Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era

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Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Adalberto
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/100820
https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.646066
Resumo: The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge for science communication in terms of addressing the question of uncertainty and how it translates into risk. This task has been aggravated by the complexity of the pandemic and the current post-truth environment. The article suggests that there is a need to analyze the practices of correcting risk information that is uncertain, but not necessarily false, made by online news media about COVID-19. This is a point of analysis where the uncertainty and risk linked to science, the pandemic, and the post-truth condition meet. The qualitative discursive analysis yielded three important results: (1) uncertainty can be fought by increasing uncertainty; (2) a multiplication of facts or reasons may not be the most prominent strategy in practices of correction; and (3) the use of hyperlinks with additional information can increase uncertainty and risk.
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title Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era
spellingShingle Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era
Fernandes, Adalberto
Actor-network-theory
COVID-19
Discourse analysis
Post-truth; Risk
Science communication
Uncertainty
title_short Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era
title_full Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era
title_fullStr Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era
title_full_unstemmed Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era
title_sort Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era
author Fernandes, Adalberto
author_facet Fernandes, Adalberto
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Fernandes, Adalberto
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Actor-network-theory
COVID-19
Discourse analysis
Post-truth; Risk
Science communication
Uncertainty
topic Actor-network-theory
COVID-19
Discourse analysis
Post-truth; Risk
Science communication
Uncertainty
description The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge for science communication in terms of addressing the question of uncertainty and how it translates into risk. This task has been aggravated by the complexity of the pandemic and the current post-truth environment. The article suggests that there is a need to analyze the practices of correcting risk information that is uncertain, but not necessarily false, made by online news media about COVID-19. This is a point of analysis where the uncertainty and risk linked to science, the pandemic, and the post-truth condition meet. The qualitative discursive analysis yielded three important results: (1) uncertainty can be fought by increasing uncertainty; (2) a multiplication of facts or reasons may not be the most prominent strategy in practices of correction; and (3) the use of hyperlinks with additional information can increase uncertainty and risk.
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