Risk Communication and Social Media: COVID-19 Pandemic Planning and Response in Turkey

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2021-04-01

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Tosyalı, Hikmet
Tosyalı, Ahmet Furkan

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The new form of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. Then, the citizens were required to stay in their homes. In this process, social media has become the users’ window to the global village. With the prolongation of the isolation process, the use and importance of these platforms in communication, entertainment, socialization, and access to instant information about the pandemic have increased. People and institutions responsible for pandemic management have started to frequently benefit from social media platforms in risk communication activities to create public awareness about the disease and reinforce individuals’ beliefs to comply with the precautions. In this study, the person responsible for COVID-19 pandemic planning and response in Turkey, the Minister of Health’s, Twitter account was analyzed. The posts shared by the Minister of Health were subjected to content analysis, and the messages conveyed to the citizens were examined from the perspective of the health belief model.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/93591

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Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media

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H. Tosyalı and A. F. Tosyalı, Risk Communication and Social Media: COVID-19 Pandemic Planning and Response in Turkey. 2021.