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Mapping obesity and diabetes’ representation on Twitter: the case of Italy
No full textOne of the main functions of public health is to monitor population health to identify health problems and priorities. Social media is increasingly being used to promote it. This study aims to investigate the field of diabetes and obesity and related tweets in the context of health and disease. The database extracted using academic APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) allowed the study to be run with content analysis and sentiment analysis techniques. These two analysis techniques are some of the tools of choice for the intended objectives. Content analysis facilitated the representation of a concept and a connection between two or more concepts, such as diabetes and obesity, on a purely text-based social platform such as Twitter. Sentiment analysis therefore allowed us to explore the emotional aspect related to the collected data related to the representation of such concepts. The results show a variety of representations connected to the two concepts and their correlations. From them it was possible to produce some clusters of elementary contexts and structure narrative and representational dimensions of the investigated concepts. The use of sentiment analysis and content analysis and cluster output to represent complex contexts such as diabetes and obesity for a social media community could increase knowledge of how virtual platforms impact fragile categories, facilitating concrete spillovers into public health strategies
Cross-Platform Political Communication By Target and the New Season of Politics in Italy
No full textThe victory of the Centre-Right in the Italian elections of September 2022
and of its coalition leader, Giorgia Meloni, the first woman to hold this office,
caused a stir, but was certainly not unanticipated. Above all, the success of Conte, former Prime Minister, who, at the head of the Five-Stars Movement
(M5S, anty-system party), reached an unexpected 15%. Some observers have
noted how the votes collected by the M5S are above all linked to the younger
component of the voters. The polls indeed show how each party is supported by
specific age groups or social categories. Surprising, for example, is the support
for the notoriously conservative Meloni from a target electorate likely to be
differently aligned (women and the adult population). It is therefore interesting
to understand whether the socio-demographic stratification that characterizes
each party is the result of a vote of opinion or not, and on which channels the
contents that had the capacity to reach and hit the differential targets of the
voters were conveyed most. The contribute aims to analyze the cross-platform
communication of the leading political candidates of the different competing
coalitions and parties in order to investigate whether they based their media
campaign on certain social categories or not and whether this effort had the
electoral feedback it deserved. Furthermore, a specific lunge will be devoted to
the candidates’ digital self-narration through social networks in order to show
how political communication, increasingly less disintermediated, makes the
direct message an element on which to build the whole tare of the electoral
campaign. Digital has set the pace of the campaign and no longer just to chase
it, showing that paradigm shift that well intercepts a digital native audience
yet still weak on those targets that for the most part have been in favor of the
Center-Right
Campagna elettorale e social media: scenari evolutivi e nuove differenze nella diffusione social del messaggio politico
Get PDFThe contemporary electoral campaign, that became increasingly permanent with the Net, suggests studying the field of political communication in terms of strategies for social me-dia activities. By a quantitative content analysis approach, in this paper it is proposed an examination of behaviors from political leaders of Lega, M5S and PD for Facebook and Twitter posts during the 2018 campaign for national elections. The expected results of this study aim to recap leadership and disintermediation values of each political actor analyzing the differences marked out from the multidimensional analysis in terms of selected issues, posting methods, and, more in general, communication strategies
Public communication of Italian scientific experts in the Anti-Covid 19 vaccination campaign
No full textThe Covid-19 pandemic was characterized by an unprecedented level of involvement of scientific experts in media coverage and public exposure to expert advice. Since Rae Goodell's seminal work on visible scientists (1977), the role of scientific experts in public communication has become increasingly central due to changes in the media landscape as well as in the dynamics between science and society (Maasen and Weingart, 2005; Cheng et al., 2008; Bucchi and Trench, 2014). In recent decades, social media hasprovided a meansfor experts to engage in public debate more actively and directly(Peters, 2014; Schiele et al, 2012). Discussions and controversies among scientists previously confined to specialized communication contexts have become, at least potentially, accessible to the general public (Gregory and Miller, 1998; Horst, 2013; Bauer et al., 2019). Since the beginning of the pandemic emergency, communication has played a key role in providing citizens with information and instructions on how to minimize the risk of infection. Information has been available through a variety of sources and media and, unlike in other countries (Metcalfe et al, 2020), in Italy a plurality of experts with different perspectives and expertise have emerged so much to open and shape a new crisis within the emergency on the public and institutional communication front3. Since the symbolic launch of Vaccine Day4, the role of scientific communication experts has become increasingly central in the agenda setting to effectively promote through the mass media interventions both in support of vaccination decisions (Casiday R., 2007) and in response to cases of misinformation ready to cause social alarm (Diekema S.D., 2012). Therefore, the project intends to analyze the peculiarities of the Italian casein terms of presence and ways of communicating experts during the first six months of the anti-Covid vaccination campaign, setting as a macro hypothesis at the basis of the work the existence of discordant communication strategies. The research questions from which the project moves are: -Which scientific experts became visible? How much and how did these experts communicate and what kind of strategy did they employ? How has health literacy been conveyed to citizens? To answer these questions, we intendto study the TV and print media representation of experts and self-presentation on the web. Specifically, we intend to analyze the content produced from 1/01/2021 to 30/06/2021 by monitoring with topics of interest and keywords related to "expert" and "vaccines" from:-TG and in-depth broadcasts of the main Italian generalist networks (Rai1, Rai2, Rai3, Rete4, Canale5, Italia1 and La7);-articles from the most popular daily newspapers (Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Il Sole24ore, La Stampa); -contents of the web and social pages of those who will emerge as the most visible expert. The data automatically extracted and collected in natively digital matrices (Rogers 2013; Caliandro 2018) thanks to the Volocom service5 will undergo text data mining operations with automatic text analysis and content analysis (Losito 2002; Bolasco 2014; Tipaldo 1014). Based on empirical evidence it will be possible to return results and interpretations useful to define the depth of expert communication and, to frame and overcome the problems that public communication has been facing.
