Fake News Content Shaping the COVID-19 Pandemic Fear: Virus Anxiety, Emotional Contagion, and Responsible Media Reporting

Authors :: Elizabeth Dobson-Lohman
Ana Mădălina Potcovaru
Source :: Analysis and Metaphysics. 19:94
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Addleton Academic Publishers, 2020.
Abstract: Employing recent research results covering fake news content shaping the COVID-19 pandemic fear, and building our argument by drawing on data collected from Gallup, GlobalWebIndex, Knight Foundation, Ofcom, Pew Research Center, Public Knowledge, Statista, and University of Canberra, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding the relationship between virus anxiety, emotional contagion, and responsible media reporting Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the collected data

Subjects :: Philosophy
Argument
Pandemic
medicine
Knight
Anxiety
Emotional contagion
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Content (Freudian dream analysis)
Social psychology
Research center
Structural equation modeling

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