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1. ‘Due turisti cinesi a Roma contagiati dal coronavirus. Chiuso il traffico aereo con la Cina’, la Repubblica, 30 gennaio 2020.
2. The Technical and scientific committee advises the head of the Civil protection agency concerning the preventive measures necessary to limit the spread of the Coronavirus.
3. Press conference available at https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=3029639847151017&ref=watch _permalink.
4. Interview conducted on 23 November 2020.
5. S. De Riccardis and M. Pisa, ‘Coronavirus, la Lombardia diventa «zona rossa». Fuga da Milano sui treni notturni, poi in stazione torna la calma’, la Repubblica, 7 March 2020.
6. ‘Coronavirus, la fuga di notizie sul decreto. Cnn: «Bozza ricevuta dall’ufficio stampa della Regione Lombardia». Che smentisce: «Falso»’, il Fatto Quotidiano, 8 March 2020.
7. F. Rizzato, ‘Analyzing Mobile Data Consumption and Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic’, www.opensignal.com, 5 October 2020.
8. A. Gevers, ‘La Pandemia di coronavirus e i cambiamenti dei comportamenti online’, www.comscore.com, 22 March 2020.
10. The figures in this column do not include comments on comments.
11. Facebook post presenting the direct video message of 21 March 2020, https://www.facebook.com/383458618802776/posts/875513522930614.
12. ‘Coronavirus, Enrico Mentana critico sul discorso del premier Conte: «Che bisogno c’era di questa comunicazione emozionale a reti unificate?»’, il Fatto Quotidiano, 22 March 2020.
13. M. Borraccino, ‘Coronavirus: Per Conte quasi 2 milioni di fan in più su Facebook. Lo voteranno?’, www.socialrecap.it, 19 April 2020.
14. A ‘meme’ is normally understood as a combination of images and text created with the intention of facilitating its sharing through the Internet and social media, and often therefore characterized by irony and paradoxical juxtapositions.
16. Data gathered by the authors on 30 December 2020.
17. According to 2018 Itanes (Italian National Election Study) data, il Fatto Quotidiano is the most widely read newspaper among those who vote for the M5s. In response to the question, ‘Which of the following (hard-copy or Internet) newspapers did you read yesterday? Choose the main newspaper’, only 66% of those intending to vote for the M5s mentioned a newspaper, but among these readers fully 28% mentioned il Fatto Quotidiano, more than those mentioning Corriere della Sera or la Repubblica, both chosen by 16% of M5s voters.
18. Interviews with Prime Minister Conte, who appeared on several television programmes to outline the measures taken by the Government deal with the pandemic are available at, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=629191091250250
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Diego Ceccobelli
Diego Ceccobelli is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy). He studies political communication in comparative perspective, with a particular focus on social media and political leaders.
Cristian Vaccari
Cristian Vaccari is Professor of Political Communication and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Press/Politics and a past Chair of the Information Technology & Politics section of the American Political Science Association. Professor Vaccari‘s most recent book is Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Comparative Perspective (with Augusto Valeriani, Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2021).