The Public Sphere in Emerging Infectious Disease Communication: Recipient or Active and Vocal Partner?

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 447-458

  Gesser Edelsburg, Anat ^a   Shir Raz, Yaffa ^a   Walter, Nathan ^a   Mordini, Emilio ^b   Dimitriou, Dimitris ^c   James, James J ^d   Green, Manfred S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Responsable Technologies   (France)

^c Zadig Scientific Communication Agency   (Italy)

^d National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

communication framework; emerging infectious disease; outbreak communication; public sphere; risk and crisis communication

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIUM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PANIC; SOCIAL MEDIA; TRENDS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; PANIC; PUBLIC SECTOR; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84937561733     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2015.31     Document Type: Article

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