Media consumption and evaluation of government performance in dealing with COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia

Todosijević, Bojan and Pavlović, Zoran and Stanojević, Dragan (2020) Media consumption and evaluation of government performance in dealing with COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia. In: Political and economic self-constitution: Media, political culture and democracy : Proceedings of the 8th international scientific and practical seminar. Institute of Social Sciences, Center for Personal and Social Transformations, Belgrade ; Kyiv, pp. 18-23. ISBN 978-86-9073-243-2

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Abstract

Across the globe, societal reactions to the on-going Covid-19 pandemic revealed a close interaction between politics and the ability of societies to effectively deal with the pandemic. On the one side, political factors affected perceptions and preferred policies regarding the pandemic, while on the other side, the pandemic – the threat posed by it, restrictions, controversies – have affected political processes, and individual political attitudes and evaluations. In this interaction between government actions and citizens’ political attitudes, mass media are likely to play an important role. Normatively, the main role of the media is to transfer important information to the public in an objective and unbiased manner. It is, however, well known that this ideal image does not always fit the reality and that media are sometimes politically and ideologically biased.

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