Using a survey taken from March 10 – March 16, social scientists tried to untangle the complicated connection between feelings of vulnerability and behavior change in response to the coronavirus.
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In an age of social media and the propensity for misinformation to spread like wildfire, organizations and governments should consider social media strategies in pandemic response planning.
Remote working is about to surge as companies around the world advise employees to stay away in response to the coronavirus outbreak. But nothing beats the effectiveness of face-to-face interactions.
Strategic risk communication is needed to curb fearmongering and racist sentiments on social media related to COVID-19
What’s the best way to tackle coronavirus myths and misinformation if they come up in everyday conversation?
From crude drawing to advice and support, the scrawlings on toilet walls reveal differing communication patterns between the sexes
The writings of Venezuelan scholar Antonio Pasquali contain warnings about how we communicate today.
African countries are among the lowest internet speed but it has the most expensive communication and internet costs.
When news stories include a catchy hashtag, readers perceived the news topic to be less socially important and more partisan.
Communications networks are a crucial part of any disaster planning. Resilient communications systems determine how effective emergency responses can be.
The human scream – a response we share with our primate relatives – is more nuanced than you might think.
Interruptions are inevitable – but how they happen matters.
Will there ever be an electronic equivalent of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ or Émile Zola’s ‘J’Accuse!’?
Social media make it easier to push information out quickly during disasters, but also create challenges for public information officers, who have to judge which reports are credible enough to share.
Whether it frustrates or motivates your opponent can depend on the situation.
Linguists have a lot of largely untested theories. Borrowing a tool from ecology, researchers built a model that didn’t look for one worldwide explanation.
Specialists offer a series of tips on how parents of children with autism spectrum disorder can help their children communicate with more people and in different places.
We haven’t heard anything from alien civilisations, but perhaps they’ve heard us.
For many people, the gentle blinks of fireflies flashing are a favorite part of summer evenings. An entomologist explains some lightning bug basics.
Instead of worrying that emoji is replacing competent language use, we can celebrate that emoji are creating a richer form of online communication that returns the features of gesture to language.
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Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
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Adjunct professor, professional communication, University of Canberra
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Professor of Linguistics
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Ellis N. Brandt Professor of Public Relations, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor, Emerging Media Studies, Boston University
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Science Communication Researcher, Stellenbosch University
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Associate professor, Murdoch University
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Professor, Computer Networking and Telecommunications, University of Salford
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Professor in Ageing and Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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MBA Director & Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Anatomy & Physiology Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
