scholarly journals How Does Risk-Information Communication Affect the Rebound of Online Public Opinion of Public Emergencies in China?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 7760
Author(s):  
Shan Gao ◽  
Ye Zhang ◽  
Wenhui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Risk Information ◽  
Information Feedback ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Public Emergency

The rebound of online public opinion is an important driving force in inducing a secondary crisis in the case of public emergencies. Effective risk-information communication is an important means to manage online public opinion regarding emergencies. This paper employs fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to discover which conditions are combined and may result in the rebound of online public opinion. Five conditions were selected: the type of public emergency, messengers, message attributes, audience, and information feedback. The study used a sample of 25 major public emergencies that occurred between 2015 and 2020 in China. The type of public emergency, audience, and information feedback emerged as critical influencing factors. Message attributes promote the rebound of online public opinion regarding public health emergencies, while messengers play a traction role in the rebound of online public opinion on other types of public emergencies. This study extends risk-information communication theory from the perspective of the type of emergency, explores the causes of rebounded online public opinion regarding public emergencies, and provides policies and suggestions for risk-information communication and online public-opinion governance during emergencies.

Realignment and Beyond

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell J. Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Electoral Systems ◽  
The Political ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Societal Changes

Affluent democracies have experienced tremendous socio-economic changes since the mid- twentieth century, which has reshaped public opinion, party programs, and electoral choices. This chapter first summarizes the societal changes that have been a driving force behind the political changes described in this study. One pattern involves the longstanding economic issues of contemporary democracies, and shifting social positions on these issues. In addition, an evolving cultural cleavage and its ties to broader attitudes toward social change have altered citizen policy preferences. In most affluent democracies, the parties’ responses to these changing citizen demands have produced a realignment to represent both economic and cultural positions. The chapter concludes by discussing the implications of the findings for the working of electoral systems and the democratic process more broadly.

The Dynamic of Qinghai Lake Area for Remote Sensing Monitoring and the Analysis of its Driving Force

2014 ◽  
Vol 971-973 ◽  
pp. 2162-2167
Author(s):  
Bao Kang Liu ◽  
Yu E Du ◽  
Ai Jun Hu
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Water Body ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Qinghai Lake ◽  
Lake Area ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Large Lakes ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Area Variation ◽  
Environmental Mitigation

Remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) are an important means of monitoring water body areas for large lakes and water reservoirs. This study is based on environment and mitigation satellite CCD data characteristics of China's own R & D, using the combining method of multi-band and single-band to construct a water body identification patterns based on environmental mitigation satellite and extracting the water body area of Qinghai Lake since the September of 2008 to 2011 during April - November each year. Then the variations characters of the annual, seasonal and monthly were analyzed during 2008 and 2011. At last, induced its driving force of area variation of Qinghai Lake.

scholarly journals The Communication Ethics of WeChat Public Platforms

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ranni Zhang ◽  
Qiqi Zhong ◽  
Songping Yang ◽  
Boya Wang
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
New Media ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
College Education ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Supervision System ◽  
Communication Ethics ◽  
Correct Orientation

In the new media era, the information is updating each passing day. Although the official communication of college education is carried out efficiently by the platform of WeChat public account, it is interfered by its muddy information, the abuse of freedom of speech and rumors spreads. This phenomenon leads to the moral misconduct and the marginalization of the legal system. It is imperative to build the communication ethics and norms of Wechat public platform in Colleges and universities. The significance of the construction of the WeChat public platform communication theory and regulations from the perspectives of disseminating the correct orientation of public opinion is discussed in this paper, in order to improve the communication information literacy of netizens and meet the need of network supervision system, and suggest the path for exploring correlative strategy.

scholarly journals Topic Relevance of Public Health Emergencies Influence on Internet Public Opinion Resonance: Simulation Based on Langevin’s Equation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Quan Cheng ◽  
Yan-gang Zhang ◽  
Yi-quan Li
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Stochastic Resonance ◽  
Resonance Phenomenon ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Resonance Model ◽  
Mutual Correlation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Topic Relevance

