Summary information
Study title
Global risk and uncertainty. Documentary analysis of the COVID-19 state of emergency (2020-2022)
Creator
Bergamo, Sonia (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
Study number / PID
SN246 (UniData)
10.20366/unimib/unidata/SN246-1.0 (DOI)
Data access
Open
Series
Not available
Abstract
During the pandemic emergency, several communicative artifacts have been produced. These language practices adhered to the crisis risk communication strategies. Within the COVID-19 pandemic to date, the discourse analysis is limited to media or leaders language with little analysis of institutional crisis communication. This contribution aims at filling this gap by presenting a documentary analysis of the Italian case. Data includes 648 official documents produced between the declaration of the state of emergency (January 31, 2020) and its cessation (March 31, 2022). Results shed light on the technocratic approach the Italian crisis discourse laid on, in which the nature of risk was objective and knowable.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
15/11/2021 - 28/07/2022
Country
Italy
Time dimension
cross-section
Analysis unit
text unit
Universe
All documents (laws, decree-laws, decrees, circulars, ordinances, reports/verbals, etc.) issued during the state of emergency in Italy (31 January 2020 - 31 March 2022) by the following institutions: President of the Council, Ministry of Health, Head of the Civil Protection Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità and the Technical Scientific Committee.
Sampling procedure
648 documents. Non-probabilistic purposive sample. The documents were selected from those freely accessible on the official websites of the institutions considered, filtering on the keyword 'COVID-19'. Among the results obtained, documents concerning restrictive decisions on fundamental rights and civil liberties (e.g. freedom of movement), enforced everyday freedoms (e.g. wearing masks, case tracking, quarantines, physical distancing, Green Pass), as well as closures (e.g. school closures, business closures and bans on public events) were selected.
Kind of data
individual data
Data collection mode
other
Access
Publisher
UniData - Bicocca Data Archive
Publication year
2024
Terms of data access
Data are released in according to Creative Commons – Attribution 4.0 Licence, available here.
Related publications
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