3 Concern about misinformation linked to a deadly virus was expressed in the words of WHO Director Tedros Adhanom with "We're n ot just fighting an epidemic; we're fighting an infodemic".
4 Sym bolically held on December 27, 2020 in Italy and Europe.5 Platform of innovative tools that allows, thanks to the continuous acquisition of the flow of information, to monitor and select news from different channels
Audiovisual Languages for Health. Social Representations of Obesity on TikTok: A Case Study
No full textActors in the digital public sphere contribute to the public discourse on health and well-being by producing big data in various ways. User-generated health data are natural digital traces that social networks, wearable devices, health apps, and search engines can generate. The proliferation of user-generated content impacts the production, circulation, and consumption of health news, ensuring a vibrant public sphere on the topic. In today’s world, it is crucial to identify how new health-produced datasets can be used to assess Social Determinants of Health (SDH). SDH includes non-medical factors that influence health outcomes, such as the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age and what shapes the conditions of daily life. Health technologies hold great promise for developing digital health skills and improving health outcomes for patients with chronic diseases. Contemporary societies have undergone an epidemiological transition that has seen infectious-predominant diseases transform over the years into chronic-degenerative diseases.
Social media provides an open forum for communication between individuals, and content creators on TikTok are progressively changing the way audiovisual texts are produced and enjoyed, following a logic that tends towards media convergence and intermediality. This article aims to conceptualize how influencers providing public health information promote knowledge related to the obesity debate. Based on a sample of TikTok videos, we can gather insights and interpretations that help analyze the messages and themes conveyed by social media influencers. This analysis can help us to identify information and dimensions relevant to health advocacy and shed light on the underlying discourses and themes in their content
Sustainability and Sport: An Exploratory Study on Students of Rome’s Universities
Get PDFBackground: The importance of sport in advancing the roadmap for the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda was reaffirmed at the 7th Summit on Smart Cities and Sport (Lausanne, 26–28 October 2020), where it was emphasized that developing a culture of sustainability among younger generations is crucial. Given this scenario, the present study focuses on two main research questions: “Is there a diffusion of an environmentally oriented culture among university students?” and “Is there a relationship between sports’ world and environmentally oriented culture?” (2) Methods: To establish the empirical framework (279 questionnaires received), we used web-based survey techniques with a Computer-Assisted Web Interviewing (CAWI) procedure. (3) Results: The analysis results show that the sample considers environmental sustainability as a part of a more comprehensive understanding of sustainability, which reflects a sense of fear for uncertainty in the future. The second finding suggests that sport does not play a significant role in shaping awareness. (4) Conclusions: The cultural and generational background must be considered for better understanding of the research results, especially in Italy where it appears that sustainability is not considered a priority
Book review. COVID-19 in Italy Social Behavior and Governmental Policies, by Lucia Velotti, Gabriella Punziano, Felice Addeo
No full textThe book, edited by Lucia Velotti, Gabriella Punziano and Felice Addeo illustrates and examines people's perception of risk, their willingness to trust the sources and channels of information available to them and their attitudes towards protective behaviors by analyzing different aspects of the Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
Among the main premises for reviewing this highly stimulating volume there are the location and timing issues. The centrality of Italy, the first patient-nation in the Western world to face the pandemic and its crisis with the delicate management between the transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Book review. COVID-19 in Italy Social Behavior and Governmental Policies, by Lucia Velotti, Gabriella Punziano, Felice Addeo, Routledge, London 2022
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