The doctor in my pocket: examining mobile approaches to personal wellbeing

2019 ◽  
Vol 140 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura H Crosswell
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Patient Privacy ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Personal Wellbeing ◽  
The Impact

Aims: Today’s democratized media access, online engagement, and digital clout offer global opportunities for individual influence and customized messaging strategies. As such, public health initiatives are dramatically changing as target audiences decide where to place their time and attention regarding health information. This article reports on ways in which health professionals and mobile techies are teaming up to create pocket platforms for personal wellbeing. The following work also considers how healthcare digitization and mobilization operate in relation to public wellbeing. Methods: Using a double round Delphi survey, nine industry experts were asked about the impact of new media tools on health initiatives and subsequent healthcare behaviors. The panel also addressed the impact and efficacy of the mobile health movement. Results: Expert testimony identified ways in which millennial media can encourage (and sometimes prevent) improved patient, community, and population health outcomes. Industry leaders further addressed strategic moves healthcare professionals are making to ensure personal healthcare communication remains relevant, accessible, and attainable for the general public. Clear themes emerged throughout the iterative Delphi process, resulting in the overarching categories of information access, information literacy, patient privacy, patient accountability, physician engagement, and healthcare quality. Conclusions: This work connects theory with practice by examining developing health communication strategies through compliance-gaining choice models and modern marketing research. Findings delineate best practices for health communication and administration in the digital age, providing both a critical account of and practical approach to healthcare messaging within the millennial context. Results call attention to the impact of media platforms on information distribution, adaptive communication strategies, and overall health communication processes. The study invites further discussion regarding digital shifts in healthcare messaging and subsequent influences on patient/consumer compliance.

scholarly journals HEALTH COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY THE MEDIA DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS: CASE OF ZIMBABWE BROADCASTING CORPORATION TELEVISION (ZBC –TV)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberley Sarah Muchetwa ◽  
Ephraim Maruta ◽  
Hilda Jaka ◽  
Joyman Ruvado ◽  
Evans Chazireni
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government

The paper reports findings from a study that explored health communication strategies employed by the media on the state of preparedness by the Zimbabwean government during the COVID 19 crisis by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation Television (ZBC-TV). The study adopted secondary data analysis. Data were collected using secondary sources. The study was influenced by the framing theory. The study found out that ZBC-TV used songs, road shows, commercial ads, dramas, musical shows on reporting the pandemic. The archival documents also revealed that ZBC-TV have used periodical updates as health communication strategies to educate the public about COVID 19. ZBC-TV also used Facebook showing staff from the Office of the President and Cabinet receiving the Covid 19 vaccine at the same time applauding positive response from Harare Metropolitan Province as front line workers surpassed the target under the first phase of Covid-19 vaccine roll out plan. The study concluded that the health communication strategies employed by ZBC-TV have been effective in increasing the societal awareness about health issues. ZBC-TV managed to reach out to the masses using both the television and by making use of the new media communication technologies. However, press censorship has been a challenge in publishing information concerning COVID 19 as the media house is not allowed to publish anything that tarnishes the image of the government. It is based on such evidence that the study concludes that ZBC-TV at some point distorted information to paint the picture that the government is doing all it can to contain the spread of COVID 19 and ensuring the safety of the public. The study recommends that the ministry should ensure freedom of information publicity, in which media houses, including ZBC-TV is not controlled by any political party of government. The government should also privatise ZBC-TV so that it will be answerable to the public and not few government officials. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0895/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Literasi Media Terhadap Nilai Budaya Remaja Keturunan Tionghoa Di Kota Tangerang

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-272
Author(s):  
Irmulansati Tomohardjo ◽  
Noviana Noviana
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
Research Concept

This study aims to find out how media literacy is the cultural value of teenagers of Chinese descent in the China Benteng Tangerang area. This research uses a case study method, which describes social phenomena, with data collection techniques through in-depth interviews with three speakers. The research concept used is media literacy. The results showed that adolescents of Chinese descent in the China Benteng Tangerang region had cultural awareness and understanding of intercultural interaction. They are able to optimize new media for communication processes, interactions, information access needs and the process of disseminating cultural values. They are open to different cultures, and feel the value of nationalism becomes the main when its role as a member of the community, even though descendants peranakan.

