-19 in Chile : a health crisis amidst a political crisis amidst a social crisis / Ingrid Bachmann, Sebastián Valenzuela, Arturo Figueroa-Bustos -- The Italian Prime Minister as a captain in the storm. The pandemic as an opportunity to build personalized political leadership. / Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Roberta Bracciale -- Interactive propaganda. How Fox News and Donald Trump co-produced false narratives about the Covid-19 crisis / Yunkang Yang, Lance Bennett -- Stooges of the system or holistic observers? A computational analysis of news media's Facebook posts on political actors during the coronavirus crisis in Germany / Thorsten Quandt, Svenja Boberg, Tim Schatto-Eckrodt, Lena Frischlich -- More than "a little flu" : alternative digital journalism and the struggle to reframe the Brazilian government's response to the COVID-19 outbreak / Stuart Davis -- When a polarized media system meets a pandemic : framing the political discord over COVID-19 aid campaigns in Turkey / Gizem Melek, Emre İşeri -- Divided we trust? The role of polarization on rally-around-the-flag effects during the COVID-19 crisis / Ana S. Cardenal, Laia Castro-Herrero, Christian Schemer, Jesper Strömbäck, Agnieszka Stępińska, Claes de Vreese, Peter Van Aelst -- The role of political polarization on American and Australian trust and media use during the COVID-19 pandemic / Andrea Carson, Shaun Ratcliff, Leah Ruppanner -- "I don't vote because I don't want to get infected." Pandemic, polarization and public trust during the 2020 presidential election in Poland / Sabina Mihelj, Damian Guzek, Václav Štětka -- The Swedish way : how ideology and media use influenced the formation, maintenance and change of beliefs about the coronavirus / Adam Shehata, Isabella Glogger & Kim Andersen.