Use of immunology in news and YouTube videos in the context of COVID-19: politicization and information bubbles DOI Open Access
Rachel George, Hannah Goodey, Maria Antonietta Russo

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Published: Sept. 28, 2023

Background. The COVID-19 pandemic propelled immunology into global news and social media, resulting in the potential for misinterpreting misusing complex scientific concepts.Objective. To study extent to which is discussed articles YouTube videos English Italian, if related concepts are used support specific political or ideological narratives context of COVID-19.Methods. In Italian we searched period 11/09/2019 11/09/2022 on YouTube, using software Mozdeh, mentioning one nine immunological concepts: antibody-dependent enhancement, anergy, cytokine storm, herd immunity, hygiene hypothesis, immunity debt, original antigenic sin, oxidative stress viral interference. We repeated this MediaCloud articles.Four samples 200 articles/videos were obtained from randomised data gathered analysed mentions concepts, stance vaccines, masks, lockdown distancing, signifiers.Results. Vaccine-negative information was higher than (8-fold English, 6-fold Italian) (4-fold news, 3-fold videos). also observed existence bubbles, where a negative towards intervention associated with other linked ideas. Some (immunity interference, anergy sin) anti-vaccine anti-NPI (non-pharmacological intervention) views. Videos mentioned politics more frequently those and, all media languages, anti-guidelines by factor 3 video 3-5 news.Conclusions. There evidence that some provide credibility bubbles supports concept “rabbit hole” effect, interest unconventional views/media leads ever extreme algorithmic recommendations.

Language: Английский

Communicating the Interdependence of Human, Animal, and Environmental Health on X (formerly Twitter): Insights from the One Health Approach DOI Creative Commons
Juan M. Requena‐Mullor, Enrica Garau, María D. López‐Rodríguez

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iScience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 28(1), P. 111606 - 111606

Published: Dec. 15, 2024

Language: Английский

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How does extreme weather impact the climate change discourse? Insights from the Twitter discussion on hurricanes DOI Creative Commons
Maddalena Torricelli, Max Falkenberg, Alessandro Galeazzi

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PLOS Climate, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 2(11), P. e0000277 - e0000277

Published: Nov. 14, 2023

The public understanding of climate change plays a critical role in translating science into action. In the discourse, impacts are often discussed context extreme weather events. Here, we analyse 65 million Twitter posts and 240 thousand news media articles related to 18 major hurricanes from 2010 2022 clarify how impact discussion around change. First, content show that is most prominent non hurricane-specific topic by relation hurricanes. Second, perform comparative analysis between reliable questionable outlets, finding unreliable outlets frequently refer climate-related conspiracies preferentially use term “global warming” over “climate change”. Finally, using geolocated data, accounts regions affected discuss at significantly higher rate than unaffected areas, with references increasing by, on average, 80% after impact, up 200% for largest Our findings demonstrate have key awareness

Language: Английский

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Use of immunology in news and YouTube videos in the context of COVID-19: politicization and information bubbles DOI Open Access
Rachel George, Hannah Goodey, Maria Antonietta Russo

et al.

Published: Sept. 28, 2023

Background. The COVID-19 pandemic propelled immunology into global news and social media, resulting in the potential for misinterpreting misusing complex scientific concepts.Objective. To study extent to which is discussed articles YouTube videos English Italian, if related concepts are used support specific political or ideological narratives context of COVID-19.Methods. In Italian we searched period 11/09/2019 11/09/2022 on YouTube, using software Mozdeh, mentioning one nine immunological concepts: antibody-dependent enhancement, anergy, cytokine storm, herd immunity, hygiene hypothesis, immunity debt, original antigenic sin, oxidative stress viral interference. We repeated this MediaCloud articles.Four samples 200 articles/videos were obtained from randomised data gathered analysed mentions concepts, stance vaccines, masks, lockdown distancing, signifiers.Results. Vaccine-negative information was higher than (8-fold English, 6-fold Italian) (4-fold news, 3-fold videos). also observed existence bubbles, where a negative towards intervention associated with other linked ideas. Some (immunity interference, anergy sin) anti-vaccine anti-NPI (non-pharmacological intervention) views. Videos mentioned politics more frequently those and, all media languages, anti-guidelines by factor 3 video 3-5 news.Conclusions. There evidence that some provide credibility bubbles supports concept “rabbit hole” effect, interest unconventional views/media leads ever extreme algorithmic recommendations.

Language: Английский

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