Communicating science in the COVID-19 news in the UK during Omicron waves: exploring representations of nature of science with epistemic network analysis

Abstract News media plays a vital role in communicating scientific evidence to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. Such communication is important for convincing the public to follow social distancing guidelines and to respond to health campaigns such as vaccination programmes. However, newspap...

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Main Authors: Kason Ka Ching Cheung, Ho-Yin Chan, Sibel Erduran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2023-06-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01771-2