The Text Characteristics and Governance of Internet Rumors in Sudden Major Public Health Events: A Case Study of the Rumors of COVID-19 Epidemic Refuted on the China Internet Joint Rumor Platform

PENG Liu; CHEN Hongfei

Journal of South China normal University (Social Science Edition) > 2021 > (2): 183-192.

PENG Liu, CHEN Hongfei. The Text Characteristics and Governance of Internet Rumors in Sudden Major Public Health Events: A Case Study of the Rumors of COVID-19 Epidemic Refuted on the China Internet Joint Rumor Platform[J]. Journal of South China normal University (Social Science Edition), 2021, (2): 183-192.

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The Text Characteristics and Governance of Internet Rumors in Sudden Major Public Health Events: A Case Study of the Rumors of COVID-19 Epidemic Refuted on the China Internet Joint Rumor Platform

PENG Liu¹,
CHEN Hongfei²

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Received Date: May 19, 2020
Available Online: April 06, 2021

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The COVID-19 epidemic-related rumors refuted by China Internet Joint Rumor Platform is selected as the research object and content analysis is adopted as the research method to analyze the text characteristics of these rumors on five dimensions: the subject of the rumors, the involved objects, the supporting evidence, the content claim, and the expression of the rumors. The study finds that rumors are good at using audience psychology, strengthening importance and proximity, showing the interweaving of authority and vague expression, mixing authenticity and falseness of information to cause difficulty in distinction, and creating a rational and cool-headed discourse. It is proposed that the government, experts, media and rumor-refuting organizations jointly build platforms for information release and rumor management and that the government, media and the public work together to reduce the time and space in which rumors breed and manage internet rumors in case of sudden major public health events.
- sudden major public health events,
- COVID-19 epidemic,
- internet rumor,
- rumor governance

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