Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era
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Data de Publicação: | 2021 |
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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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Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth EraActor-network-theoryCOVID-19Discourse analysisPost-truth; RiskScience communicationUncertaintyThe 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.2021info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10316/100820http://hdl.handle.net/10316/100820https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.646066eng2297-900XFernandes, Adalbertoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2022-07-13T21:05:52Zoai:estudogeral.uc.pt:10316/100820Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:18:07.712645Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era |
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Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era |
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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 |
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Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era |
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Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era |
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Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era |
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Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era |
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Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era |
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Fernandes, Adalberto |
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Fernandes, Adalberto |
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Fernandes, Adalberto |
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Actor-network-theory COVID-19 Discourse analysis Post-truth; Risk Science communication Uncertainty |
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Actor-network-theory COVID-19 Discourse analysis Post-truth; Risk Science communication Uncertainty |
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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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