Philip Morris International's Smoke-Free Future (SFF) campaign pledged to replace conventional cigarettes with smoke-free alternatives, promoting smokers' health and combating smoking-related misinformation. We interviewed 25 college students assess their perceived credibility of SFF messages interest in products. Nearly half couldn't identify a tobacco company as the message source, speculating it came from public entities. Many overlooked profit motives, instead seeing genuinely supportive...

Background: Many countries show low COVID-19 vaccination rates despite high levels of readiness and delivery vaccines. The public’s misperceptions, hesitancy, negative emotions toward vaccines are psychological factors discouraging vaccination. At the individual level, studies have revealed perceptual/behavioral outcomes information exposure via social media where misinformation vaccine fear flood. Objective: This study extends research context to global level investigates discourse on its...

Anti-intellectualism (resentment, hostility, and mistrust of experts) has become a growing concern during the pandemic. Using topic modeling supervised machine learning, this study examines elements sources anti-Fauci tweets as case anti-intellectual discourse on social media. Based theoretical framework science-related populism, we identified three discursive in tweets: people-scientist antagonism, delegitimizing motivation scientists, knowledge scientists. Delegitimizing scientists...

Analyzing data from a survey of U.S. adults (N = 509), our study examines the role partisan media in (a) shaping people’s perceptions Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, (b) producing an echo-chamber effect, influencing users to believe that other people have opinion similar their own, and (c) creating polarized public environment, where hold more extreme perspectives on BLM. Left-wing consumption was positively correlated with favorable BLM, while right-wing had negative correlation,...

We investigate social media discourses on the relationship between cancer and COVID-19 vaccines focusing key textual topics, themes reflecting voice of community, authors who contribute to discourse, valence toward vaccines. analyzed 6,427 tweets about vaccines, posted from when were approved in U.S. (December 2020) February 2022. mixed quantitative text mining, manual coding statistical analysis, inductive qualitative thematic analysis. Nearly 16% by a community member mentioned refusal or...

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Many countries show low COVID-19 vaccination rates despite high levels of readiness and delivery vaccines. The public’s misperceptions, hesitancy, negative emotions towards vaccines are psychological factors discouraging vaccination. At the individual level, studies have revealed perceptual/behavioral outcomes information exposure via social media where misinformation vaccine fear flood. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This study extends research context to...

Background: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the marketing of IQOS tobacco heating system as a modified risk product (MRTP) in July 2020, permitting its 'reduced exposure' marketing. This decision is accompanied by much controversy among global health community. We provide preliminary analysis Twitter conversations regarding MRTP authorization identifying authors, valence towards policy decision, source cited link, focused topic. Methods: analyzed 548 tweets mentioning...

Prescription drug misuse and opioid overdose have become one of the most serious health crises in US system. In this study, we examined Last Week Tonight as hosted by John Oliver order to explore topics, sentiments, reactions referring online comments on YouTube. Using an unsupervised machine learning approach, analyzed 33,741 user generated taken from three selected episodes published between 2016 2021. Our results revealed 13 topics: politicization crisis, side effects use, seeking help,...

This study analyzed 1432 questions asked in 19 surveys (N = 43,014) on COVID-19 vaccines between January 2020 and August 2022 using dimensions including (1) information sources about vaccine, (2) the access, effectiveness, side effects of (3) vaccine hesitancy (i.e. false perception, skepticism, refusal), (4) motivations to get perform routine activities, convenience, incentives, influences, travel requirement), (5) perceptions caused refusal, (6) intentions vaccinated. Our results show that...

Populism remains a vaguely defined concept having porous boundaries though widely mentioned as terminology in the literature.It is often associated with democracy; however, theorists mainly depend on specific political context to describe populism (Mouzelis, 1985;Taguieff, 1995).This carries such features distasteful involvement of highly emotional but simple rhetoric and opportunistic policies aimed seek votes only (Mudde, 2004), most importantly dominant leader (Taggart, 2000).The scenario...

Abstract Using data from a national survey in South Korea, this study offers micro-level evidence for the two-culture model of public understanding science, which posits that shift an industrializing to post-industrial society is accompanied by transition culture idealized science skepticism. We investigate whether older Koreans, who spent much their lives during intense industrialization country, hold more positive perceptions about than younger generations, grew up mostly era. As...

China`s Belt and Road Initiative is a massive infrastructural project that Ethiopia encompassed. Yet, in Ethiopia, public opinion over the subject has never been homogenous as there are both apparent faiths initiative would positively contribute to Ethiopia’s economy, suspicions it merely veiled ambition accelerate its expansion global economy politics, intensifying concerns China will not be any different from former colonial powers for African nations. Besides mainstream media coverage,...

Objectives: Emerging evidence indicates that young adults who use e-cigarettes can withhold greater exposure to COVID-19 risk. We examine how e-cigarette users perceive related threat of and benefit cessation as compared traditional ones, applying the health belief model. investigate changes such perceptions during pandemic their associations with past attempt future intent quit use. Methods: collected responses from US (aged 18-25) have used in month by conducting 2 waves online surveys...

Building on the global trend of celebrity activism and concept capital, this study qualitatively examines Twitter posts Bollywood celebrities. The aim analysis was to identify varying discourses about 2020–21 Indian farmers’ protest as celebrities are considered significant players discourse building social movements. thematic showed that pro- anti-farmers’ used rhetorical explanatory support build their discourses. Some even engaged in celebrity-shaming name-calling urge fellow or stop...

This study uses the theory of planned behavior to predict individuals’ intentions quit social media. Attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control significantly predicted media, accounting for 68 percent variance among participants (N = 525) representing US census data. Political partisanship belief in misinformation also slightly increased predictability TPB, suggesting that they can be used as moderators or antecedents norms future.

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the most crucial trade route in contemporary South Asia which connects Pakistan's Gwadar port located Balochistan province and China's Kashgar, shortening Middle Eastern oil for China.It happens to be a core project of Belt Road Initiative (BRI) embodies Chinese alternative globalization encompasses commercial cultural routes infrastructure participating countries.Although BRI mainly involves state institutions nations, historic nature cultural,...