新冠疫情與數字媒體

Communicating/Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic on Digital Media

魏然(Ran WEI)

《傳播與社會學刊》 63期 (2023/01) Pp. v-viii

https://doi.org/10.30180/CS.202301_(63).0001

並列摘要

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned into a global public health crisis since its outbreak was reported in late 2019. The pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of everything-people are increasingly dependent on digital media to stay informed, to manage their daily lives under lockdowns, and to take actions to prevent the spread of the disease. The fight to control the pandemic through digitalization was complicated by a tsunami of infodemic (a massive spread of misleading and factually incorrect information about COVID-19-WHO) on popular social media platforms. A number of pressing questions arise: What is the role of digital media in communicating/ miscommunicating the COVID-19 pandemic? What is the diffusion pattern of the information concerning COVID-19 online and offline, on digital and traditional media? What impacts does infodemic have on people's information acquisition, risk perceptions and attitudes towards vaccination? The seven articles in the special issue addressed these questions from different perspectives; they provide timely, diverse and theoretical insights into people's digitalized life under the pandemic.