{"id":3018,"date":"2021-01-04T22:41:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T06:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2021-01-04T22:41:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T06:41:59","slug":"communicating-scientific-uncertainty-in-an-age-of-covid-19-an-investigation-into-the-use-of-preprints-by-digital-media-outlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/04\/communicating-scientific-uncertainty-in-an-age-of-covid-19-an-investigation-into-the-use-of-preprints-by-digital-media-outlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Communicating Scientific Uncertainty in an Age of COVID-19: An Investigation into the Use of Preprints by Digital Media Outlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of framing devices used by digital media outlets to emphasize the scientific uncertainty of COVID-19-related pre-prints (e.g., mentioning that the study was a pre-print, unreviewed, preliminary) in the early stages of the pandemic found that news outlets frequently did not identify the research they cited as pre-print research, and instead identified it as simply \u201cresearch.\u201d Over 40% of stories analyzed did not frame the pre-print as uncertain; of those that did, most included a single framing device\u2014typically stating that the research had not been peer reviewed. Over 90% of stories analyzed included a hyperlink to at least one pre-print.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Fleerackers et al. (Jan 3, 2021). Communicating Scientific Uncertainty in an Age of COVID-19: An Investigation into the Use of Preprints by Digital Media Outlets. Health Communication. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10410236.2020.1864892\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10410236.2020.1864892<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of framing devices used by digital media outlets to emphasize the scientific uncertainty of COVID-19-related pre-prints (e.g., mentioning that the study was a pre-print, unreviewed, preliminary) in the early stages of the pandemic found that news outlets frequently did not identify the research they cited as pre-print research, and instead identified it as&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/04\/communicating-scientific-uncertainty-in-an-age-of-covid-19-an-investigation-into-the-use-of-preprints-by-digital-media-outlets\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[110],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health-communications","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}