保护大流行对话:追踪Twitter在COVID-19期间不断变化的内容政策

IF 1.8 2区文学 Q3 BUSINESS

Journal of Business and Technical Communication Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1177/1050651920958393

Lacy Hope

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引用次数: 5

摘要

在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，Twitter一直是分享、接收和参与与病毒相关内容的主要公共平台。为了保护用户免受虚假信息的侵害，Twitter实施了更严格的内容审查政策。本文将Twitter定位为一个具有政治动机的实体，并简要地追溯了Twitter对“有害内容”一词的使用和应用。作者调查了该平台如何扩大有害内容的定义，这说明了Twitter打击错误信息的策略，即通过在kairotic时刻采取行动，以一种由各种权威声音塑造的方式，这种声音已经引导了更大规模的公众COVID-19讨论。文章的最后考察了这些观察在技术和专业交流课堂中可以发挥的作用。

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Protecting Pandemic Conversations: Tracing Twitter’s Evolving Content Policies During COVID-19

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Twitter has served as a leading public platform for sharing, receiving, and engaging with virus-related content. To protect users from misinformation, Twitter has enforced stricter content-vetting policies. This article positions Twitter as a politically motivated entity and briefly traces Twitter’s use and applications of the term “harmful content.” The author investigates how the platform’s broadening of its definition of harmful content illustrates Twitter’s strategy for combating misinformation by acting on kairotic moments in a way that is shaped by the diverse authoritative voices already guiding larger public COVID-19 discussions. The article concludes by examining the roles these observations can play in technical and professional communication classrooms.

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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.