When scientific experts come to be media stars: An evolutionary model tested by analysing coronavirus media coverage across Italian newspapers.

ABSTRACT: The article aims to understand the process through which scientific experts gain and maintain remarkable media visibility. It has been analysed a corpus of 213,875 articles published by the eight most important Italian newspapers across the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. By exploring this process along the different phases of the management of the emergency in Italy, it was observed that some scientific experts achieve high media visibility-and sometimes notwithstanding their low academic reputation-thus becoming a sort of "media star". Scientific literature about the relationship between experts and media is considerable, nonetheless we found a lack of theoretical models able to analyse under which conditions experts are able to enter and to remain prominent in the media sphere. A Me

SUBMITTER: Neresini F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10132554 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature