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Pharmaceutical Communication in Spain during COVID-19
This research addresses the scientific production of pharmaceutical communication in Spain around the COVID-19 crisis, in which information overload, amplified by the digital media, evidenced the relevance of communication in the digital society.
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  • 07 Jul 2023
Topic Review
Innovation Ecosystem and Its Compositions in Network Perspective
Innovation ecosystems (IE) have gained significant attention due to the pivotal role of innovation in implementing sustainability. Network science serves as a crucial perspective for studying the innovation ecosystem, acting as a driving force for innovation development.
  • 901
  • 21 Feb 2024
Topic Review
Chief Digital Officer
Digital transformation is becoming more ingrained into everyday life and is a talking point among researchers today. It has been evident from the growing number of publications that have focused on various aspects of digital transformation in the last few years.
  • 804
  • 28 Apr 2022
Topic Review
Mesh Opportunistic Networks
Opportunistic networks allow for communication between nearby mobile devices through a radio connection, avoiding the need for cellular data coverage or a Wi-Fi connection. The limited spatial range of this type of communication can be overcome by using nodes in a mesh network. 
  • 785
  • 28 Jun 2023
Topic Review
Mobile Interactive Video Advertising
With the rapid spread of mobile devices and the Internet, mobile interactive video advertising has become an increasingly popular means of accessing advertising information for a large number of users. Interactive narratives are advertisements that require collaboration between consumers and designers to complete the story. Interactive narratives influence marketing impact and the advertising experience.
  • 780
  • 28 Sep 2023
Topic Review
Social Media Usage to Facilitate Knowledge Creation
Social media usage is a direct result of Internet connectivity and is gaining increased prominence in business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), and consumer-to-business (C2B) relationship building, which is allowing marketers to devise and implement digital marketing strategies that are perceived as enhancing a customer’s well-being. Through the process of utilizing social media (SM) to share information with consumers, marketers are affording themselves with the concept of value co-creation and ensuring that the development of knowledge is given priority. 
  • 780
  • 05 Jan 2024
Topic Review
Quality Information and Rural Tourism
Investing in quality information contributes to the relationship between demand and supply. To identify the relevance of each attribute in the consumers’ perception, categories and dimensions for quality information were analyzed based on the user’s vision and semantic criteria.
  • 767
  • 14 Sep 2022
Topic Review
Social Innovations Dissemination
Although there is great interest on the global stage in promoting plant-based diets (PBDs) to achieve some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the results of their adoption are unsatisfactory. Academics propose to entangle this effort by addressing the challenges of dissemination of social innovations (SIs). SIs generate different adoption attitudes, some of them related to socio-psychological aspects on the part of potential adopters. This research work aims to better understand the adoption of SIs, such as PBDs, which may induce socio-psychological concerns in potential adopters. In this sense, this research postulates that current perspectives on the dissemination and adoption of SI offer partial insights into understanding the shift to PBD. To overcome these limitations, a holistic process perspective of the adopter’s decision-making to change diet is derived and proposed. An exploratory, abductive, and theory-building effort has been carried out, based on a cross-analysis of three different adopter profiles, with a total of 69 semi-structured interviews. A new model for a comprehensive understanding from the adopter’s perspective on dietary change is outlined with new socio-psychological insights emerging from the adopter’s viewpoint. Additionally, the new model offers renewed opportunities for practitioners in terms of PBD implementation, usage, and policy.
  • 720
  • 03 Aug 2023
Topic Review
Local News and Geolocation Technology in Portugal
New projects have recently emerged to develop geolocation technology for the publication of local news in Portugal. These types of new initiatives open the possibility to explore new media perspectives, identifying emerging directions and opportunities to develop more competitive ways to publish local news. In this work, we study these ideas and to what extent they can be used to cope with the challenges that the local Portuguese press is currently facing. We provide local news editors with information to further develop their e-participation and news publishing activities. To this end, we present 10 indicators that measure geolocation technology that has been successful in providing attractive services to local consumers. Lastly, we analyze five Portuguese apps by means of the proposed guideline. Our work shows that the use of geolocation technology has a great potential for local journalism in Portugal but nevertheless we still find flaws in their implementation. 
