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Disinformation and health: fact-checking strategies of Spanish health public institutions through YouTube 虚假信息与健康：西班牙公共卫生机构通过 YouTube 进行事实核查的策略

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1406852

M. Vázquez-Gestal, Jesús Pérez-Seoane, Ana-Belén Fernández-Souto

{"title":"Disinformation and health: fact-checking strategies of Spanish health public institutions through YouTube","authors":"M. Vázquez-Gestal, Jesús Pérez-Seoane, Ana-Belén Fernández-Souto","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1406852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1406852","url":null,"abstract":"Through their social media, public institutions address fake news and tackle disinformation that affects both them and the general public. With the rise of online video platforms, the audiovisual format has made its way as a dynamic and engaging format that allows for the creation of narratives to counter distorted information. This circumstance is particularly noticeable in the healthcare sector, where most of the recent fact-checking activity is taking place.Through the analysis of the official YouTube channels of the health departments of all Spanish autonomous communities from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2023, this paper explores the use of audiovisual fact-checking by Spanish regional governments, and it describes the nature of these videos and the strategies undertaken on that platform to tackle disinformation.Despite the expected territorial disparities, the research findings show that an increasing number of Spanish regional health authorities are using YouTube to fight disinformation. They also show that the videos posted on that platform provide a strong response to fake news, either as a preventive measure or in response to existing publications.In the current landscape of declining mass media, where audience dispersion leads a to (sometimes deliberate) fragmentation of discourse, we are confronted with the paradox of being a society with access to a vast amount of information, but not well-informed. Therefore, it is essential to have strong institutions that verify fake content through popular formats.","PeriodicalId":31739,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140972551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Constructing images of HCWs in Chinese government Weibo posts: a discourse-historical approach 构建中国政府微博中的医护人员形象：一种话语历史方法

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1320228

Xueyu Wang, Zheng Zheng

{"title":"Constructing images of HCWs in Chinese government Weibo posts: a discourse-historical approach","authors":"Xueyu Wang, Zheng Zheng","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1320228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1320228","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the image construction of front-line healthcare workers (HCWs) in Chinese government Weibo (microblogs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we rely on a discourse-historical approach to analyze 1,510 posts collected from an influential government Weibo account, @healthchina (健康中国), during the first wave of the pandemic to investigate the diverse images of HCWs constructed, the discursive strategies employed, and the pragma-linguistic devices used by @healthchina. The data analyses find that Chinese HCWs are depicted as professional and competent in addressing the pandemic crisis, compassionate and caring to their patients, and responsible and devoted to public health. Two discursive strategies are found salient in HCW’s image construction—nomination and predication realized through the identity labels, attitude/judgment resources, metaphors and comparisons, pictures, and hashtags. We argue that Chinese government microbloggers intentionally constructed these images of the HCWs to elicit positive emotional responses, reinforce government trustworthiness, and foster social cohesion in the collective fight against the pandemic. This research underscores the strategic communication efforts aimed at shaping the perception of HCWs and their pivotal role in managing the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":31739,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140973885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Post-truth conspiracism and the pseudo-public sphere 后真相阴谋论与伪公共领域

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1384363

Daniël de Zeeuw

{"title":"Post-truth conspiracism and the pseudo-public sphere","authors":"Daniël de Zeeuw","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1384363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1384363","url":null,"abstract":"Rather than seeking to recuperate the ideal of a digital public sphere or lament its demise with the rise of social media platforms, in this paper I seek to identify the dangers of precisely this insistence to imagine the Internet as a public sphere. It is this curious insistence and persistence that, I claim, may feed into precisely those post-truth media dynamics such critical accounts worry about and rally against. The success of viral conspiracy narratives like Pizzagate and QAnon, as well as other forms of mis- and disinformation, hinges not (only) on the absence or distortion of a healthy democratic public sphere, as is typically assumed, but (also) on its persistence as an imaginary in an environment that obeys an altogether different set of logics, namely that of ‘communicative capitalism’ and ‘information warfare.’ Whereas the former has drawn most critical attention in connection to current post-truth dynamics (e.g., the effects of targeted advertising and the role of algorithms in creating polarizing echo chambers and filter bubbles), I will instead focus on the latter. The unique problem and ‘cunning’ of what I refer to as ‘post-truth conspiracism’ is that it draws on idea(l)s of digital publicness to establish its own epistemic legitimacy, as well as derive its unique powers of persuasion, while also mobilizing the full tactical arsenal of information warfare in a global attention economy. The resulting weaponization of digital public sphere imaginaries complicates attempts to recuperate the idea(l) of a digital public sphere as a solution to a ‘polluted’ information environment.","PeriodicalId":31739,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140979808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Inclusive innovation stems from environmental communication scholarship 包容性创新源于环境交流学术研究

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1395964

Leigh A. Bernacchi

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Multilingual use assessment questionnaire: a proposal for assessing language and literacy experience 多语言使用评估问卷：评估语言和读写经验的建议

