This review of literature from multiple disciplines argues that the Internet is useful both in
communicating support, and in the rapid reestablishment of socially supportive peer …

Objetivo Caracterizar la infodemia asociada a la pandemia de COVID-19 y analizar, en el
caso de España, el consumo de información, la confianza en las fuentes, el papel de los …

The World Health Organization (2011) has emphasized communication as one of the
biggest challenges and places risk communication among the essential competencies …

This study explores how audiences seek information from social and traditional media, and
what factors affect media use during crises. Using the social-mediated crisis communication …

Social support is defined as the perceived or actual receipt of social resources (eg, tangible,
emotional) and is one of the most reliable predictors of disease morbidity and mortality. In …

This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and
hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that …

The authors explore patterns of smartphone use during the first weeks following the
outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in Belgium, focusing on citizens' use of …

In his seminal work The Effects of Mass Communication, Klapper (1960) reviewed decades
of research on mass communication to conclude that fi rst, the mass media appear to have …

This paper reports the results of a controlled field experiment in which voice communication
was introduced into an existing online community (online gaming guilds within the popular …

The COVID‐19 pandemic has witnessed the proliferation of a plethora of (mis) information
on various media platforms and inconsistent crisis instructions from different sources. People …