Coronavirus in Spain: Fear of ‘Official’ Fake News Boosts WhatsApp and Alternative Sources

Elías, Carlos; Catalán-Matamoros, Daniel

doi:10.17645/mac.v8i2.3217

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“…In the Netherlands, this trust is quite high, so it would be interesting to compare the Dutch Covid-19 debate with other (European) countries to track whether the course of these debates has affected the communicative dimensions of trust. Several researchers have already reported their first observations regarding how processes evolved in Spain (Elias & Catalan-Matamoros, 2020), Germany (Wormer, 2020), and Italy (Lovari, 2020). In addition, more comparative and empirical research is needed to investigate how various models of science communication contribute to long-term trust in science and policy-making (Schäfer, 2016).…”

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Social Media and Trust in Scientific Expertise: Debating the Covid-19 Pandemic in The Netherlands

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Alinejad

2020

Social Media + Society

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This article examines the role of social media dynamics in the public exchange of information between scientists (experts), government (policy-makers), mass media (journalists), and citizens (nonexperts) during the first 4 months after the Covid-19 outbreak in the Netherlands. Over the past decade, the institutional model of science communication, based on linear vectors of information flows between institutions, has gradually converted into a networked model where social media propel information flows circulating between all actors involved. The question driving our research is, “How are social media deployed to both undermine and enhance public trust in scientific expertise during a health crisis?” Analyzing the public debate during the period of the corona outbreak in the Netherlands, we investigate two stages: the emergency response phase and the “smart exit strategy” phase, discussing how scientific experts, policy-makers, journalists, and citizens appropriate social media logic to steer information and to control the debate. We conclude by outlining the potential risks and benefits of adopting social media dynamics in institutional contexts of science communication.

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Social Media and Trust in Scientific Expertise: Debating the Covid-19 Pandemic in The Netherlands

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2020

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“…This is particularly true if the news was shared on social media by a real-life friend [ 23 ]. The research of Elías and Catalan found that Spanish social media, such as WhatsApp, garnered more public trust than official media sources in COVID-19 pandemic reporting [ 24 ]. However, the increasing use of social media and the presentation of fragmented and false news on social media also lead to the public’s heightened awareness of the source.…”

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How Media Exposure, Media Trust, and Media Bias Perception Influence Public Evaluation of COVID-19 Pandemic in International Metropolises

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2022

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International metropolises are key sites of outbreaks of COVID-19 cases. Global public evaluation of the pandemic in international cities is affected by many factors. This study examines how media exposure affects this evaluation and how media trust and media bias perception moderate the relationship between them. Based on an online survey of the evaluation of 13 international cities’ pandemic performances by 1171 citizens from 11 countries, this study conducted a multi-level stepwise regression analysis and discovered that: (1) different forms of media affect global citizens’ perceptions of international metropolis COVID-19 pandemic performance differently; and the role of traditional paper media, including newspapers and magazines, is of little significance in comparison to electronic media. (2) Among electronic media, TV and broadcasting have the greatest impact, followed by social media and the Internet. (3) Media trust and media bias perception affect people’s evaluations of international urban pandemics, but our survey reveals that they only function with regard to social media.

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“…Los profesionales de la comunicación han tenido que hacer frente a la dificultad de valorar la situación (Dunwoody, 2020;Catalán-Matamoros, 2020) y, por lo tanto, la presencia de estudios y científicos sanitarios y del área biomédica ha sido importante. Está por ver, si la inclusión de científicos como fuentes autorizadas para valorar los acontecimientos se extiende en el tiempo y a distintos temas, o se trata de tendencia pasajera impuesta por la actual situación marcada por la incertidumbre y la proliferación de noticias falsas sobre la pandemia (Aguado & Bernaola, 2020;Elías, 2020). No obstante, estos datos no hacen más que confirmar la tendencia al alza de los temas médicos (Olvera-Lobo & López Pérez, 2015), una inclinación que algunos autores han descrito como la "medicalización" de las noticias científicas (Bauer, 2003), a pesar de que, en algunos casos estas presenten un componente social y se centren más en los beneficios personales y sociales de la investigación médica, que en las evidencias y características metodológicas de los avances realizados.…”

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¿Desaparecidas o escondidas? Análisis de la presencia de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades en las versiones online de The Guardian, El País y Público

Iraola

2021

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La histórica división y jerarquización de los distintos saberes se ha trasladado también al periodismo científico, que ha primado habitualmente ciertas áreas como la ciencia, la tecnología, la ingeniería o las matemáticas (CTIM). En este contexto, el objetivo de este estudio ha consistido en analizar la presencia de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades en los medios online, partiendo de la idea de que, dadas sus características, los cibermedios son herramientas idóneas para el periodismo científico y se prestan a incluir nuevos temas. Mediante el análisis de contenido, se han estudiado 208 informaciones sobre ciencia publicadas en El País (España), Público (Portugal) y The Guardian (Reino Unido). Los resultados indican que la presencia de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades es menor que la de las ciencias duras y asciende a una de cada tres informaciones analizadas, siendo la historia y la economía los temas más presentes. Los datos también indican que las noticias sobre las ciencias sociales y las humanidades tienden a utilizarse en mayor medida como fuentes de autoridad, con una presencia más dispersa en diferentes secciones del medio, frente a un mayor valor noticioso de los resultados de las investigaciones en las áreas de la ciencia, la tecnología, la ingeniería o las matemáticas, que tienden a aparecer con mayor frecuencia en la sección específica de cada medio. Por todo ello, el protagonismo de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades tiende a quedar diluido en las páginas de los medios de comunicación frente al resto de las disciplinas científicas.

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Coronavirus in Spain: Fear of ‘Official’ Fake News Boosts WhatsApp and Alternative Sources

Cited by 43 publications

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Social Media and Trust in Scientific Expertise: Debating the Covid-19 Pandemic in The Netherlands

Social Media and Trust in Scientific Expertise: Debating the Covid-19 Pandemic in The Netherlands

How Media Exposure, Media Trust, and Media Bias Perception Influence Public Evaluation of COVID-19 Pandemic in International Metropolises

¿Desaparecidas o escondidas? Análisis de la presencia de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades en las versiones online de The Guardian, El País y Público

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