The communication aspects of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Western Africa – do we need to counter one, two, or many epidemics?
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The communication aspects of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Western Africa -do we need to counter one, two, or many epidemics?
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Digital society frames, alters, and produces knowledge in a complex way, and individuals need skills to read these continuously changing landscapes critically and navigate them safely.
“This means that digital society frames, alters, and produces knowledge in a complex way, and the individuals today need skills to read these continuously changing landscapes critically and navigate them safely (1,2,19,20).”
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The “Treating all epidemics” section describes a changing online information environment in which accurate information, misinformation, and rumors circulate, and it emphasizes contextual knowledge and critical journalism. The paper focuses on communication during Ebola outbreaks; it does not make the broader claim that digital society frames and produces knowledge or specifically say that individuals need skills to navigate it safely. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIn digital society, knowledge is organized in dynamic tentative online infrastructures and made available to users through different search tools and engines and their operative algorithms.
“In the digital society, knowledge is organized in dynamic tentative online infrastructures and made available to users through different search tools and engines and their operative algorithms.”
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The sections “Information spread during disease outbreak” and “Treating all epidemics” discuss how information and rumors circulate through online and social media. Searches for the claim’s wording and for search engines and algorithms found no passage addressing how knowledge is organized or made available through those tools. (LLM, conf=0.72)
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- Authors
- Allgaier, J., & Svalastog, A. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Klagenfurt (AT)
- Østfold University of Applied Sciences (NO)
- Venue
- Croatian Medical Journal
- Publisher
- Croatian Medical Journals
- Published
- 2015-10
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 496-499
- ISSN
- 0353-9504 (ISSN-L)
- 1332-8166
- PMC
- PMC4655935
- OpenAlex
- W2259634228
- Cited by
- 84
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Croatian Medical Journal (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway)) (acceptedVersion)
- NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Social Sciences › Communication › Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Social Sciences › Communication › Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Keywords
- Ebola virus disease, epidemic communication, outbreak communication, epidemic control, public health communication
- MeSH terms
- Africa, Western, Disease Outbreaks, Humans, Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola, Health Communication
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