Health Communication Strategies

2022 ◽  
pp. 83-108
Author(s):  
Ece Ünür
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Risk Management Strategies ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Republic Of Turkey

This chapter focuses on the crisis and risk management strategies as parts of health communication processes applied during the COVID-19 era. For the literature part, risk and crisis communication, social media, information disorders, and infodemic are used, and for the analysis, crisis communication strategies of the Ministry of Health in the Republic of Turkey are examined. The findings reveal that the ministry takes several precautions in order to prevent the spread of the virus (like lockdowns, enclosures, strengthening health services, etc.) and to inform the public regularly via conventional and social media.

scholarly journals Quantifying Online News Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Text Mining Study and Resource

10.2196/28253 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. e28253
Author(s):  
Konrad Krawczyk ◽  
Tadeusz Chelkowski ◽  
Daniel J Laydon ◽  
Swapnil Mishra ◽  
Denise Xifara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Online News ◽  
Topic Detection ◽  
The Impact

Background Before the advent of an effective vaccine, nonpharmaceutical interventions, such as mask-wearing, social distancing, and lockdowns, have been the primary measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Such measures are highly effective when there is high population-wide adherence, which requires information on current risks posed by the pandemic alongside a clear exposition of the rules and guidelines in place. Objective Here we analyzed online news media coverage of COVID-19. We quantified the total volume of COVID-19 articles, their sentiment polarization, and leading subtopics to act as a reference to inform future communication strategies. Methods We collected 26 million news articles from the front pages of 172 major online news sources in 11 countries (available online at SciRide). Using topic detection, we identified COVID-19–related content to quantify the proportion of total coverage the pandemic received in 2020. The sentiment analysis tool Vader was employed to stratify the emotional polarity of COVID-19 reporting. Further topic detection and sentiment analysis was performed on COVID-19 coverage to reveal the leading themes in pandemic reporting and their respective emotional polarizations. Results We found that COVID-19 coverage accounted for approximately 25.3% of all front-page online news articles between January and October 2020. Sentiment analysis of English-language sources revealed that overall COVID-19 coverage was not exclusively negatively polarized, suggesting wide heterogeneous reporting of the pandemic. Within this heterogenous coverage, 16% of COVID-19 news articles (or 4% of all English-language articles) can be classified as highly negatively polarized, citing issues such as death, fear, or crisis. Conclusions The goal of COVID-19 public health communication is to increase understanding of distancing rules and to maximize the impact of governmental policy. The extent to which the quantity and quality of information from different communication channels (eg, social media, government pages, and news) influence public understanding of public health measures remains to be established. Here we conclude that a quarter of all reporting in 2020 covered COVID-19, which is indicative of information overload. In this capacity, our data and analysis form a quantitative basis for informing health communication strategies along traditional news media channels to minimize the risks of COVID-19 while vaccination is rolled out.

Transformation of education as a metatrend of the digital economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1960-1979
Author(s):  
N.A. Egina ◽  
E.S. Zemskova
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Network Education ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Positive Externalities ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Education Network ◽  
The Impact

Subject. The study focuses on the impact of the digital economy determinants of the education transformation. Objectives. The article provides our own approach treating the education capital as a specific asset of the digital economy, which has an acceleration effect and sets up new trends in education through integrative networks. Methods. The study is based on principles of the systems integration, cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. Results. The socio-economic progress was found to be determined with properties of human capital, which are solely specific to the digital economy. In new circumstances, it gets more important for actors of global, national, corporate and social networks to more actively cooperate within distributed networks in order to train high professionals, who would have skills in information networks. Thus, they would raise a new form of human capital – the capital of network education (network-based education capital). We describe positive externalities that arise when the educational sector joins communication processes. We illustrate how educational forms evolves, which are typical of a certain phase of the socio-economic development. The education capital was discovered to grow into a specific asset generating the quasi-rent and working as a social ladder only provided more actors are involved into the network. Conclusions and Relevance. Studying the evolution of educational forms through the cross-disciplinary method, we discovered the need for a system approach, which would help substantiate its transformation in the time of the digital economy, and the emergence of network-based education. These are technologies and tools of the digital economy that become unique factors generating the acceleration effect of the educational capital and ensuring the use of diverse network effects for the formation of intellectual capital and their social transformation.

