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Public engagement and trust building on social media

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 16:02

This editorial introduces the new release of ASSET paper series.

Social media, mobile technology and social networks constitute an extremely rich and dynamic information ecosystem. With a world population of more than seven billion people, almost half of them have an internet connection, while the active social media users are about 2.8 billion. Huge numbers, which clearly shows how deep these instruments are rooted into our society. It is not a surprise, then, that social media are also increasingly present in disaster and crisis response efforts. Their growing presence in these scenarios represent an issue, but also an opportunity.

Target: 
Citizens, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Social media, CDC, risk communication, engagement

Paper series 4 - The Social Networks in Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response

Monday, July 17, 2017 - 15:43

Michele Bellone, Veronika Dimitrova, Anna Kurchatova, Antoaneta Minkova, Teodora Georgieva, Emilia Naseva, Mira Kojouharova, Debora Serra

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Social Media
Tags: 
Social media
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Third ASSET Summer School: a fact, lots of news

Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 12:08

As reported in the ASSET Strategic plan, the three Summer Schools on Science in Society related issues in Pandemics (2015, 2016, 2017) pose the main challenge of the collaborative project overall that is dealing with the intersectoral approach required by the management of Public Health Emergencies of International Concern (PHEIC), like epidemics and pandemics.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Summer School, Vaccine, science-in-society, science and society, Social media, Vaccine hesitancy, risk communication

Beyond the expert

Monday, May 29, 2017 - 11:45

Some things just do not want to die. In public health, anti-vaccination movements keep sizzling debates, just as they did in the XIX century. At the same time,  the “deficit model” of science communication – the myth that the “public” is just ignorant and that it would support science, if spoon-fed information from the ivory tower – still haunts the relationship between health, science and the community, despite having been repeatedly debunked. The two zombies are more related than one could believe. Vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccination movements grow in the cracks between trust and knowledge, and these are the fault lines that communication should heal – or rip apart, if it fails.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Media, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, hesitant parents, communication, public health communication, science and society, science-in-society, Science communication

Who is tweeting about vaccines?

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 08:43

During the period between October and December 2016, we used our algorithm to find out the most relevant Twitter influencers about vaccines. We performed a multilevel study to categorize the accounts and to identify the most relevant hashtags.

We analysed 869 accounts and categorized 373 of them:

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Social Media, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Social media, science-in-society, Vaccine, Twitter

Fake news and hoaxes: are you looking for information or just confirmation?

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 15:20

In the wake of events such as Brexit, Trump’s election and the rumours about Russian hackers interfering with political events in USA and Europe, post-truth has been chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as the Word of the Year 2016.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers
Topic: 
Media, Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
disinformation, Social media, science and society, Science communication

10 Best Practices for Social Media Helpful guidelines for news organizations

2010-11 ASNE Ethics and Values Committee - 10 Best Practices for Social Media Helpful guidelines for news organizations.

Topic: 
Social Media
Tags: 
Best practices, Social media, guidelines

Summer School on Science in Society related issues in Pandemics – Third edition

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 09:00

The third edition of the ASSET Summer School will be held at the National Centre for Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion (CNaPPS) of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in Rome from May 30 to June 1, 2017. Pandemics (or more in general public health emergencies of international concern, PHEIC) as well as other major infectious disease outbreaks management do necessarily require a multidisciplinary approach. The ASSET Summer School focuses on

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Gender, Human Rights, Media, Policy, Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Summer School

Can we make science communication more scientific?

Monday, March 6, 2017 - 15:07

Effective science communication, especially when engaging with genuine two-way discussions with audiences, is quite a complex issue, and far from simple to study. Much of what works and what doesn’t is highly dependent on contingent factors, from what specifically is being communicated, to the social dynamics around the issues, to the political context in which the engagement occurs. This makes deriving general insights and lessons that can be applied across the board particularly challenging.

Target: 
Citizens, Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
Topic: 
Media, Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
communication, science-in-society, science

Flu Effect on the web: an Italian analysis on influenza and vaccination

Thursday, December 29, 2016 - 09:01

The internet deals a lot with flu, but mostly talks about care and little about prevention. This is the result of a study made by Voices from the Blogs, a spin-off of the University of Milan, on the web-sentiment on influenza and vaccination in Italy.

Target: 
Citizens, School and Education
Topic: 
Prevention, Social Media, Vaccination
Tags: 
flu, influenza, Vaccine, Vaccine safety, Social media

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