Responsible Use of Pop Culture and Communication in the Face of Ebola Virus

Brown, Brandon; Nasiruddin, Melissa; Dao, Alexander; Halabi, Monique

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003890

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“…First, "the image of a panicked mob makes exciting footage in disaster movies, but it obscures a broad range of possible public reactions" (29). Second, the public perception of how epidemic diseases behave is substantially influenced by the media and popular culture (2,4,6,30); parts of this perception are sometimes adopted as scientific facts (31,32). Similar issues have recently been brought to our attention regarding the widespread and incorrect diagnostic use of images of persons with a disease that is wrongly assumed to be plague (33,34) and media perpetuation of several recent misguided anxieties over how the Ebola virus is spread (35,36).…”

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Social Responses to Epidemics Depicted by Cinema

Han¹,

Curtis²

2020

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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Social Responses to Epidemics Depicted by Cinema

Han¹,

Curtis²

2020

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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“…First, regardless of whether we conceive of linking public health workers and heroic attributes as a 'good' or bad', 'positive' or 'negative' aspect, it has been shown that films -and visual culture more generally -affect how we think and feel: stories are how we make sense of the world. Accordingly, it has been suggested that by using emotive narratives or relatable characters, films can become effective mediums for delivering messages or reinforcing values -and in the public health context, have implications for how viewers might think about how to act and behave (Wald 2008;Ostherr 2005;Kendal 2021;Han and Curtis 2020a;Brown et al 2015;Nasiruddin et al 2013;Vidal 2018;also, in comics: McNicol 2017). These have been described in psychology as 'symbolic sense-making processes' (Wagner, Kronberger, and Seifert 2002).…”

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Epidemics, public health workers, and ‘heroism’ in cinematic perspective

Han¹,

Curtis²

2021

Visual Studies

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“…Japanese Thai Indonesian English [18]. The K-pop cultural connection helped facilitate the circulation of MERS-related information in Thailand, where there was also one confirmed MERS case imported from the Middle East [16].…”

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Twitter and Middle East respiratory syndrome, South Korea, 2015: A multi-lingual study

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Zeng

Chan

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Infection, Disease & Health

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Background: Different linguo-cultural communities might react to an outbreak differently. The 2015 South Korean MERS outbreak presented an opportunity for us to compare tweets responding to the same outbreak in different languages. Methods: We obtained a 1% sample through Twitter streaming application programming interface from June 1 to 30, 2015. We identified MERS-related tweets with keywords such as 'MERS' and its translation in five different languages. We translated non-English tweets into English for statistical comparison. Results: We retrieved MERS-related Twitter data in five languages: Korean (N Z 21,823), English (N Z 4024), Thai (N Z 2084), Japanese (N Z 1334) and Indonesian (N Z 1256). Categories of randomly selected user profiles (p < 0.001) and the top 30 sources of retweets (p < 0.001) differed between the five language corpora. Among the randomly selected user profiles, K-pop fans ranged from 4% in the Korean corpus to 70% in the Thai corpus; media ranged from 0% (Thai) to 14% (Indonesian); political advocates ranged from 0% (Thai) to 19% (Japanese); medical professionals ranged from 0% (Thai) to 7% (English). Among the top 30 sources of retweets for each corpus (150 in total), 70 (46.7%) were media; 29 (19.3%) were K-pop fans; 7 (4.7%) were political; 9 (6%) were medical; and 35 (23.3%) were categorized as 'Others'. We performed chi-square feature selection and identified the top 20 keywords that were most unique to each corpus. Conclusion: Different linguo-cultural communities exist on Twitter and they might react to the same outbreak differently. Understanding audiences' unique Twitter cultures will allow public health agencies to develop appropriate Twitter health communication strategies. ª 2017 Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. HighlightsTweets about the 2015 South Korean MERS outbreak in 5 languages were compared. User profiles and keywords used were different across the 5 data sets. Health communication on Twitter should be culture and language specific.

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Responsible Use of Pop Culture and Communication in the Face of Ebola Virus

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

Social Responses to Epidemics Depicted by Cinema

Social Responses to Epidemics Depicted by Cinema

Epidemics, public health workers, and ‘heroism’ in cinematic perspective

Twitter and Middle East respiratory syndrome, South Korea, 2015: A multi-lingual study

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