Public health emergencies occurred frequently, which usually result in the negative Internet public opinion events. In the complex network information ecological environment, multiple public opinion events may be aggregated to generate public opinion resonance due to the topic category, the mutual correlation of the subject involved, and the compound accumulation of specific emotions. In order to reveal the phenomenon and regulations of the public opinion resonance, we firstly analyze the influence factors of the Internet public opinion events in the public health emergencies. Then, based on Langevin’s equation, we propose the Internet public opinion stochastic resonance model considering the topic relevance. Furthermore, three exact public health emergencies in China are provided to reveal the regulations of evoked events “revival” caused by original events. We observe that the Langevin stochastic resonance model considering topic relevance can effectively reveal the resonance phenomenon of Internet public opinion caused by public health emergencies. For the original model without considering the topic relevance, the new model is more sensitive. Meanwhile, it is found that the degree of topic relevance between public health emergencies has a significant positive correlation with the intensity of Internet public opinion resonance.

scholarly journals Harold Innis' "Crisis in Public Opinion": Performance, Retrieval, and the Politics of Knowledge

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Buxton ◽  
Risa Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Public Crisis ◽  
Original Speech ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The University ◽  
Collective Engagement ◽  
Le Canada

Abstract: On May 12, 1943, Harold Innis delivered a speech entitled “The Crisis in Public Opinion” at the annual luncheon of the Canadian National Newspapers and Periodicals Association, held in Toronto. The address has survived in transcript form in the Innis Papers collection at the University of Toronto Archives. Our paper can best be seen as a companion piece to the edited transcription of Innis’ original speech, which follows in this issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication. Emphasizing the performative nature of the speech, we contextualize “The Crisis of Public Opinion” by examining the correspondence leading up to and following the speech. We argue that Innis’ views on the “crisis of public opinion” in the print media indicate that he understood this particular issue as part of a broader public crisis related to the decline of political and juridical institutions and to shifts in power and influence. His commentary on media in Canada was bound up with his effort to promote collective engagement as a corrective to the biases in power that he had detected. The 1943 speech is thus significant not simply as a “missing link” between Innis’ writings on Canada and his later work on communication theory; it is a clear and compelling distillation of the engagement, enactment, and performance that were the abiding features of his work as an intellectual. Résumé : Le 12 mai 1943 à Toronto, Harold Innis a prononcé un discours intitulé « The Crisis in Public Opinion » au déjeuner annuel du Canadian National Newspapers and Periodicals Association (« Association canadienne des journaux et périodiques nationaux »). La transcription de ce discours a été conservée dans la collection des écrits d’Innis aux Archives de l’Université de Toronto. Notre article se veut un pendant à la transcription éditée du discours original d’Innis qui suit dans ce numéro du Canadian Journal of Communication. Tout en soulignant son caractère performatif, nous replaçons « The Crisis in Public Opinion » dans son contexte par l’examen de la correspondance qui l’a précédé et suivi. Nous soutenons que la manière dont Innis percevait la « crise de l’opinion publique » dans la presse écrite indique qu’il comprenait que cette question faisait partie d’une crise publique plus vaste correspondant au déclin d’institutions politiques et juridiques et à des transferts de pouvoir et d’influence. Ses commentaires sur les médias au Canada se rattachent à son effort de promouvoir un engagement collectif dont le but serait de minimiser les déséquilibres de pouvoir qu’il avait observés. Ainsi, le discours de 1943 n’est pas seulement significatif à titre de « chaînon manquant » dans les écrits d’Innis sur le Canada et, plus tard, sur la théorie en communication; il est aussi une distillation claire et attirante de l’engagement, de la motivation et de la performance qui étaient des traits constants de son travail d’intellectuel.

scholarly journals No Generalizable Effect of Income Inequality on Public Support for Redistribution among Rich Democracies, 1980-2010

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nate Breznau ◽  
Carola Hommerich
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Model Specification ◽  
General Effect ◽  
Least Squares Regression ◽  
The Public

We revisit a longstanding hypothesis that the public become more supportive of redistributive policy as income inequality rises. Previous tests of this hypothesis using various forms of general least squares regressions are inconclusive. We suggest improvements and alternatives to these tests. Using the World Inequality Data and International Social Survey Program we analyze 91 surveys in 19 countries. We incorporate three alternative measures of income inequality, including a measure of liberalization as a known cause of income inequality increases. We also employ two alternative test formats that arguably reflect the data generating model better than a least squares regression. The first is vector-autoregression aiming to account for path dependency of public opinion and income inequality, and the endogeneity between them. Next is qualitative comparative analysis to capture sets of conditions that collectively should have led to inequality having an impact on public opinion. Finally, we run our regression models separately for low and high socio-economic strata. In all tests we find no measurable impact of income inequality on support for redistribution. From a macro-perspective we argue that this suggests ruling out a general effect that exists across space and time, and focusing instead on theory to explain why there should not be a general effect. Some arguments suggest the public are normatively opposed to what sounds like ‘handouts’. We therefore discuss model specification via theory, but also Type II errors, statistical power and the limitations of our conclusions.

