ArticlePloS one2020
COVID-19: Retransmission of official communications in an emerging pandemic.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 73 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Internet-Based Communication for Public Health: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Social Media Use for Health Purposes: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
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- The road to recovery: Sensing public opinion towards reopening measures with social media data in post-lockdown cities.Cities (London, England) · 2023Article
- Understanding the effects of message cues on COVID-19 information sharing on Twitter.Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2022Article
- COVID-19 messaging in U.S. state parks: Extensions of the outdoor recreation strategies and practices framework unmasked by the pandemic.Journal of outdoor recreation and tourism · 2021Article
- Emergency Response and Risk Communication Effects of Local Media during COVID-19 Pandemic in China: A Study Based on a Social Media Network.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Exploring the Expression Differences Between Professionals and Laypeople Toward the COVID-19 Vaccine: Text Mining Approach.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- Health authorities' health risk communication with the public during pandemics: a rapid scoping review.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A review.Physics reports · 2021Review
- What social media told us in the time of COVID-19: a scoping review.The Lancet. Digital health · 2021Article
- Platform Effects on Public Health Communication: A Comparative and National Study of Message Design and Audience Engagement Across Twitter and Facebook.JMIR infodemiologyArticle
- Cutting Through the Noise: Predictors of Successful Online Message Retransmission in the First 8 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Health securityArticle
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Abstract
As the most visible face of health expertise to the general public, health agencies have played a central role in alerting the public to the emerging COVID-19 threat, providing guidance for protective action, motivating compliance with health directives, and combating misinformation. Social media platforms such as Twitter have been a critical tool in this process, providing a communication channel that allows both rapid dissemination of messages to the public at large and individual-level engagement. Message dissemination and amplification is a necessary precursor to reaching audiences, both online and off, as well as inspiring action. Therefore, it is valuable for organizational risk communication to identify strategies and practices that may lead to increased message passing among online users. In this research, we examine message features shown in prior disasters to increase or decrease message retransmission under imminent threat conditions to develop models of official risk communicators' messages shared online from February 1, 2020-April 30, 2020. We develop a lexicon of keywords associated with risk communication about the pandemic response, then use automated coding to identify message content and message structural features. We conduct chi-square analyses and negative binomial regression modeling to identify the strategies used by official risk communicators that respectively increase and decrease message retransmission. Findings show systematic changes in message strategies over time and identify key features that affect message passing, both positively and negatively. These results have the potential to aid in message design strategies as the pandemic continues, or in similar future events.
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