Infectious diseases risk framing in Bulgarian media during early COVID-19 pandemic and the Ebola crisis
The present research confirms the hypothesis that public health emergencies increase the volume of infectious disease content on the news. The most frequently selected speaker categories should be briefed timely on outbreak developments in order to feed the media with accurate information.
Authors
- Zhivka Getsova
- Vanya Rangelova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9270-5996)
Institutions
- Medical University Plovdiv (BG)
- National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (BG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Heliyon
- Published
- 2024-08-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e36575
- Primary Topic
- Media Influence and Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Regional Development Fund