Research Article

Use of Public Service Announcements as A Social Marketing Tool in Managing the COVID-19 Pandemia Process: A Content Analysis

Volume: 17 Number: Pandemi Özel Sayısı April 30, 2021
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Use of Public Service Announcements as A Social Marketing Tool in Managing the COVID-19 Pandemia Process: A Content Analysis

Abstract

Social marketing is a concept that attempts to make the world more liveable by causing attitude and behavioural changes in individuals in bringing social benefit to the forefront and creating awareness. Institutions and organizations place importance to social marketing within the scope of social responsibility projects in order to bring the social benefit to the forefront, and provide awareness of people by using public service announcements, especially on environmental and health issues. Attitude and behavioural changes for social benefit generally form the basis of social marketing activities pioneered by the public sector. Today, public service announcements are used intensely as a tool in social marketing activities. This is because public service announcements have broadcast areas that will make it possible to reach and influence people easily in the digital era. As a social marketing tool, public service announcements are used to keep people informed, to create awareness, to persuade them to change behaviour, to attract attention to social problems and to propose solutions to these problems. The aim of the study is to provide public service announcement theming within the context of social marketing. The method of the study is to theme 34 public service announcements published by the Ministry of Health during the COVID-19 pandemic process in the context of social marketing by using a content analysis. Videos concerning public service announcements were coded and themes created with the help of the program used in qualitative data analysis. In conclusion, the emerging themes are behaviour acquisition, awareness and persuasion. Themes which are suitable for the intended use of social marketing have emerged.

Keywords

Social Marketing , Public Service Announcements , Pandemic , COVID-19 , Content Analysis

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APA
Yeşilyurt, Ö. (2021). COVID-19 Pandemi Sürecinin Yönetilmesinde Sosyal Pazarlama Aracı Olarak Kamu Spotlarının İncelenmesi: İçerik Analizi. OPUS International Journal of Society Researches, 17(Pandemi Özel Sayısı), 3470-3500. https://doi.org/10.26466/opus.855071

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