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The role of the information environment during the first COVID-19 wave in Germany

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: The role of the information environment during the first COVID-19 wave in Germany
المؤلفون: Stier, Sebastian, Weiß, Bernd, Hartmann, Timo, Flöck, Fabian, Breuer, Johannes, Schaurer, Ines, Kummerow, Mirjan
المصدر: Political Research Exchange, 4, 1, 1-19
بيانات النشر: GBR, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
مصطلحات موضوعية: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen, Social sciences, sociology, anthropology, News media, journalism, publishing, COVID-19, information exposure, infodemic, public broadcasting, ZA5664: GESIS Panel - Extended Edition (Data file Version 37.0.0), ZA5665: GESIS Panel - Standard Edition (Data file Version 37.0.0), ZA5667: GESIS Panel Special Survey on the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak in Germany (Data file Version 1.1.0), Interactive, electronic Media, Health Policy, Impact Research, Recipient Research, Wirkungsforschung, Rezipientenforschung, interaktive, elektronische Medien, Gesundheitspolitik, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Wahrnehmung, Epidemie, Public Health, Information, öffentlich-rechtliche Einrichtung, Verhalten, Facebook, Regressionsanalyse, Rundfunk, Befragung, Informationsquelle, Einstellung, perception, regression analysis, epidemic, Federal Republic of Germany, information, public institution, facebook, broadcasting, behavior, attitude, public health, survey, source of information, 10800, 11000
الوصف: The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by intense debates about the role of the information environment. On the one hand, citizens learn from public information campaigns and news coverage and supposedly adjust their behaviours accordingly; on the other, there are fears of widespread misinformation and its detrimental effects. Analyzing the posts of the most important German information providers published via Facebook, this paper first identifies a uniform salience of subtopics related to COVID-19 across different types of information sources that generally emphasized the threats to public health. Next, using a large survey conducted with German residents during the first COVID-19 wave in March 2020 we investigate how information exposure relates to perceptions, attitudes and behaviours concerning the pandemic. Regression analyses show that getting COVID-19-related information from a multitude of sources has a statistically significant and positive relationship with public health outcomes. These findings are consistent even across the ideological left/right spectrum and party preferences. These consistent correlational results demonstrate that during the first wave of COVID-19, a uniform information environment went hand in hand with a cautious public and widely accepted mitigation measures. Nonetheless, we discuss these findings against the backdrop of an increased politicization of public-health measures during later COVID-19 waves.
Original Identifier: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-86949-5
نوع الوثيقة: journal article
Zeitschriftenartikel
تدمد: 2474-736X
DOI: 10.1080/2474736X.2022.2135451
URL الوصول: https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/86949
حقوق: Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0
Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0
رقم الأكسشن: edsgso.86949
قاعدة البيانات: SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository
الوصف
تدمد:2474736X
DOI:10.1080/2474736X.2022.2135451