Contents
Resilience of Public Spheres in a Global Health Crisis / Hans-Jörg Trenz, Annett Heft, Michael Vaughan & Barbara Pfetsch, 111
Public Sphere in Crisis Mode: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Influenced Public Discourse and User Behaviour in the Swiss Twitter-sphere / Adrian Rauchfleisch, Daniel Vogler & Mark Eisenegger, 129
Public Sphere and Post-populism in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Short Life of Depolarisation in Argentina / Enrique Peruzzotti & Silvio Waisbord, 149
“Those on the Right Take Chloroquine”: The Illiberal Instrumentalisation of Scientific Debates during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brasil / Thaiane Oliveira, Simone Evangelista, Marcelo Alves & Rodrigo Quinan, 165
Whose Opinion Is It? Public Debates and Repertoires of Action in Greece During the First Covid-19 Lockdown Period / Sevasti Chatzopoulou & Theofanis Exadaktylos, 185
Online Hate Speech and the Radical Right in Times of Pandemic: The Italian and English Cases / Manuela Caiani, Benedetta Carlotti & Enrico Padoan, 202
Conspiracy Theories and the Crisis of the Public Sphere: COVID-19 in Slovenia / Ksenija Vidmar Horvat, 219