scholarly journals Examining Public Communication About Kidney Cancer on Twitter

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mina S. Sedrak ◽  
Meghan M. Salgia ◽  
Cristiane Decat Bergerot ◽  
Kemi Ashing-Giwa ◽  
Brendan N. Cotta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Kidney Cancer ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Content Domain ◽  
Key Words Kidney ◽  
Breast And Prostate Cancer ◽  
Common Content

PURPOSE Several studies have described the content of Twitter conversations about lung, breast, and prostate cancer, but little is known about how the public uses Twitter to discuss kidney cancer. We sought to characterize the content of conversations on Twitter about kidney cancer and the participants engaged in these dialogues. METHODS This qualitative study analyzed the content of 2,097 tweets that contained the key words kidney cancer from August 1 to 22, 2017. Tweets were categorized by content domain of conversations related to kidney cancer on Twitter and user types of participants in these dialogues. RESULTS Among the 2,097 kidney cancer–related tweets analyzed, 858 (41.4%) were authored by individuals, 865 (41.2%) by organizations, and 364 (17.4%) by media sites. The most common content discussed was support (29.3%) and treatment (26.5%). Among the 2,097 tweets, 825 were unique tweets, and 1,272 were retweets. The most common unique tweets were about clinical trials (23.9%), most often authored by media sites. The most common retweets were about treatment (38.5%), most often authored by organizations. CONCLUSION Twitter dialogues about kidney cancer are most commonly related to support and treatment. Our findings provide insights that may inform the design of new interventions that use social media as a tool to improve communication of kidney cancer information. Additional efforts are needed to improve our understanding of the value and direct utility of social media in improving kidney cancer care.

Understanding the Role of Online Media Platforms in Airport Capital Projects and Community Outreach

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812199347
Author(s):  
Max Z. Li ◽  
Megan S. Ryerson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Capital Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Project Phases ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
Common Content

Community outreach and engagement efforts are critical to an airport’s role as an ever-evolving transportation infrastructure and regional economic driver. As online social media platforms continue to grow in both popularity and influence, a new engagement channel between airports and the public is emerging. However, the motivations behind and effectiveness of these social media channels remain unclear. In this work, we address this knowledge gap by better understanding the advantages, impact, and best practices of this newly emerging engagement channel available to airports. Focusing specifically on airport YouTube channels, we first document quantitative viewership metrics, and examine common content characteristics within airport YouTube videos. We then conduct interviews and site visits with relevant airport stakeholders to identify the motivations and workflow behind these videos. Finally, we facilitate sample focus groups designed to survey public perceptions of the effectiveness and value of these videos. From our four project phases, to maximize content effectiveness and community engagement potential, we synthesize the following framework of action items, recommendations, and best practices: (C) Consistency and community; (O) Organizational structure; (M) Momentum; (B) Branding and buy-in; (A) Activity; (T) Two-way engagement; (E) Enthusiasm; and (D) Depth, or as a convenient initialism, our COMBATED framework.

The challenges of public sector communication in the face of the pandemic crisis: professional roles, competencies and platformization1

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Gea Ducci ◽  
Alessandro Lovari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
The Face

The pandemic crisis has led to a renew centrality of public sector communica-tion in a hybrid and convergent media ecosystems aiming at (re)building relation-ships based on trust between institutions and citizens. This contribution reflects on the strengths and fragility of the Italian public communication in the face of the pandemic, considering regulatory processes and paths of professionalization. It focuses also on the challenges of social media use in public sector, suggesting a critical approach towards the platformization of the public sector communication activities. The last part of this manuscript presents the different articles that com-pose the special issue.

scholarly journals Expert communication on Twitter: Comparing economists and scientists’ social networks, topics and communicative styles

2020 ◽  
pp. 096366252095725
Author(s):  
Marina Della Guista ◽  
Sylvia Jaworska ◽  
Danica Vukadinović Greetham
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multimedia Contents ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Experts increasingly use social media to communicate with the wider public, prompted by the need to demonstrate impact and public engagement. While previous research on the use of social media by experts focused on single topics and performed sentiment analysis, we propose to extend the scope by investigating experts’ networks, topics and communicative styles. We perform social and semantic network as well language analysis of top tweeting scientists and economists. We find that economists tweet less, mention fewer people and have fewer Twitter conversations with members of the public than scientists. Scientists use a more informal and involved style and engage wider audiences through multimedia contents, while economists use more jargon, and tend to favour traditional written media. The results point to differences in experts’ communicative practices online, and we propose that disciplinary ways of ‘talking’ may pose obstacles to an effective public communication of expert knowledge.

Meinungsbildung in der Netzöffentlichkeit

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Current State ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
State Of Research

This volume offers insights into current research on the reception and effects of the digital revolution in public communication in the field of communication science. The contributions it contains deal with questions about the use of news on Facebook, the articulation of opinions on the public Net and the influencing of opinions on social media (e.g. by influencers). They document the current state of research and knowledge in this field, answer current open questions on an empirical basis and provide suggestions for future research. With contributions by Patrick Weber, Frank Mangold, Miriam Steiner, Melanie Magin, Birgit Stark, Pascal Jürgens, Anna Sophie Kümpel, Larissa Leonhard, Veronika Karnowski, Claudia Wilhelm, Ines Engelmann, Stefan Geiß, German Neubaum, Manuel Cargnino, Davina Berthelé, Priska Breves, Helene Schüler, Benedikt Spangardt, Kerstin Thummes