  • 704
  • 14 Nov 2021
Topic Review
Green Tourism Synergies with Cultural and Creative Industries
Green tourism is part of the global effort to create a more sustainable living environment, taking into account the needs of both the industry, the tourists and the local communities. A number of studies have been published on sustainable and/or green tourism discussing problems of “carrying capacity, control of tourism development, and the relevance of the term to mass or conventional tourism”. 
  • 682
  • 19 Jan 2024
Topic Review
Financial Technologies
Financial technology (fintech) is an emerging field where novel technologies are used to improve the business operations or services offered by financial institutions and enterprises. Artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and cloud services have caused process disruption, while big data enables greater customer acquisition and retention. Together, these technologies have enhanced the use of interactive fintech agents in finance.  
  • 617
  • 14 Nov 2023
Topic Review
Preserving and Presenting Heritage through Sustainable Energy Tourism
Energy tourism, which is quite recent despite the fact that the practice of tourists visiting power plants, very often for educational purposes, has a long tradition in Slovenia due to power plants on the Drava River. Particularly, the oldest Fala power plant is an area where the technical field of electric power production and transmission overlaps with tourism. Power facilities strongly influence the landscape, and that is why their inclusion into the tourist offer is worth considering.
  • 613
  • 24 Jan 2022
Topic Review
False Information Detection
An important feature of the information age is the emergence of information, which includes a great deal of disinformation. This disinformation influences people’s decision making and can trigger social conflict. With the spread of the internet, disinformation often comes in the form of online rumors. Online rumors usually refer to words spread through online communication media (such as Weibo, WeChat, forums, etc.), which have no basis in fact and have an offensive and purposeful nature. Online rumors are often used for fraud and phishing, which pose a significant threat to the safety and interests of individuals and society, making the detection of false information increasingly important.
  • 590
  • 02 Feb 2024
Topic Review
Digital Transformation and Green Innovation of Energy Enterprises
The era of the digital economy has ushered in a new development opportunity for the energy industry, and the role of digitalization in the green and low-carbon transformation process of the energy industry has received increasing attention. There is a significant positive correlation between the digital transformation level and the green innovation level of energy enterprises. The mechanism test shows that the digital transformation of energy enterprises can promote their green innovation ability by improving their dynamic capability. 
  • 587
  • 16 Jun 2023
Topic Review
Environmental Communication on Twitter
People can learn about environmental issues via media outlets. Among various outlets, social media is vital since people around the world are spending a considerable amount of time using the platforms. Environmental activists and organizations understand the prevalence of social media usage among contemporary media users, and hence, activists and organizations are using social media to reach their target audiences.
  • 569
  • 20 Oct 2023
Topic Review Peer Reviewed
Location-Based Augmented Reality in Education
Location-based Augmented Reality (AR) refers to educational mobile applications where a layer of digital content overlays the users’ physical environment when the users reach specific geographical locations. Unlike marker-based AR, which relies on predefined visual triggers (e.g., 2D images), location-based AR relies on GPS sensors and other positioning technologies and techniques to overlay digital content such as text, images, 3D models, animations, video, or audio onto the physical world based on the user’s real-time location. This approach transforms physical spaces into dynamic learning environments, enabling students to engage with educational content in a way that is tied to their immediate surroundings, adopting in this way principles of learning theories such as situated learning and place-based learning.
