Disentangling rhetorical subarenas of public health crisis communication: A study of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in the news media and social media in Sweden

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Rodin ◽  
Marina Ghersetti ◽  
Tomas Odén
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis

How to Quarantine False Information: What the U.S. Government May Do as False Information Spread on Social Media during a Public Health Crisis Becomes a Biosecurity Threat

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonam James
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
False Information ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Global Spread ◽  
Public Health And Safety

Abstract With the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation about the pandemic spread prolifically on social media. False or harmful information about the coronavirus pandemic spread on social media included hate-speech, vaccine misinformation, and misinformation about public health and safety measures. In the midst of a serious public health crisis, where public cooperation for mandated health and safety measures hinges on trust in government and facts, false information rapidly spread through social media becomes a biosecurity threat. This article explores whether false or harmful information can be regulated during a serious public health emergency.

Pandemic Tales

2020 ◽  
pp. 22-45
Author(s):  
Mark Davis ◽  
Davina Lohm
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Coming To Know

Chapter 2 considers in more detail the growing significance of narrative approaches to health communication on pandemic threats, reflecting on the conceptual bases for this turn in light of perspectives from narrative theory and biopolitical accounts of infectious diseases. Key themes are the folk-tale undercurrents of pandemic narratives that appear in news media and in the advice of experts and therefore also their significance for the individuals who engage with them. A key point is that narrative and its mediations are a primary point of contact for publics coming to know of a rapidly emerging public health crisis. In this respect, we introduce Sarah’s story of how she realized that she was herself possibly at risk of the virus, in part because of stories on the pandemic circulated in media she consumed.

COVID-19 and the Media in Nigeria

Glimpse ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-98
Author(s):  
Obiageli Pauline Ohiagu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

This chapter provides a Nigerian perspective to the global COVID-19 public health crisis that began in 2019. Two approaches were used to explain the impact of COVID-19 on the media in Nigeria and the effect of the latter on the spread/containment of the virus. The pandemic directly limited the operations of the media in many ways: socially, economically, and otherwise. On the other hand, both mainstream and social media was instrumental in curtailing the spread of COVID-19 through information, education, and infotainment.

scholarly journals Narrating the crisis: Moral regulation, overlapping responsibilities and COVID-19 in Canada

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212110558
Author(s):  
Sean P Hier
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Moral Regulation ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Epidemic Curve ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Moral Capital

This article theorizes some of the ways that the COVID-19 health crisis was publicly narrated and morally regulated in Canada. Beginning with Valverde’s theory of moral capital, public health crisis communication is conceptualized as dialectical claims-making activities aimed at maximizing the individual moral capital of citizens and the aggregate moral capital of nations. Valverde’s historical sociology explains how moral capital operated in relation to economic capital accumulation in the context of 19th-century moral regulation of the urban poor. This article applies aspects of Valverde’s historical framework about mixed economies of regulation to contemporary biopolitical moralization in the midst of a pandemic. It does so by arguing that responsibilizing citizens to flatten the epidemic curve of the disease contributed to the social construction of a normative pandemic subject. In this way, the analysis provides insights into how public health crisis communication explicitly intended to mitigate COVID-19 infection rates both reflected and reinforced the conjunctural norms associated with neoliberal governmentality.

Eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic: An overview of risks and recommendations for treatment and early intervention

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marita Cooper ◽  
Erin E. Reilly ◽  
Jaclyn Amanda Siegel ◽  
Kathryn Coniglio ◽  
Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Treatment Access ◽  
Pertinent Literature ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Public Health Crisis

Individuals with eating disorders (EDs) are at significant risk for increases in symptomatology and diminished treatment access during the COVID-19 pandemic. Environmental precautions to limit coronavirus spread have affected food availability and access to healthy coping mechanisms, and have contributed to weight stigmatizing social media messages that may be uniquely harmful for those experiencing EDs. Additionally, changes in socialization and routine, stress, and experiences of trauma that are being experienced globally may be particularly deleterious to ED risk and recovery. This paper presents a brief review of the pertinent literature related to risk of EDs in the context of COVID-19 and offers suggestions for modifying intervention efforts to accommodate for the unique challenges individuals with EDs and providers may be experiencing in light of the ongoing public health crisis.

How source-level and message-level factors influence journalists’ social media visibility during a public health crisis

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110231
Author(s):  
Xinzhi Zhang ◽  
Rui Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
The Us ◽  
Heuristic Systematic Model ◽  
Source Level

Social media has become a channel through which journalists distribute their work, reach audiences and gain visibility. Informed by the frameworks of journalistic branding, the heuristic-systematic model, and hypertextual elements, the present study examines the extent to which the source factor (journalists’ branding on social media profiles) and message factors (communication styles and hypertextual elements) influence visibility (i.e. the popularity of the account and the number of favourites and retweets of the posts). We analysed the Twitter profiles of 98 health journalists from seven major media organizations in the US and conducted a manual content analysis of a representative sample of their public tweets (n = 3982) published during the Covid-19 pandemic. In contrast to expectations, branding contributed little to any indicators of visibility, and profiles with institutional branding had fewer followers. Both affective messages and rational messages received more likes and retweets than messages without these elements. Tweets containing images or news-related hyperlinks received more retweets, whereas the number of @mentions in a tweet was negatively related to visibility. Journalists from traditional media, those who tweeted more often, and those with more followers had higher levels of visibility.

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