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Digital Mis/Disinformation and Public Engagment with Health and Science Controversies: Fresh Perspectives from Covid-19
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Abstract Digital media, while opening a vast array of avenues for lay people to effectively engage with news, information and debates about important science and health issues, have become a fertile land for various stakeholders to spread misinformation and disinformation, stimulate uncivil discussions and e... mehr
Digital media, while opening a vast array of avenues for lay people to effectively engage with news, information and debates about important science and health issues, have become a fertile land for various stakeholders to spread misinformation and disinformation, stimulate uncivil discussions and engender ill-informed, dangerous public decisions. Recent developments of the Covid-19 infodemic might just be the tipping point of a process that has been long simmering in controversial areas of health and science (e.g., climate-change denial, anti-vaccination, anti-5G, Flat Earth doctrines). We bring together a wide range of fresh data and perspectives from four continents to help media scholars, journalists, science communicators, scientists, health professionals and policy-makers to better understand these developments and what can be done to mitigate their impacts on public engagement with health and science controversies.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Epidemie; Impfung; Desinformation; öffentliche Meinung; Manipulation; Gesundheit; Digitale Medien
Klassifikation
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Medienpolitik, Informationspolitik, Medienrecht
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Freie Schlagwörter
COVID-19; Coronavirus; anti-5G; anti-vaccination; conspiracy theories; healh controversies; infodemic; misinformation; science controversies
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 323-328
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 8 (2020) 2
Heftthema
Health and Science Controversies in the Digital World: News, Mis/Disinformation and Public Engagement
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet