Bengt G. Johansson

Political journalism

Bengt G. Johansson

Multilevel government crisis communication on social media: A comparative and longitudinal approach

Jingyuan Yu, Emese Domahidi, Bengt G. Johansson, Nadine Steinmetz

Agenda-setting is an important way for the government to capture public attention. Different government branches, with their specific target audiences, may have different agenda prioritization strategies. In the current study, we compared the agenda-setting process across seven countries and three levels of …

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From low threat to high threat: A latent transition analysis of information-seeking repertoires during prolonged crises

Sofia Johansson, Bengt G. Johansson

Oscillating prolonged crises develop through distinct phases, shaping individuals’ information-seeking behaviors. While previous research has analyzed aggregate patterns of media use and information-seeking across groups during crises, less attention has been given to how individuals combine sources and changes in such behavior. …

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Political Crises

Bengt G. Johansson, Orla Vigsø

Crisis communication scholars are paying more and more attention to political crises, as it has become evident how political crises are strongly interrelated with other kinds of crises. In this chapter, definitions and different characteristics of political crises are discussed, and it …

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Sweden

Bengt G. Johansson, Orla Vigsø

The Swedish strategy to handle the COVID-19 received international recognition for being an outlier. Instead of a strict lockdown, which was used in many countries around the world and in Sweden’s Nordic neighbors, the strategy built on trusting individuals taking responsibility under …

Standardized mathematics testing in Sweden: the legacy of Frits Wigforss

Bengt G. Johansson, Jeremy Kilpatrick

Developed more than 50 years ago, the Swedish system of standardized testing as a means of moderating marks (or grades) is about to be replaced by a criterion- referencedmeasurementscheme. Theprincipaldeveloperoftheoriginalsystem, Frits Wigforss, was a psychologist and mathematics educator who understood the complex …

Political advertising

Christina Holtz-Bacha, Bengt G. Johansson

Political advertising has a long history and takes many forms, from the printed election poster on the wall to online ads on social media. However, most scholarly interest has been devoted to election campaigns and understanding the content and effects of television …

Alternative election news coverage?

Bengt G. Johansson, Jesper Strömbäck

In contemporary media environments, mainstream news media have become increasingly challenged by political alternative media. Even though research on how political alternative media cover politics and society has increased, there is still limited research comparing how political alternative media and mainstream news …

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Migrant Populations

Bengt G. Johansson, James Rhys Edwards

Migrant populations are often more vulnerable than majority populations during crises. Effective risk, crisis, and disaster communication is a critical means of mitigating harm to these populations. This chapter begins by defining three interrelated but distinct population categories: refugees and other migrants; …

Editorial

Darren G. Lilleker, Orla Vigsø, Bengt G. Johansson, Anastasia Veneti

The editorial places our studies into a wider context linking together the different studies which cover election campaigning protest and the Covid-19 crisis. The works focus firstly on the crisis communication strategies of Nordic political leaders and secondly on the UK government’s …

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Media Salience Shifts and the Public’s Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens’ Sociotropic Beliefs

Monika Djerf‐Pierre, Adam Shehata, Bengt G. Johansson

This article examines whether shifts in news media attention to societal issues matter for how strong beliefs citizens have about those issues. Based on an issue signal approach, in which media salience is conceptualized as signal strength, the study analyzes whether sociotropic …

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19 Instruction as Self-Protection

Bengt G. Johansson, Gabriella Sandstig

Communication about risk and safety always includes instructional elements - information that serves to enhance citizens’ self-protection capabilities with regard to various types of danger. This chapter presents an overview of the use of instruction as self-protection from a communication-centric perspective. It …