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Paratext and medical authority in the world of the internet
Published in Lester D. Friedman, Therese Jones, Routledge Handbook of Health and Media, 2022
There is widespread concern that social media has created “echo chambers” in which the view of a particular perspective bounces back and forth, thus amplifying its authority without ever truly engaging in dialogue with an opposing perspective. Opposing positions exist as separate texts with paratextual links that generally provide additional support for their own authority. This is equally true of both sides of this debate.
Trans Care Within and Against the Medical-Industrial Complex
Published in Joel Michael Reynolds, Christine Wieseler, The Disability Bioethics Reader, 2022
Sometimes, I can throw money at these requests. Sometimes, the most I can do is commiserate in frustrated empathy. Both of these responses are trans care praxis. We turn to social media for support that is simultaneously fiscal and affective, simultaneously practical (for advice about physicians, knowledge about underresearched side effects of exogenous hormones, about what clinics operate on an informed consent model, to seek legal advice) and ephemerally affirmative (to be told that we look hot, to bitch about quotidian transphobia). We hear so much about the purported echo chamber of social media, the way it has increasingly dissuaded political conversation across difference, the way it has contributed to intensified and polarized partisanship. This ostensible dilemma of the demos is structured by the assumption of a specifically dialectic ideal: that continual cultivation of political agonism leads to deliberation, compromise, and ultimately (at least provisional) consensus. Thus, the echo chamber effect makes nonpartisan consensus impossible, or, more hopefully, quite unlikely.
Accepting the Challenge
Published in Brian C. Miller, Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress, 2021
I began making adjustments that enhanced the rewards of doing psychotherapy. I conducted years of informal observation of psychotherapists who were “on fire” and those who were “burned out”. I noted the irony that the ones who burned out had never been on fire, and the ones who were on fire seemed to never burn out. I realized that the conceptual inaccuracies implicit in terms like “burnout” and “compassion fatigue” took us in wrong directions. I did formal research on “passionately committed” psychotherapists to understand the strategies that they employed to sustain over long careers. I immersed myself in the trauma treatment literature and other bodies of research literature outside of what I call the “burnout echo chamber”. This included literature as varied as occupational psychology, neurophysiology, cognitive behavioral therapy, and cognitive narratology.
Examining racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity in occupational science research: Perspectives of persons of color
Published in Journal of Occupational Science, 2023
Sachindri Wijekoon, Nedra Peter
While we are uncertain of the racial composition of people identifying as occupational scientists, based on this content analysis we maintain that researchers who are BIPOC remain a minority in the field. Research conducted by a homogenous group of individuals leads to academic echo chambers with a monolithic view of occupation. Although researchers need not come from the racial, ethnic, or cultural community under study to conduct research in, with, and about that community, they must engage in racial and cultural introspection in their research (Milner, 2007). White occupational scientists, for example, need to engage in reflection on how whiteness, as a mark of power, can affect the research relationship. We argue that all occupational scientists must exercise transparency of their critical racial and cultural consciousness within their publications.
Influence of social media on the public perspectives of the safety of COVID-19 vaccines
Published in Expert Review of Vaccines, 2022
Sai Krishna Gudi, Sophia M. George, Jimmy Jose
Social media is a platform which serves as one of the potential resources in capturing the public’s opinion, especially related to COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy, which will typically not be reported in the published studies [18]. Although most of the social media platforms have launched certain policies to control the misinformation circulating by the anti-vaccination groups, these policies are expected to make little impact in managing the exponential growth of vaccine-related misinformation [19]. Since social media users tend to receive content suggestions based upon their watch histories, it is difficult to pass on correct and legitimate information to public. This could certainly be called as a part of ‘echo-chamber effect’ of social media, where harmonious group of people amalgamate and develop tunnel vision. Also, in social media, information is often presented by non-experts with limited fact-checking abilities making misinformation to proliferate on social media platforms. It is unfortunate that the public is trusting misinformation of adverse effects related to COVID-19 vaccines, which might be because of the power of digital and social media [18]. There is an immense need and urgency in stopping such patterns. Thus, one of the essential drivers in vaccine uptake is the provision of trustworthy information by health care providers and thereby promoting facts related to COVID-19 vaccines.
Five Essential Elements Reappraisal
Published in Psychiatry, 2021
Arieh Y. Shalev, Anna C. Barbano
Massively affecting the struggle to make sense of a new reality – indeed of any reality - the widespread and rapid availability of web-based communication capabilities, merely beginning in 2007, has radically changed the way in which information is captured, created, and distributed and thus the ways in which worldviews are crafted and shared. Features of the digital communication revolution that strongly affect disaster communication include the rapid (i.e., instantaneous) recording and distribution of news, photographs and comments, the multiplicity of competing sources, and sources’ too-easy anonymity. These features make it hard to curate and verify information before indeed hits, indeed “floods” the public. As ever before, a vested interest of media distribution agents in the volume of attending receivers additionally fosters drama. Additionally, current instantaneous tracking of, and catering to, users’ preferences, has newly created information distribution silos and echo chambers, within which information accuracy and truthfulness carry little weight. Most importantly, a growing unaccountability of data and opinions’ sources, a distribution scalability, and a potential for manipulation have eroded the value of truth-telling, enabling quasi-acceptable information manipulation by major stakeholders and hackers alike and deliberate, extreme, baseless yet easily marketed misinterpretations of reality.