# COVID-19: Forms and drivers of social media users' engagement behavior toward a global crisis

J Azer, L Blasco-Arcas, P Harrigan - Journal of business research, 2021 - Elsevier
Social media constitutes a pervasive communication media that has had a prominent role
during global crises. While crisis communication research suggests that individuals use …

Experience pandemic fatigue? Social media use may play a role: Testing a model of pandemic fatigue development from a social media perspective

M Chen, W Yu, X Cao - Health Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Recently, the World Health Organization noted the increasing signs of
pandemic fatigue around the world and repeatedly warned the public to continue to stay …

The Importance of Persuasion Strategies in Doctors' Social Media Messages

SB ASSEGAFF, A LILIWERI… - International Journal of …, 2023 - journalkeberlanjutan.com
This study investigates how doctors employ persuasion strategies (Ethos, logos, and pathos)
on Instagram to influence the health behaviors of their followers during the COVID-19 …

Create or Transmit? The Dichotomy of Content Contribution Behavior on Social Media during Social Quarantine

RR Chen, K Chen, CX Ou… - The Dichotomy of Content …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Societal crises and pandemics are changing the world significantly. During these shocks,
social quarantine as an emergency action can inhibit traditional offline social activities and …

It's Not All Doom and Gloom:: Protection Motivation Theory Factors That Reverse the Negative Impact of Social Media Use on Compliance and Protective Health …

R Cozma, N Muturi - … Mass Communication Journal, 2021 - swecjmc-ojs-txstate.tdl.org
A nationally representative online survey was conducted in the United States in July 2020 to
examine the role of social media use in knowledge about COVID-19, compliance with public …

[HTML][HTML] Social media use, eHealth literacy, disease knowledge, and preventive behaviors in the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional study on Chinese netizens

X Li, Q Liu - Journal of medical Internet research, 2020 - jmir.org
Background Since its outbreak in January 2020, COVID-19 has quickly spread worldwide
and has become a global pandemic. Social media platforms have been recognized as …

Coping strategies initiated by COVID-19-related stress, individuals' motives for social media use, and perceived stress reduction

M Bae - Internet Research, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This study examined whether individuals' coping strategies and their motivations
for social media use act as mediators between actual COVID-19-related stress and the …

What makes a COVID-message effective on social media?: The investigation of language variation, bandwagon heuristic cues and modality on the persuasive effects …

JM Koh - 2021 - dr.ntu.edu.sg
With the outbreak of Covid'19, there is a sharp increase in healthcare advertisements aimed
to effectively disseminate pandemic-related information. Many of them are distributed …

A Cross-Country Analysis of the Combined Influence of Social Media Use and Perceived Social Media Networks on Pandemic Communicative Responses

CH Lai, T Tang - Health Communication, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines how social media (SM) use is related to human responses to emerging
infectious disease risks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic via an online survey …

Differential effects of traditional and social media use on COVID-19 preventive behaviors: The mediating role of risk and efficacy perceptions

W Ren, X Zhu, Y Hu - Journal of Health Psychology, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The study explored how traditional and social media use produced various cognitive
responses toward COVID-19, including perceived severity, susceptibility, and efficacy, and …