Table of contents
Chapter 1.Communicating science in crisis societies: Challenges across disciplines, contexts and nations1
Chapter 2.Which facts to trust in the debate on climate change? On knowledge and plausibility in times of crisis15
Chapter 3.Letters to power: Authority appeals in the communication of scientific consensus41
Chapter 4.Pivoting to support science communication in times of crisis: A case study of the Government of Canada’s Glossary on the COVID-19 pandemic65
Chapter 5.COVID-19 neologisms between metaphor and culture: A multilingual corpus-based study91
Chapter 6.Persuasion in health communication: The case of Saudi and Australian Tweets on COVID-19 Vaccination119
Chapter 7.Communicating risks of an Anti-COVID-19 vaccine in Poland: A comparative case study of content, style and advocacy of three media outlets143
Chapter 8.‘Coronavirus as a political weapon’: The COVID pandemic through the lens of the US Alt-Right Media169
Chapter 9.Science versus? The U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic197
Index225
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