The impact of the new media on public relations in the public administration in Kurdistan Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-288
Author(s):  
Dlan Ismail Mawlud ◽  
Hoshyar Mozafar Ali
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Management System ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
The Impact

The development of technology, information technology and various means of communication have a significant impact on public relations activity; especially in government institutions. Many government institutions have invested these means in their management system, in order to facilitate the goals of the institution, and ultimately the interaction between the internal and external public. In this theoretical research, I tried to explain the impact of the new media on public relations in the public administration, based on the views of specialists. The aim of the research is to know the use of the new media of public relations and how in the system of public administration, as well as, Explaining the role it plays in public relations activities of government institutions. Add to this, analyzing the way of how new media and public relations participate in the birth of e-government. In the results, it is clear that the new media has facilitated public relations between the public and other institutions, as it strengthened relations between them

scholarly journals Government Communication Strategies during Coronavirus Pandemic: United Arab Emirates Lessons

2021 ◽  
pp. 097206342098309
Author(s):  
Ahmed Farouk Radwan ◽  
Sheren Ali Mousa
Keyword(s):  
Health Communication ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
The State ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Government Communication

Government communication introduced important lessons during the worldwide experience with the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important to apply known efficacious principles of risk and health communication strategies. The purpose of the study is to depict and explore the United Arab Emirates government communication scenario in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as well as look at the types of strategies, information and messages delivered via digital mediums to handle challenges that are raised based on the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication model. The study includes a qualitative analysis of two government bodies’ digital platforms: ‘The Ministry of Health and Prevention’ (mohap) and ‘Crisis and Disasters Management Authority’. Results indicated that the UAE government used different communication aims and strategies to face the pandemic according to the risk management scenario. In the quarantine phase, communication focused on giving people information about the disease, raising awareness about the disease, motivating health and behaviour change, informing people about government decisions and procedures. In the coexistence phase communication focused on emphasising the necessity of adherence the health measures, providing information on re-work in institutions and commercial centres, involving people in the health and social initiatives, confronting non-compliance with health precautions. Government communication also focused on facing rumours and false information. UAE government communication used digital platforms and social media to address more than 200 nationalities living in the state for ensuring that they adhere to the precautionary measures and coordinate with the authorities. Government communication was committed to a set of values including equality between citizens of the state and residents, societal and individual responsibility, recognising the frontline medical staff and acknowledging their sacrifices. UAE implemented an integrated, coherent and effective scenario to deal with the crisis. It developed risk communication strategies in health communication to manage the COVID-19 crisis by following international standards and also took into account its own political, economic, social and cultural features. The UAE government used many strategies to inform and convince people including clarification of measures strategy, reassurance strategy, ambiguity reduction strategy, behaviour efficacy strategy, correcting misinformation and rumours, advising strategy.

The Effect of Statistics on Enjoyment and Perceived Credibility in Sports Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 216747952199839
Author(s):  
Dustin Hahn
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
Competitive Environments ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Media Source ◽  
The Impact

Evolving media landscapes toward increasingly diverse and competitive environments in both traditional and new media requires producers regularly examine the quality of their productions. One growing line of research identifies the increasing presence and significance of statistics in sports media programming. This experiment measures the effect of statistics on enjoyment and perceived credibility by sport consumers while considering level of fanship, media source, and variations in placement within Instagram posts. Results uncover evidence that validates previous observations about statistics in media while contradicting others. Specifically, findings reveal that statistics enhance enjoyment and improve perceived credibility. Observations were consistent across fanship level. However, additional findings also suggest media source and placement of statistics influences both enjoyment and credibility as well. For both dependent variables, statistics in both the Instagram caption and image yielded significantly greater enjoyment and credibility than some other conditions including posts without statistics at all. The impact of these and other findings on sports media industry and scholarship, along with limitations and directions for future research, are discussed.

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