Analysis of the Communication Mode of Internet Rumors: Taking Top Ten Online Rumors about COVID-19 Epidemic in China in April as Examples

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10.2991/assehr.k.210519.157How to use a DOI?

Keywords

COVID-19, online rumors, communication, mass psychology, solution

Abstract

At the beginning of 2020, the emergence of COVID-19 had a huge impact all over the world, followed by a large number of rumors about the epidemic, and caused panic among the people and society. This article focuses on the analysis of ten typical Internet rumors about COVID-19 epidemic in China in April, and explores the spreaders, media, content, channels, audiences and effects of online rumors under the framework of the 5W model research theory. In this way, this study will explore the communication mode of online rumors and the psychology of the masses in the post-epidemic era, and proposes reasonable suggestions for governance of online rumors from the audience, social media, and government levels.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Chutian WU
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - Analysis of the Communication Mode of Internet Rumors: Taking Top Ten Online Rumors about COVID-19 Epidemic in China in April as Examples
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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