Narrativization and Naturalization of the Life with Covid-19 in the Czech Radio News
Narrativization and Naturalization of the Life with Covid-19 in the Czech Radio News

Summary/Abstract: To what extent was the SARS-COV-2 pandemic media-constructed? This paper presents findings from an analysis of the pandemic topic´s representation by the public service broadcaster Czech Radio. How changed the framing of the pandemic topic in the broadcast of the Czech Radio during 2020? News and journalism programs from the spring and autumn periods were analysed via triangulation of quantitative (content analysis) and qualitative methods (discourse and narrative analysis). The pandemic was covered intensively and its representation was a factual one based on expert statements in the spring. In the second half of the years, the pandemic topic was politicised and it became used as the contextual frame for representation of other events. While at the beginning the topic was represented through experts’ statements and medical discourse, in the second half of the year it changed to the domain of politicians and representatives of various interest groups. These were the manifestation of the process of the naturalisation of life with Covid-19 which took place in the Czech radio broadcast.

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