Browsing Fakultet for samfunnsvitenskap (SAM) by Subject "Ebola"
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‘Add Twitter and Stir’: The Use of Twitter by Public Authorities in Norway and UK during the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak
(Observatorio (OBS*);Vol 12, No 2 (2018), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article examines how Norwegian and UK health authorities used social media, and especially Twitter, during the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak. The microblogging service has been regarded as a promising medium for crisis ... -
The Public Face of an Epidemic Risk: Personalization of an Ebola Outbreak in Nordic Media
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-11)This chapter explores how newspapers in Denmark and Norway both verbally and visually framed and personalized risk and crisis assessments and scenarios following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014. Our point of ...