Voices in health communication — experts and expert-roles in the German news coverage of multi resistant pathogens

Wagner, Matthias; Gurr, Gwendolin; Siemon, Miriam

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“…One of the most often used strategies employed by traditional media sources for boosting the credibility of scientific and health-related information is that of referring to "experts", generally elite scientists/researchers and official spokespeople [19]. This trend was also perceptible in some reader comments that cited "experts" uncritically as agents with privileged knowledge that they place at the service of society.…”

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“…This fundamentally populist theme is developed through allusions to an establishment conspiracy and is given greater appeal by references to the class system. In the following comment, it can be observed how the vaccine is associated with the despised "middle class know-it-alls" (18) or "elites" (19) who have a contemptuous attitude to "independent researchers" while having a vested interest in the pharmaceutical establishment: (18) The middle class know-it-alls will be the first to roll up their sleeves. The ones with pension stock in Astrazeneca who look down their noses at anyone who does any independent research.…”

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Claiming Credibility in Online Comments: Popular Debate Surrounding the COVID-19 Vaccine

Breeze

2021

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At times of crisis, access to information takes on special importance, and in the Internet age of constant connectedness, this is truer than ever. Over the course of the pandemic, the huge public demand for constantly updated health information has been met with a massive response from official and scientific sources, as well as from the mainstream media. However, it has also generated a vast stream of user-generated digital postings. Such phenomena are often regarded as unhelpful or even dangerous since they unwittingly spread misinformation or make it easier for potentially harmful disinformation to circulate. However, little is known about the dynamics of such forums or how scientific issues are represented there. To address this knowledge gap, this chapter uses a corpus-assisted discourse approach to examine how “expert” knowledge and other sources of authority are represented and contested in a corpus of 10,880 reader comments responding to Mail Online articles on the development of the COVID-19 vaccine in February–July 2020. The results show how “expert” knowledge is increasingly problematized and politicized, while other strategies are used to claim authority. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of sociological theories, and some tentative solutions are proposed.

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Section: The Contested Nature Of "Expert" Knowledgementioning

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Claiming Credibility in Online Comments: Popular Debate Surrounding the COVID-19 Vaccine

Breeze

2021

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“…What makes good copy is that the events being reported are morally troubling or worse” [ 7 , p. 67]. These elements at the nexus between science communication and journalism studies are frequently noted in the literature [ 2 , 8 , 9 ].…”

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When scientific experts come to be media stars: An evolutionary model tested by analysing coronavirus media coverage across Italian newspapers

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The article aims to understand the process through which scientific experts gain and maintain remarkable media visibility. It has been analysed a corpus of 213,875 articles published by the eight most important Italian newspapers across the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. By exploring this process along the different phases of the management of the emergency in Italy, it was observed that some scientific experts achieve high media visibility—and sometimes notwithstanding their low academic reputation–thus becoming a sort of “media star”. Scientific literature about the relationship between experts and media is considerable, nonetheless we found a lack of theoretical models able to analyse under which conditions experts are able to enter and to remain prominent in the media sphere. A Media Experts Evolutionary Model (MEEM) is proposed in order to analyze the main conditions under which experts can acquire visibility and how they can “survive” in media arena. We proceeded by analysing visibility of experts during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and considering both their individual credentials previously acquired and the media environment processes of selection; MEEM acts hence as a combination of these two levels. Regarding the credentials, we accounted for i) institutional role/position, ii) previous media visibility, and iii) matches between scientific credentials and media competence. In our analysis, we collected evidence that high visibility in newspapers can be seen as evolutionary in the sense that some profiles—i.e. a particular configuration of credentials—are more adapt to specific media environments.

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“…Padahal dalam situasi yang sangat kompleks, seperti pandemi virus Corona, informasi merupakan alat untuk memberikan panduan dan kepastian bagi masyarakat. Temuan studi ini menunjukkan wartawan media online di Surabaya kesulitan untuk memediasi informasi meskipun telah menghadirkan sumber ahli atau aktor institusional untuk memberikan kepastian informasi (Mellado et al, 2021;Wagner, Gurr, & Siemon, 2019).…”

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Momen Kritis Jurnalisme: Problematika Media Sosial dan Disiplin Verifikasi di Jawa Timur

Maria Barbara Apul,

Krisdinanto

2024

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Pandemi Covid-19 memunculkan situasi yang disebut momen kritis jurnalisme yang bisadilihat dalam lima hal, yaitu titik balik, transformasi, titik awal, akselerasi, dan penghancuran. Padasaat yang sama, perkembangan media sosial yang menjadi kian esensial dalam proses produksiberita atau praktik jurnalistik. Kedua hal ini memunculkan problem yang kompleks dalam prosesproduksi berita, terutama terkait dengan disiplin verifikasi dan posisi media sosial. Penelitian inibertujuan untuk menguraikan pergulatan atau problematika yang dialami jurnalis Surabaya dalammemproduksi berita pada situasi pandemi. Metode yang digunakan adalah studi kasus, dan datadikumpulkan melalui wawancara mendalam, observasi, serta kajian literatur. Temuan penelitian inimerefleksikan terjadinya pergulatan yang dialami jurnalis dalam menjalankan praktik jurnalistikprofesionalnya pada masa pandemi. Momen kritis jurnalisme yang ditimbulkan oleh pandemisemakin mengakselerasi penggunaan media sosial dalam praktik jurnalistik hingga pada tarafketergantungan. Ketergantungan ini menjadi problem dalam jurnalisme mengingat informasimedia sosial yang dijadikan sumber berita merupakan hasil produksi warga yang tidak memilikikompetensi profesional dalam jurnalisme. Selain itu, pandemi juga mengakibatkan terjadinyamomen kritis jurnalisme yang bersifat titik balik (turning point) berupa pengabaian terhadap berbagaiaspek rutinitas di lapangan, atau proses reportase yang dilakukan jurnalis digital di lapanganterutama terkait disiplin verifikasi.

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Voices in health communication — experts and expert-roles in the German news coverage of multi resistant pathogens

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Claiming Credibility in Online Comments: Popular Debate Surrounding the COVID-19 Vaccine

Claiming Credibility in Online Comments: Popular Debate Surrounding the COVID-19 Vaccine

When scientific experts come to be media stars: An evolutionary model tested by analysing coronavirus media coverage across Italian newspapers

Momen Kritis Jurnalisme: Problematika Media Sosial dan Disiplin Verifikasi di Jawa Timur

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