| Autor: |
Myrick JG; Bellisario College of Communications, Penn State University., Willoughby JF; Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University., Francis DB; College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University., Noar SM; Hussman School of Journalism and Media, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Health communication [Health Commun] 2024 Dec; Vol. 39 (14), pp. 3577-3580. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 09. |
| DOI: |
10.1080/10410236.2024.2326261 |
| Abstrakt: |
When celebrities, political figures, influencers, or anyone with a large following publicly disclose an illness or die, the news becomes a de facto public health campaign. Until health communicators began studying such disclosures and the effects of the following waves of media coverage, however, it was not known to what extent these events impacted the public. A growing body of research has empirically documented these events and examined the factors that predict which types of audiences are most affected and why. Beyond motivating research opportunities, celebrity and influencer health disclosures or deaths can impact calls to hotlines, views on health-related websites, discussions of related topics on social media, behavioral changes relevant to the disclosure, increased news coverage of celebrity health research, integration of celebrity health narratives into strategic health campaigns, and even policy changes. We provide an overview of research conducted in this area and detail examples of the impact that celebrity health disclosures and studies about those disclosures have had on public discourse and public health. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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