Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Associate Professor in Journalism at Allameh Tabataba’i University
2 Master's student in communication sciences at Allameh Tabataba’i University
3 Ph.D. student in communication sciences at Allameh Tabataba’i University
4 Master's student in public relations at Allameh Tabataba'i University
Abstract
In the initial stages of the beginning of the corona virus crisis and even later, experts and scientists were not able to answer all the questions that society expected. At the same time, the uncertainty and the need to receive information was very high, and this caused the creation of an information chat and allowed different sources of knowledge to enter this field. The crisis cannot be overcome without benefiting from communications. Crisis communication is the power and narrative of the resilience of social man against threats and wings leading to liberation from collective life. Corona virus and the effects of its spread created the biggest health and life crisis for mankind. Based on this, the main goal of the current research is to identify the hidden themes of fake news published during the Corona outbreak. The phenomenon called "infodemic" has been investigated in the telegram channel of the Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency (IRNA) with a qualitative method and thematic analysis approach. Researchers have coded and analyzed data with this method. With this approach, hidden meanings in the data set were identified and introduced. finally, it was found that the six main themes of the research, including the announcement of the end of the corona epidemic, the prevalence of traditional medicine, the side effects of vaccination, the infection of celebrities and famous people with the corona virus, the foods that destroy the corona virus and the economic issues of the corona virus are of interest to this media. Also, "Corona prevention, infection and end" was identified and analyzed as the main overarching theme.
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In the initial stages of the beginning of the corona virus crisis and even later, experts and scientists were not able to answer all the questions that society expected. At the same time, the uncertainty and the need to receive information was very high, and this caused the creation of an information chat and allowed different sources of knowledge to enter this field. The crisis cannot be overcome without benefiting from communications. Crisis communication is the power and narrative of the resilience of social man against threats and wings leading to liberation from collective life. Corona virus and the effects of its spread created the biggest health and life crisis for mankind. Based on this, the main goal of the current research is to identify the hidden themes of fake news published during the Corona outbreak. The phenomenon called "infodemic" has been investigated in the telegram channel of the Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency (IRNA) with a qualitative method and thematic analysis approach. Researchers have coded and analyzed data with this method. With this approach, hidden meanings in the data set were identified and introduced. finally, it was found that the six main themes of the research, including the announcement of the end of the corona epidemic, the prevalence of traditional medicine, the side effects of vaccination, the infection of celebrities and famous people with the corona virus, the foods that destroy the corona virus and the economic issues of the corona virus are of interest to this media. Also, "Corona prevention, infection and end" was identified and analyzed as the main overarching theme.
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In the initial stages of the beginning of the corona virus crisis and even later, experts and scientists were not able to answer all the questions that society expected. At the same time, the uncertainty and the need to receive information was very high, and this caused the creation of an information chat and allowed different sources of knowledge to enter this field. The crisis cannot be overcome without benefiting from communications. Crisis communication is the power and narrative of the resilience of social man against threats and wings leading to liberation from collective life. Corona virus and the effects of its spread created the biggest health and life crisis for mankind. Based on this, the main goal of the current research is to identify the hidden themes of fake news published during the Corona outbreak. The phenomenon called "infodemic" has been investigated in the telegram channel of the Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency (IRNA) with a qualitative method and thematic analysis approach. Researchers have coded and analyzed data with this method. With this approach, hidden meanings in the data set were identified and introduced. finally, it was found that the six main themes of the research, including the announcement of the end of the corona epidemic, the prevalence of traditional medicine, the side effects of vaccination, the infection of celebrities and famous people with the corona virus, the foods that destroy the corona virus and the economic issues of the corona virus are of interest to this media. Also, "Corona prevention, infection and end" was identified and analyzed as the main overarching theme.
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