Biological, Chemical, and Nutritional Food Risks and Food Safety Issues From Italian Online Information Sources:  Web Monitoring, Content Analysis, and Data Visualization

Interest in food and online communication is growing fast among marketing and business scholars. Nevertheless, this interest has been not exclusive to these areas. Researchers from different disciplines have focused their research on different concepts, target populations, approaches, methodologies, and theoretical backgrounds, making this growing body of knowledge richer, but at the same time difficult to analyze. In order to have a broader overview of this topic, this study analyzes the existent literature regarding food and social media in social sciences in order to identify the main research streams and themes explored. With this purpose, the present paper uses bibliometric methods to analyze 1356 journal articles by means of factor and social network analysis. The study contributes by revealing 4 clusters containing 11 dominant research streams within the social sciences, determining the linkages among the main research discourses, and recommending new future topics of research.

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“…Sci 10 Moon and Shim ( 2019 ) J. Commun. Manag 10 Tiozzo et al ( 2020 ) J. Med. Internet Res 9 Hanssen et al ( 2018 ) Jcom-J.…”

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Food and social media: a research stream analysis

García-León

Teichert

2023

Manag Rev Q

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“…Serving as the “opinion leader”, the media accelerates the dissemination of food safety information and food risk and safety issues are widely reported by online media (Tiozzo et al. , 2020).…”

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“…Serving as the "opinion leader", the media accelerates the dissemination of food safety information and food risk and safety issues are widely reported by online media (Tiozzo et al, 2020). Due to information asymmetry, media coverage is considered to be a reliable source of information about food safety and easily influences the purchasing behavior of the public (Fleming et al, 2006;Laestadius et al, 2012;Peng et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Trust and consumer confidence in the safety of dairy products in China

Zhang

Guan

Jin

2021

BFJ

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PurposeThis study aims to explore the degree of Chinese consumers' trust and confidence in the Chinese dairy products supply chain and the relationships between trust and overall confidence in dairy products safety and quality.Design/methodology/approachThis study collected data from 1,278 respondents by field survey from five provinces of China. The data were analyzed using ordered logit model.FindingsThis study shows the following results: (1) Chinese consumer confidence in domestic dairy products and trust in actors of the dairy chain are at a moderate-to-low level. (2) Government regulators are considered to take the most responsibility, with both an optimism-enhancing and a pessimism-reducing effect (the former effect is greater), while perceived trust in dairy farmers and retailers has little effect. (3) Perceived care has both an optimism-enhancing and a pessimism-reducing effect, and the former effect is stronger. Competence and openness have an optimism-enhancing effect and a pessimism-reducing effect, respectively. (4) The importance of the three dimensions of trust related to optimism-increasing and pessimism-reduction is limited, except in the case of government regulators.Originality/valueThis study contributes to a better understanding of consumer trust in food safety and also help demonstrate to the actors and institutions involved in the dairy supply chain the best way to improve the performance of their duties to meet the consumers' needs for safe and quality dairy products.

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“…The data collection was carried out through the WebLive application (http://www.web-live.it, (accessed on 5 March 2018); cf. [29,30]), a cloud-based web platform developed by Extreme Srl. A total of 648,399 items were collected.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Don’t Worry, Honey: It’s Cooked’: Addressing Food Risk during Pregnancy on Facebook Italian Posts

Rizzoli

Mascarello

Pinto

et al. 2021

Foods

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During pregnancy, women exposed to microbiological risks are more susceptible to contracting specific pathogens, which can lead to serious diseases both in the mother and the foetus. Food-borne diseases can be avoided to a large extent by following good practices of food manipulation and cooking. Safe eating behaviours are influenced by knowledge and perception of food risks and are constructed, among others, online. Pregnant women often use Web 2.0 to obtain and share pregnancy-related information as a strategy of collective coping with emotions through conversations. This paper explores how knowledge and perceptions of food risks during pregnancy are shared among users on Italian Facebook pages and groups. The corpus, including 648,399 items (i.e., posts), was analysed: (a) first, by means of the Reinert method, to verify to what extent issues concerning food risks are debated; and (b) second, through a manual content analysis, to observe how food risks are addressed in terms of contents and social sharing of emotions. The main results show that food risk is not among the most discussed topics, and the least known and debated food risks are the most widespread (e.g., campylobacteriosis). Sometimes, food risks, when addressed, were minimised or denied, and the belief to be ‘less at risk’ than peers for such risk (i.e., optimistic bias) was observed. The results underline the importance, for health institutions, of building a tailored communication strategy on food risks during pregnancy to promote correct food behaviours by exploiting social networks.

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Biological, Chemical, and Nutritional Food Risks and Food Safety Issues From Italian Online Information Sources: Web Monitoring, Content Analysis, and Data Visualization

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Food and social media: a research stream analysis

Food and social media: a research stream analysis

Trust and consumer confidence in the safety of dairy products in China

‘Don’t Worry, Honey: It’s Cooked’: Addressing Food Risk during Pregnancy on Facebook Italian Posts

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