Public Communication & Covid-19

These documents refer to the research on Mexico’s Federal Government’s public communication during the covid-19 pandemic. These documents are in Spanish, but I can share a personal translation into English if requested.

 

Infrastructuring a Public Communication System to Fight a Pandemic

This text is the first chapter of the book that we are currently writing. The COVID-19 pandemic implied the construction of infrastructures and public communication systems to face the health emergency. However, most governments were not prepared for this task. They had to perform an infrastructural conversion to adapt communication systems, which were not designed for this purpose. This presentation presents the results of ethnographic research on how the Mexican Federal Government used public communication to manage the pandemic.

 

Larrosa-Fuentes, Juan S. “Mexico’s Public Communication Strategy in the Context of COVID-19.” Análisis Plural, 2020, 233–45.

 

Larrosa-Fuentes, Juan S., Perla Blas Alvarado, Julia Gómez Rodríguez, Rocío Media Ramírez, Rosalía Orozco Murillo, Magdalena Sofía Paláu Cardona, and Alejandra Toxtle Tlachino. “The Public Communication of the Mexican Government as a Strategy to Combat COVID-19: Scientific Knowledge, Collective Organization and Propaganda.” Virtual: Latin American Studies Association, 2021.