The Development of a Secure Hospital Messaging and Communication Platform

2019 ◽  
pp. 277-301
Author(s):  
Hoda Moghimi ◽  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Communication Systems ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Hospital Communication ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Hospital Communication Systems

Pagers and phone conversations have been the stalwarts of hospital communication. With good reason - they are simple, reliable and relatively inexpensive. However, with the increasing complexity of patient care, the need for greater speed and the general inexorable progress of health technology, hospital communication systems appear to be increasingly inefficient, non-secure, and inadequate. Thus, this study is proposed to answer the key research question: How can ICT (information communication technology) solutions ameliorate the current challenges regarding communication inefficiencies within healthcare? To answer this question, the study will design and develop a bespoke ICT solution for a specific context using three strong theories; communication theory, activity theory and agency theory to make a robust body of knowledge for the proposed solution. Further, it will serve to establish proof of concept, usability and feasibility of the proffered solution. The study participants will be selected from medical and nursing staff.

scholarly journals Experience, experts, statistics, or just science? Predictors and consequences of reliance on different evidence types during the COVID-19 infodemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 096366252110096
Author(s):  
Hang Lu ◽  
Haoran Chu ◽  
Yanni Ma
Keyword(s):  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Disease Outbreak ◽  
Risk Information ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Us ◽  
Processing Variables

As an unprecedented global disease outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic is also accompanied by an infodemic. To better cope with the pandemic, laypeople need to process information in ways that help guide informed judgments and decisions. Such information processing likely involves the reliance on various evidence types. Extending the Risk Information Seeking and Processing model via a two-wave survey ( N = 1284), we examined the predictors and consequences of US-dwelling Chinese’s reliance on four evidence types (i.e. scientific, statistical, experiential, and expert) regarding COVID-19 information. Overall, Risk Information Seeking and Processing variables such as information insufficiency and perceived information gathering capacity predicted the use of all four evidence types. However, other Risk Information Seeking and Processing variables (e.g. informational subjective norms) did not emerge as important predictors. In addition, different evidence types had different associations with subsequent disease prevention behaviors and satisfaction with the US government’s action to address the pandemic. Finally, discrete emotions varied in their influences on the use of evidence types, behaviors, and satisfaction. The findings provide potentially valuable contributions to science and health communication theory and practice.

The sixth estate: tech media corruption in the age of information

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-573
Author(s):  
Edward Howlett Spence
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Share Information ◽  
Media Company

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how some of the information and communication practices of the Tech Media and specifically of Facebook, constitute media corruption. The paper will examine what the professional role of Facebook is regarding its information/communication practices and then demonstrate that Facebook is essentially a media company and not merely a “platform,” therefore liable to the same normative responsibilities as other media companies. Design/methodology/approach Applying the dual obligation information theory (DOIT), a normative information and communication theory that applies generally to all media companies that disseminate and share information, the paper demonstrates that Facebook’s role of mediating and curating the information of its users places upon it a normative editing responsibility, to ensure both the preventive detection and corrective editing of fake news, as well as other forms of misinformation disseminated on its platform. Finally, applying a philosophical model of media corruption the paper will demonstrate that Facebook’s role in the Cambridge Analytica case was not only unethical but moreover, constituted media corruption. Findings The paper concludes that Facebook’s media corruption illustrated in the Cambridge Analytica case is not a one-off case but the result of a systemic and inherent conflict of interest between its business model of selling users’ information to advertisers and its normative media role rendering the conflict of interest between those two roles conducive to media corruption. Originality/value The paper's originality is twofold. It demonstrates that Facebook is a media company normatively accountable on the basis of an original theory the DOIT and moreover, on the basis of an original media corruption theory its actions in the Cambridge Analytica case constituted media corruption.

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