03812cam a22004098i 4500 23802064 CSPC 20261015164006.0 240729s2024 nju 001 0 eng 2024031447 9781394184941 (paperback) 23802064 DLC eng rda DLC DLC CSPC pcc HD49.3 .C655 2025 658.45 C737 23/eng/20240729 Communication and misinformation : crisis events in the age of social media / edited by Kevin B. Wright. 2410 Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell, 2025. xiii, 220 pages ; 26 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Communicating science in times of crisis Includes bibliographical references and index. Characteristics of crisis misinformation messages on social media -- Social media networks, social support, and misinformation during crisis situations -- Emerging media, emotions, and misperceptions in health crisis -- Persuasion, resistance, and online misinformation during crisis -- Emergent conceptual frameworks of disruption, character assassination, and visual disinformation in crisis communication research -- Politicization of health issues: misinformation and social media -- Understanding and mitigating vaccine misinformation on social media -- The scope and effects of vaccine misinformation on social media -- Misinformation identification and correction -- Message strategies for misinformation correction: current research, challenges, and opportunities -- Understanding the role of attention to misinformation and correction mechanisms on social media with eye-tracking technology: implications for climate change crisis communication -- Inoculation approaches to science misinformation correction -- Big data approaches to identifying crisis misinformation. "With crisis events, risk and health communication play increasingly critical roles, particularly in examining the dissemination and impact of misinformation on various segments of the population. Both traditional broadcasting media and online news organizations often focus on crisis events since they generate interest, and tailor their content to audience segments based on political beliefs. This may lead audiences to be exposed to relatively limited or politically-biased information about the causes of crisis events or the best policies/course of action to mitigate risk to individuals. As we saw with COVID-19, during times of uncertainty and crisis, the public may increase their reliance on social media to obtain information from social media platforms and online social network members they trust. At the same time, user-generated content on social media continues to proliferate at a rapid rate, allowing audience members to take on the role of "news" producer. Such content, including misinformation, is rapidly shared, reshared, and commented upon by others online as the (mis)information disseminates across multiple social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok"-- Provided by publisher. Communication in crisis management. Misinformation. Social media. Wright, Kevin B., editor. Online version: Communication and misinformation Hoboken : Wiley, 2024 9781394184958 (DLC) 2024031448 7 rip orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 23 658.45 C737 CIR 2025 0 0 0 ddc 0 0 CSPC CSPC CIR 2026-10-15 0 CIR 658.45 C737 2025 032661 2026-10-15 16:40:26 1-1 2026-10-15 BK 33764 33764