Three contextual dimensions of information on social media: lessons learned from the COVID-19 infodemic
| Autor: | Marin, Lavinia |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Technology
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) media_common.quotation_subject Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Internet privacy Social Sciences 050801 communication & media studies Library and Information Sciences Context sensitive design 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 0508 media and communications Social Sciences - Other Topics Social media 030212 general & internal medicine Disinformation Information Science & Library Science media_common Ethics Original Paper Infodemic Science & Technology Online emotions business.industry 05 social sciences Arts & Humanities Computer Science Applications Philosophy Designed interaction Normative FAKE NEWS business Psychology Covid-19 Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Ethics and Information Technology, 23 Ethics and Information Technology |
| ISSN: | 1388-1957 |
| Popis: | The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied on social media by an explosion of information disorders such as inaccurate, misleading and irrelevant information. Countermeasures adopted thus far to curb these informational disorders have had limited success because these did not account for the diversity of informational contexts on social media, focusing instead almost exclusively on curating the factual content of user's posts. However, content-focused measures do not address the primary causes of the infodemic itself, namely the user's need to post content as a way of making sense of the situation and for gathering reactions of consensus from friends. This paper describes three types of informational context-weak epistemic, strong normative and strong emotional-which have not yet been taken into account by current measures to curb down the informational disorders. I show how these contexts are related to the infodemic and I propose measures for dealing with them for future global crisis situations. ispartof: ETHICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY vol:23 issue:SUPPL 1 ispartof: location:Netherlands status: published |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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