Communicating earthquake information to the public in Italy: ten years of INGVterremoti

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
alessandro amato ◽  
Emanuele Casarotti ◽  
Valentino Lauciani ◽  
Carlo Meletti ◽  
Concetta Nostro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Earthquake Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
First Choice ◽  
Civil Trials ◽  
Media Channels

<p>Communicating earthquake scientific information is very important in countries like Italy, where seismic sequences are frequent, seismic risk is high, and people’s perception of risk is strongly affected by fear.</p><p>After the 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila (central Italy), which claimed 309 casualties and triggered a long lasting dispute among scientists, journalists, citizens, including a suite of criminal and civil trials involving scientists and civil protection officers, the scientific and risk communication in Italy (not only on earthquakes) was facing a crossroad. The first choice (feared at that time by many reporters) was to minimize or even elude public communication, in order to avoid misunderstandings and involvement in litigations. The second possibility was to increase the efforts in public communication, getting closer to citizens. INGV definitely opted for the second choice. In the past ten years the INGVterremoti platform has augmented and differentiated its activities on the web and social media, substantially increasing the number of involved people, which amounts today to several hundreds thousand. The platform consists of a coordinated suite of social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and a blog (on wordpress), where we publish both updating during earthquake sequences and scientific topics. Our end users are mostly citizens, but also media and authorities. Our tweets on earthquake activity are often in the first pages of web and TV news magazines.</p><p>In September 2018, we started publishing automatic locations/magnitudes for earthquakes in Italy with magnitude equal to or larger than 3, after a careful analysis of the thresholds and of the best format to use, in order to warrant message understandability and to minimize false or incorrect information. This issue is very critical both to provide the best and fastest information to citizens, and to increase people’s trust in scientific information and institutions. These are often blamed by citizens and by media when contradictory information is offered to the public. We will present an analysis of the first 18 months of this testing phase, which has been widely appreciated by the public.</p>

Risk, Efficacy, and Seeking of General, Breast, and Prostate Cancer Information

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Nan ◽  
Jill Underhill ◽  
Hua Jiang ◽  
Hongmei Shen ◽  
Beth Kuch
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
Breast And Prostate Cancer

Public communication and the role of social media in enhancing democratic innovation: the case of the City of Bologna

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Giulia Allegrini ◽  
Stefano Spillare
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Substantial Form ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
The City

Social media represents for public administration an important area to experi-ment forms of democratic innovation, however this potentiality is often unex-plored. This article, with a focus on the case of the city of Bologna aims to explore 1) whether and how public communication practices enhanced in local participa-tory processes can support a substantial form of participation; 2) which roles so-cial media specifically play in enhancing a participatory environment; 3) which kind of dynamics of interaction emerge between public administration and citizens and the challenges which need to be addressed by a public communication orient-ed to the public engagement.

scholarly journals THE EXISTENCE OF THE VOLUNTEERS OF THE INDONESIAN HUMANITARIAN COMMITTEE IN DELIVERING INFORMATION ON PREVENTION AND HANDLING COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-116
Author(s):  
Andre Avila ◽  
Rita Herlina
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

The existence of volunteers helping the government convey appropriate information to the public either through social media or plunging directly into the field of conducting public communication is the background of this research, with the theme of the Existence of the Volunteers of the Indonesian Humanitarian Committee in Delivering Information on Prevention and Handling Covid-19. This study aims to describe the motivation of volunteers, volunteer activities in the field and forms of volunteer messages on social media. The methodology of this research is descriptive qualitative. Data collection techniques are by interview and document analysis. The results of this study indicate the existence of Indonesian Humanitarian Committee volunteers as the frontline in conveying information on prevention and handling of Covid-19 to the people of South Tangerang, motivated by caring for others as an effort to remind the importance of prevention and handling of Covid 19, in volunteer activities in the field, namely distributing flyers about prevention and handling of Covid-19 through food and food distribution programs, while the form of messages on social media about prevention and handling of Covid-19 is mostly done through Facebook, Instagram, website media, with various messages in the form of articles, photos, status, and messages the other.

Establishing New Best Response Standards through Positive Communication: A Look at Best Response Criteria 20 Years Later

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 1088-1108
Author(s):  
LT David Vihonski ◽  
Kristy Plourde ◽  
LT Donald Porter ◽  
LCDR Ryan Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Response Criteria ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Incident Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Communication ◽  
Emergency Responders ◽  
Best Response

ABSTRACT When Kuchin and Hereth published the best response criteria at the 1999 International Oil Spill Conference, there was finally a concrete measure of success for response to oil spills. This criterion has been used since then by leaders of spill response operations to assist them in ensuring that they are maximizing the effectiveness of the response to an oil spill. One of the trends noted in their work was that not all of the criteria were the same when measured against each other. In particular, Kuchin and Hereth highlighted that Incident Commanders (ICs)/emergency responders should have focused more heavily on public communication and stakeholder service and support. This still holds true today with the increased demand for 24/7 updates in the news and on social media. When the ICs/emergency responders do not devote a significant amount of time communicating with the public and stakeholders through any and all available means, they are often not successful in a response. This paper addresses some of the overall changes to the response environment that affect Kuchin and Hereth’s best response criteria, discusses the changes in the measures of success, and provides recommendations for ICs/emergency responders to consider during an incident response. The goal is to assist ICs/emergency responders in being successful during their incident responses in the future through setting a new best response standard.

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