How to communicate science to the public? Recommendations for effective written communication derived from a systematic review.

LM König, MS Altenmüller, J Fick, J Crusius… - Zeitschrift für …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Communicating research findings to the public in a clear but engaging manner is
challenging, yet central for maximizing their societal impact. This systematic review aimed to …

Metaphors we Lie by: our 'War'against COVID-19

M Benzi, M Novarese - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2022 - Springer
In this paper we discuss the influence of war as a metaphor in the context of the COVID-19
pandemic. After an introduction on the traditional analysis of the war metaphor, we address …

How do pandemic policies and communication shape intergroup outcomes? Initial findings from the COVID-19 pandemic and open questions for research and policy

C Stern, BC Ruisch - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Government policies can be productive tools for protecting citizens while simultaneously
forging more egalitarian societies. At the same time, history has shown that well-intentioned …

HIV/AIDS, SARS, and COVID-19: the trajectory of China's pandemic responses and its changing politics in a contested world

YR Zhou - Globalization and Health, 2024 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the contested politics of global health governance,
though we still don't know enough about the dynamics of domestic pandemic responses, or …

War of the words: How individuals respond to “fake news,”“misinformation,”“disinformation,” and “online falsehoods”

EC Tandoc, SK Seet - Journalism Practice, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
While some argue the term “fake news” has lost its meaning and should be discarded from
academic lexicon, others say the term has conceptual utility and one that the public …

The enemy within: The new war in medical education

TR Wyatt, V Jain, TL Ma - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction War and military metaphors have long been used in clinical medicine to
describe medicine's collective fight against disease. However, recently resistor trainees …

Fighting fire or fighting war: examining the framing effects of COVID-19 metaphors

R Tao, SJ Kim, L Lu, J Kang, D McLeod - Health communication, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Metaphorical language describing the COVID-19 pandemic as a war has been pervasive in
public discourse (eg “the pandemic is a war,”“the virus is an enemy,” and “the vaccine is a …

'Just Like Pandemic Prevention': The Semiotic Flow That Interweaves Multimodality, Metaphor, and Narrativity

MY Tseng - Metaphor and Symbol, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates how COVID-19 advice is creatively delivered in a one-minute video
produced by the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control in February 2022. It examines …

Attendance to notable terms promotes narrative frame analysis when students read multiple expository texts

A List, H Du - Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Narrative frames refer to the ways in which information in media is relayed, organized, and
contextualized, in order to provide learners with a structure and a frame of reference for new …

Elements of propaganda in the Western world's political, public health, and media narratives of 2020-2022

O Hirsch, C Rinner - The COVID-19 Pandemic, 2022 - books.google.com
In this chapter, we briefly review foundational contributions to the study of propaganda along
with examples of the use of propaganda techniques in medicine in the past. We then …