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1394727

M. Aparici, E. Rosado, L. Tolchinsky

{"title":"Multilingual use assessment questionnaire: a proposal for assessing language and literacy experience","authors":"M. Aparici, E. Rosado, L. Tolchinsky","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1394727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1394727","url":null,"abstract":"The linguistic profile of multilingual individuals can vary significantly due to diversity in linguistic experience. This poses challenges for language researchers, educators, and clinical practitioners. We developed a Multilingual Use Assessment Questionnaire (MUAQ) to capture the heterogeneous nature of multilinguals profiles integrating three dimensions: self-assessment of language(s) competence, language(s) use for mental operations, and language(s) use in different contexts. The questionnaire was administered to bilingual Catalan/Spanish children and adults across three educational levels: elementary school (year 6), secondary school (year 10), and university level. The application of the MUAQ revealed that Catalan/Spanish bilinguals displayed variations in their self-assessed proficiency based on the type of linguistic activity required by each language. While high bilingual competence was concentrated in oral comprehension, production skills exhibited lower bilingual competence and a strong asymmetry between languages emerged in writing. Also, more pronounced preferences for one language were observed for Thinking and Counting. Whereas Catalan (the language of schooling) was more frequently preferred for Counting, a more multilingual approach was observed for Thinking. A significant heterogeneity was also evident in the language(s) used in different contexts, with each third of the study population demonstrating distinct patterns of linguistic behavior depending on the context. An Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) identified two key dimensions (linguistic competence skills and languages involved in mental operations) that accounted for a substantial portion of the variance, while the third dimension (language use in different contexts) bifurcated into situational/communicative vs. personal contexts. These results endorse multidimensional approaches for a comprehensive understanding of multilingualism.","PeriodicalId":31739,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140978796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Branding countries through multicultural events: a quantitative analysis of the impact of the FIFA World Cup 2022 on Qatar’s brand 通过多元文化活动打造国家品牌：2022 年国际足联世界杯对卡塔尔品牌影响的定量分析

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1337088

Lucyann Kerry, Pablo Medina Aguerrebere, Scott Burgess, Lakhdar Chadli

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Editorial: Instructional communication competence and instructor social presence: enhancing teaching and learning in the online environment 社论：教学交流能力与教师的社会存在：加强网络环境中的教学与学习

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1397570

Sherwyn P. Morreale, Patrick Lowenthal, Janice Thorpe, Larisa Olesova

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Editorial: Capturing talk: the institutional practices surrounding the transcription of spoken language 社论：捕捉谈话：围绕口语转录的机构实践

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1417465

Helen Fraser, Kate Haworth, F. Deamer, Debbie Loakes, Emma Richardson, Martha Komter

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Navigating the climate change minefield: the influence of metaphor on climate doomism 穿越气候变化雷区：隐喻对气候末日论的影响

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1380092

Caitlin Johnstone, Elise Stickles

{"title":"Navigating the climate change minefield: the influence of metaphor on climate doomism","authors":"Caitlin Johnstone, Elise Stickles","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1380092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1380092","url":null,"abstract":"Climate doomism is an increasing concern for climate change communication. In the United States, this opinion regarding anthropogenic climate change is now more prevalent than climate skepticism, and is the primary reason cited for opposition to climate action. Doomism is the belief that catastrophic warming of the planet is now inevitable, and that effective mitigation is impossible. The behaviors resulting from this view are comparable to the result of climate skepticism: doomism produces paralyzing eco-anxiety and subsequently inaction. Prior work has hypothesized that the rise in climate doomism and eco-anxiety is linked to climate change risk communication. This study investigates the possibility that the metaphoric language used to communicate the severity and urgency of climate change could inadvertently promote doomism. We employ a survey model to test the influence of metaphoric language on perception of urgency, feasibility, and individual agency in relation to the climate crisis. American English-speaking participants (N = 1,542) read a paragraph describing climate change either as a “cliff edge” or “minefield,” with human agency manipulated to be present or absent. Responses were considered to be doomist if they reported a high sense of urgency, paired with a low sense of feasibility and/or agency; this indicates they have a high awareness of the risks associated with the climate crisis, but a low belief that it will be addressed, and/or that their actions can produce meaningful change. Use of either metaphor improved perceived feasibility without a reduction in urgency, indicating that metaphor is an effective climate communication strategy for conveying risk without promoting doomism. However, metaphoric presentation is only effective when paired with human agency, suggesting that agency is a necessary component for successful metaphoric climate communication strategies.","PeriodicalId":31739,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141017531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Patient-centered communication’s association with trust, satisfaction, and perception of electronic health records use among newly diagnosed patients with cancer 以患者为中心的沟通与新诊断癌症患者对电子病历使用的信任度、满意度和认知度的关系

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1391981

Safa Elkefi, Onur Asan, Zhongyuan Yu, Tina Yen, Scott Rowley

{"title":"Patient-centered communication’s association with trust, satisfaction, and perception of electronic health records use among newly diagnosed patients with cancer","authors":"Safa Elkefi, Onur Asan, Zhongyuan Yu, Tina Yen, Scott Rowley","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1391981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1391981","url":null,"abstract":"The diagnosis of cancer creates immediate psychosocial distress for patients. New cancer patients are required to make important decisions about their treatment. Thus, it is essential to investigate their communication needs. This study examines the association between patient-centered communication and newly diagnosed cancer patients’ trust in their healthcare providers, satisfaction with the care visits, and perception of technology use during the visits.We collected data from the Hackensack Meridian Health between February 2021 and May 2022. One hundred thirty-five participants were included in the study.The findings captured the significant effect of patient-centered communication on the trust in doctors and satisfaction with care services. However, no association was noticed with the perception of EHR use among this population.In the first visits after cancer diagnosis, patients need to build strong communication with their doctors to build trust in them. Future studies should focus on testing the hypotheses longitudinally to validate the findings in other phases of the cancer care continuum.","PeriodicalId":31739,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141018577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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