Misinformation Inoculation and Literacy Support Tweetorials on COVID-19

IF 1.8 2区文学 Q3 BUSINESS

Journal of Business and Technical Communication Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1177/1050651920958505

S. Graham

引用次数: 11

Abstract

Many expected federal public health agencies to provide timely and accurate information about the COVID-19 pandemic. That did not happen. In response, physicians and epidemiologists have explored new ways to educate the public about COVID-19 and protect against misinformation. One genre that has received significant uptake is the tweetorial, threaded tweets that educate followers on technical matters. This article builds on prior genre studies of the tweetorial to explore how #MedTwitter and #EpiTwitter communities have refashioned the emerging conventions of the tweetorial as part of efforts to protect the public from COVID-19 misinformation.

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误传接种和扫盲支持关于COVID-19的推文

许多人期望联邦公共卫生机构提供有关COVID-19大流行的及时准确信息。但这并没有发生。作为回应，医生和流行病学家探索了新的方法来教育公众了解COVID-19并防范错误信息。有一种类型的推文已经得到了广泛的接受，即向关注者传授技术问题的推文。本文以先前的推文类型研究为基础，探讨#MedTwitter和#EpiTwitter社区如何重塑推文的新兴惯例，作为保护公众免受COVID-19错误信息侵害的努力的一部分。

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Journal of Business and Technical Communication Multiple-

CiteScore

5.10

自引率

18.20%

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期刊介绍： JBTC is a refereed journal that provides a forum for discussion of communication practices, problems, and trends in business, professional, scientific, and governmental fields. As such, JBTC offers opportunities for bridging dichotomies that have traditionally existed in professional communication journals between business and technical communication and between industrial and academic audiences. Because JBTC is designed to disseminate knowledge that can lead to improved communication practices in both academe and industry, the journal favors research that will inform professional communicators in both sectors. However, articles addressing one sector or the other will also be considered.