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Dramaturgy and crisis management: A third act
- Source :
- Public Administration. 100:585-599
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2021.
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Abstract
- Dramaturgical perspectives have been used successfully in the past by crisis management researchers. However, previous contributions have been limited because they have been actor-centered, which has meant that they have tended to ignore the critical role that an audience can play in the drama of a crisis. This article therefore presents a “third act” in which dramaturgical perspectives are used to deliver an actor-and-audience centered analysis of crisis management. This third act is built around the dramaturgical concept of “characterization,” which we introduce to assess how an audience receives the symbolic outputs and discourses that are produced by crisis actors. After this theorizing, we present an analytical model, which will allow future researchers to analyze the interplay between actor, audience, and legitimacy when examining crisis. We conclude by illustrating the model's analytical capacity via an examination of the role of leaders and experts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Subjects :
- 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Public Administration
Sociology and Political Science
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
business.industry
COVID-19
Dramaturgy
Crisis management
Public relations
Coronavirus
1606 Political Science
16 Studies in Human Society
Political science
Pandemic
The Symbolic
business
Legitimacy
Drama
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14679299 and 00333298
- Volume :
- 100
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Public Administration
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....186ed52be2f4bf845a3a491963d58065