Communication and misinformation : crisis events in the age of social media / edited by Kevin B. Wright.

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.