Communicating Mobility Restrictions During the COVID‐19 Crisis on Twitter: The Legitimacy Challenge

Bélanger, Marie-Ève; Lavenex, Sandra

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“…One possible reason might be that legitimacy, by its nature, represents an interdisciplinary, multidimensional concept, and as far as we know, there is no standardized instrument to measure legitimacy perceptions across diverse contexts. The few articles that explore the perceived legitimacy of antipandemic regulations tend to focus on specific cases, most often on communications regarding timeliness, consistency, and appeals to solidarity (Bélanger & Lavenex, 2021; Kornblit, 2022). However, to our knowledge, more comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and international comparisons of perceived legitimacy are still missing.…”

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Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Lacko,

Horák,

Klicperová-Baker

et al. 2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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This interdisciplinary study examines the cross-cultural differences between the perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis in three Central European countries and four independent samples (West Germany, East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia). A total of 2,752 participants completed a newly developed seven-item scale that inquired whether governmental regulations were perceived as fair, justified, and based on science and whether the government considered citizens’ needs and the interests of their country, etc. The analysis was done within the structural equation modeling framework. Scalar measurement invariance was successfully established between the studied countries, and a subsequent latent means comparison supported the hypothesis that German respondents would report higher legitimacy of the governmental antipandemic regulations than respondents from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Additionally, as expected, the participants from the new German Länder (former East Germany) also manifested a consistent tendency to view governmental regulations as less legitimate than their Western fellow citizens. The results are discussed in terms of normative factors (i.e., the qualities of the authority which adopted the antipandemic measures, the qualities of the procedure through which these measures were adopted, and the qualities of the measures themselves), psycho-socio-cultural factors (e.g., postcommunist syndrome), and the influence of demographic variables.

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Section: The Legitimacy Of Government Measuresmentioning

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Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Lacko,

Horák,

Klicperová-Baker

et al. 2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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“… 8 In the case of the latter, prioritising transparency and the rationale for decision making (including evidence, ie, used in decision making) can prove effective when communicated with empathy. 9 Postpandemic protocols should anticipate disagreement to emerge at many levels, for example, due to the contestation of available data and/or expertise 10 11 ; the legitimacy of decision making 12–14 and competing values, 6 15 16 especially in areas that can cut across a range of policy areas and disciplinary boundaries.…”

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Digital public health leadership in the global fight for health security

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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need to prioritise mature digital health and data governance at both national and supranational levels to guarantee future health security. The Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health was a call to action to create the infrastructure needed to share effective digital health evidence-based practices and high-quality, real-time data locally and globally to provide actionable information to more health systems and countries. The declaration proposed nine key recommendations for data and digital health that need to be adopted by the global health community to address future pandemics and health threats. Here, we expand on each recommendation and provide an evidence-based roadmap for their implementation. This policy document serves as a resource and toolkit that all stakeholders in digital health and disaster preparedness can follow to develop digital infrastructure and protocols in readiness for future health threats through robust digital public health leadership.

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“…Adicionalmente, la importancia de Twitter en el análisis del discurso público también se explica en el hecho de que gran parte de la producción científica sobre comunicación pública de la última década se ha focalizado en el análisis de esta plataforma (Campos-Domínguez, 2017). Además, en cuanto a la pandemia, el análisis científico de temas relacionados con la desinformación, el debate público sobre las vacunas o sobre las restricciones impuestas por los gobiernos, entre otros temas, han utilizado Twitter como centro de estudio (Griffith et al, 2021;Nguyen y Catalan-Matamoros, 2022;Rivas-de-Roca et al, 2021;Belanger y Lavenex, 2021). Estos estudios ofrecen aprendizajes valiosos para el entendimiento de las narrativas que se construyeron en redes sociales durante la pandemia, especialmente durante las primeras olas y en las primeras campañas de vacunación.…”

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Vacunación y escepticismo: un análisis sobre la desconfianza en la campaña de vacunación del COVID 19 en Ecuador en Twitter

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2023

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La aprobación de las vacunas fue un tema que causó polémica en ciertas partes de la población a nivel global durante la pandemia del COVID 19. En ese contexto, este trabajo investigó la desconfianza ciudadana en la campaña de vacunación en Ecuador. Para ello, se tomó Twitter como herramienta para el análisis, y se revisaron todos tuits publicados en esta plataforma durante el Plan de Vacunación 9/100 relacionados con este tema. Tras filtrar los comentarios positivos de los negativos, se utilizó el análisis de contenido para identificar los argumentos más utilizados para rechazar o desconfiar de las vacunas o la campaña de vacunación. A continuación, se implementó el análisis del discurso para estudiar con más profundidad los comentarios negativos de los usuarios y hallar posibles ideologías subyacentes. Los resultados revelaron que los comentarios de rechazo o que reflejaron dudas en el Plan 9/100 representaron el 15 por ciento del total y que la mayoría de estos tuits se dirigieron a criticar la gestión administrativa de la campaña de vacunación. Aunque se detectaron creencias y actitudes en común entre los usuarios que publicaron tuits negativos, no se encontró una ideología estructurada subyacente a esta tendencia. Los hallazgos de este trabajo refuerzan la idea de la importancia de monitorear conversaciones ciudadanas en redes sociales en el contexto de temas salud pública, para así poder identificar las principales fuentes argumentativas de desinformación y escepticismo y preparar mecanismos de respuesta claros y oportunos.

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Communicating Mobility Restrictions During the COVID‐19 Crisis on Twitter: The Legitimacy Challenge

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Cited by 7 publications

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Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Digital public health leadership in the global fight for health security

Vacunación y escepticismo: un análisis sobre la desconfianza en la campaña de vacunación del COVID 19 en Ecuador en Twitter

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