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Finding home: digital storytelling in health communication

Thursday, May 10, 2018 - 10:28

Digital storytelling is an art-based research method that involves the creation of a short video (3-5 minutes) integrating multimedia materials like photos, people’s voices, drawings, and music. It has a great potential to elucidate complex narratives in a compelling manner, increase participant engagement, and enhance the meaning of research findings.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Human Rights, Social Media
Tags: 
public health communication, Social media

Role of Social Media in Science-in-Society issues

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 17:32

Social media and ASSET

Nowadays, social media is an increasingly common and integral part of all people's lives. In ASSET theory and practice about social media have been explored extensively over the four years of work (2014-2017). It has been done by studying to what extent epidemic or pandemic preparedness and response are covered by contents shared on the main social network platforms. Specific studies have been developed such as analysing the social accounts and profiles of relevant pharmaceutical companies. 

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Social Media, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Social media, Vaccine

The ASSET final event

Monday, October 30, 2017 - 11:00

ASSET is close to its conclusion and a concluding conference will be held in Rome, on October 30-31, to present all the main outcomes of the project. This event will take place at the hotel NH Roma Leonardo Da Vinci and will be targeted to a selected audience of EU stakeholders and policy makers. Its aim is to enhance advocacy and intersectoral approach in a multisetting scenario applied to fostering preparedness and response toward Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), like epidemics and even pandemics.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Event, science-in-society, pandemic, Preparedness, research

The ASSET final event

Monday, October 23, 2017 - 16:26

ASSET is close to its conclusion and a concluding conference will be held in Rome, on October 30-31, to present all the main outcomes of the project. This event will take place at the hotel NH Roma Leonardo Da Vinci and will be targeted to a selected audience of EU stakeholders and policy makers. Its aim is to enhance advocacy and intersectoral approach in a multisetting scenario applied to fostering preparedness and response toward Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), like epidemics and even pandemics.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Event, science-in-society, pandemic, Preparedness, research

The role of patients’ and consumers’ associations in facing misinformation online

October 16, 2017

The internet and social media era is both a great and a hard time to be an empowered patient or citizen. Every day everyone is overwhelmed by information, but also by misinformation. Discerning between the two is not so easy, according to Dennis Costello, Web Communications Senior Manager & RareConnect Leader at EURORDIS (Rare Diseases Europe). Best practices should be adopted by creators of contents and technical tools can further help in selecting them, but patients’ and consumers’ associations have a leading role in this, guiding the public so that they can make better decisions for themselves and their family.

Target: 
Citizens, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Video, communication, Best practices

Paper series 5 - Risk communication in time of an epidemic or pandemic

Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 14:35

David Xiang, Christos Kontos, Afroditi Veloudaki, Agoritsa Baka, Pania Karnaki, Athena Linos

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Media, Social Media
Tags: 
risk communication, Uncertainty, Social media
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The spreading of misinformation online

Del Vicario M, Bessi A, Zollo F, Petroni F, Scala A, Caldarelli G, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jan 19;113(3):554-9.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Social media, misinformation, rumor spreading, echo chambers

Pathos, logos and ethos in health communication

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 09:10

The debate on how to address the spread of incorrect information about vaccines and science in general, as never before, is affecting the main stakeholders in health and scientific communication.
Current vaccination campaigns aimed to address vaccine hesitancy do not work or do not work enough.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Media, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
public health communication, risk communication, communication strategies

Debunking in a world of tribes

Zollo F, Bessi A, Del Vicario M, Scala A, Caldarelli G, Shekhtman L, et al. PLoS One. 2017 Jul 24;12(7):e0181821.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Social media, misinformation spreading, communication strategies, Debunking campaigns, confirmation bias, echo chambers

Registrations are open for the ASSET final conference

Monday, August 28, 2017 - 08:56

ASSET is close to its conclusion and a concluding conference will be held in Rome, on October 30-31, to present all the main outcomes of the project. This event will take place at the hotel NH Roma Leonardo Da Vinci and will be targeted to a selected audience of EU stakeholders and policy makers. It is conceived as a mobilization and mutual learning event at local, national and international levels on Science in Society related issues in epidemics and pandemics.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Event, science-in-society, pandemic, Preparedness, research

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