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Research Letters

Communication related health crisis on social media: a case of COVID-19 outbreak

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Pages 2699-2705 | Received 25 Mar 2020, Accepted 31 Mar 2020, Published online: 14 Apr 2020
 

ABSTRACT

Social media is an important element in disaster and health crisis related communication. This research reviews 10,132 online comments related to COVID-19 through automated and manual content analysis. The key themes are identified and discussed including dynamically changed tourists’ risk perception, the effects of tourism enterprises’ service quality in crisis, the quarantine issues in public health, the authenticity of media coverage, and racial discrimination. This research contributes to suggestions and insights for future research in the field of epidemic-induced tourism crisis.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by Doctoral Fund of Sichuan University: [grant number skbsh2019-27].

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