Communicating the COVID-19 Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Crisis Communication by Governments and Heads of State (SUF edition)

Full edition for scientific use. The COVID-19 pandemic confronted the world with a crisis that was massive in scale, rapid in pace, and global in scope. Governments all over the world were confronted with the challenging task of steering anxious publics through the crisis and they chose televised press conferences as their preferred means of communication. This dataset contains transcripts of 1211 press conferences with 522 speakers in 18 OECD countries and three U.S. states throughout the initial phase of COVID-19, beginning with the first public mention of COVID-19 in a press conference and ending with the first announcement of easing restrictions. In addition, the dataset includes contextual data on the countries and publicly available biographical data on the speakers.

科研专用完整版数据集。新型冠状病毒肺炎大流行（COVID-19 pandemic）给全球带来了一场规模宏大、节奏迅猛且波及范围遍及全球的危机。世界各国政府均面临一项艰巨挑战：需引导焦虑的公众顺利渡过此次危机，而电视直播新闻发布会成为其首选的沟通渠道。本数据集收录了新冠疫情初始阶段的1211场新闻发布会转录文本，涉及18个经济合作与发展组织（Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development，简称OECD）成员国及美国3个州的522位发言者，时间跨度始于首场新闻发布会上首次公开提及新冠疫情，止于首次宣布放宽防疫限制措施。此外，本数据集还包含各参会国的背景数据，以及发言者的公开生平资料。