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Crisis communication during a national fire disaster

dc.contributor.authorPereira, Sandra Cristina Martins
dc.contributor.authorNobre, Paula Cristina do Nascimento
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-07T12:17:11Z
dc.date.available2021-01-07T12:17:11Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionArtigo baseado na comunicação proferida no International 25th International Public Relations Research Symposium BledCom, realizado no Rikli Balance Hotel, em Lake Bled, Eslovénia, 05-07 julho 2018.pt_PT
dc.description.abstractThis paper combines two topics: “government public relations and public crisis communication” with the “erosion of trust in (public) authorities”. It is difficult to discuss public crisis communication without considering the damages and implications to people’s trust in public and governmental institutions. Purpose: Study a particular severe situation that forced the Portuguese government to react and communicate with the public to then draw conclusions about the consequences of that reaction/communication. Mainly, establish a correlation between the government’s performance, its response strategy to the crisis that followed a big fire and the growing lack of trust in political bodies. Methodology: This research followed two sequential procedures - a stakeholder analysis and a content analysis applied to information materials collected from the Portuguese government official portal, between 17 June and 12 October 2017. Findings: The results point out for a crisis response strategy that tries to avoid the citizen’s distrust emphasizing the government’s competence dealing with the fire issue and its consequences. Research limitations: Being a sensitive issue, there were difficulties in the direct access to eventual goals and strategies behind the crisis management in the reported situation. In addition, because this is an exploratory study the citizen’s opinion is not yet included in this research stage. Originality/value: Looking at the links between the issues of ‘crisis communication’ and ‘trust’ the study intends to bring awareness to the important role that public relations function can play in helping governments to manage communication in a crisis context, providing enlightening for future crisis that may harm the trust in political institutions.en
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dc.identifier.citationPereira, S. & Nobre, P. (2019). Crisis communication during a national fire disaster. In Proceedings of the 25th International Public Relations Research Symposium BledCom, Lake Bled, Slovenia, 05-07 jul, 2018 (pp. 136-152). Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana.pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn978-961-235-890-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/12586
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherUniversity of Ljubljanapt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.bledcom.com/asset/e4jncY725ieACmkMTpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectGovernment public relationsen
dc.subjectCrisis communicationen
dc.subjectPolitical trusten
dc.subjectDigital communication platformspt_PT
dc.titleCrisis communication during a national fire disasteren
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dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.conferencePlaceLjubljanapt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage152pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage136pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleProceedings of the 25th International Public Relations Research Symposium BledComen
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typebookPartpt_PT

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