  • 540
  • 22 Apr 2025
Topic Review Peer Reviewed
Political Communication in the Age of Platforms
Political communication has been extensively studied through both the broader context of societal and political systems, as well as through the lens of mediatization, which emphasizes the intersection of political and media logics. Within this framework, scholars originally identified three distinct stages or eras of political communication. However, recent scholarship has increasingly focused on the transition to a “fourth” era, characterized by the growing impact of digital and social media. This shift, from the “television age” to the “social media age”, has not only introduced new media channels for conveying political messages but has also fundamentally transformed the nature of political communication itself—shifting from top-down, centralized models to more horizontal, decentralized forms of interaction. Current research on the role of social media in political communication reveals a complex landscape. These platforms appear to both enhance and undermine established processes of political deliberation. On the one hand, they provide new avenues for civic engagement and political discourse, while on the other, they contribute to issues such as disinformation, polarization, and the erosion of privacy. This entry aims to offer a comprehensive review of how social media platforms have reshaped the dynamics of political communication and civic participation. It further explores the challenges that accompany these transformations, such as the spread of disinformation, rising political polarization, increasing incivility, and privacy concerns stemming from advanced digital marketing techniques in political contexts. 
  • 319
  • 05 Jun 2025
Topic Review Peer Reviewed
Vibocracy and the Collapse of Shared Reality
Vibocracy refers to societal conditions in which public life and decision-making are shaped by affective resonance, performative legitimacy, and unstable epistemic frames, often amplified by algorithmic media and neo-oral communication environments. Unlike wicked problems, which presuppose shared intelligibility, and post-truth politics, which emphasize the erosion of factual authority, vibocracy designates contexts where problems themselves are enacted and sustained through affective circulation. Recent years have seen the emergence of societal challenges where public life and decision-making are shaped less by shared evidence and deliberative reasoning than by affective resonance and performative legitimacy. This entry introduces the concept of vibocracy to describe these conditions and distinguishes it from existing categories such as wicked problems and messes. The analysis is based on a conceptual synthesis of scholarship from planning, organizational studies, media theory, and political science, combined with illustrative examples from recent societal controversies. The main finding is that vibocratic problems resist not only solutions but stable framing itself, creating volatile, performative arenas where legitimacy is enacted rather than negotiated. The entry concludes by proposing vibocracy as a distinct conceptual lens for understanding emerging societal challenges and outlines methodological implications for researchers and practitioners.
  • 76
  • 14 Oct 2025
Topic Review Peer Reviewed
Health Communication in the Age of Platforms: Drivers of Misinformation and the Crisis of Medical Expertise
Misinformation has emerged as a significant threat to both society and public health, with social media acting as a major conduit for its dissemination. This contributes to harmful health outcomes and undermines trust in authoritative institutions. In addition, the dismantling of scientific authority seems to be a symptom of the post-truth era, where “alternative facts” are presented in the public debate as indisputable evidence of the inherent limitations of scientific infallibility. The prevalence of misinformation on social media platforms stems from multiple, interconnected factors, including individual-level influences such as cognitive biases, as well as systemic aspects of social media’s information architecture. Unlike scientific institutions that adhere to the principles of evidence-based knowledge, social media platforms operate under an attention-driven model that favors virality over factuality. Addressing these challenges effectively requires coordinated, multi-level, and multidisciplinary interventions targeting users, content creators, technology companies, health authorities, and governments to restore public trust and safeguard the credibility of medical expertise.
  • 14
  • 19 Nov 2025
Topic Review Peer Reviewed
Risk and Emergency Communication
The entry is intended to define the concepts of risk communication and emergency communication. At the same time, it explains the difference not only from a communication point of view but also from a cultural one. Risk and emergency are two sociologically relevant events, and they are culturally constructed. They are events that bring about a socio-cultural change, which, in turn, is triggered by the population’s responses on the basis of the social perception of the events themselves, also conveyed by the different forms of communication. When communicating risk and emergencies, it is essential to educate people about alert and emergency systems. Above all, what they refer to and what kind of message they contain. The “warning communication” must be specific and refer exclusively to the threat to start the first phase of the communication through which it is possible to understand the type of threat and define the communication plan to be implemented later. The use of social media, which is strongly spread in digital society, allows not only rapid dissemination of information but also rapid communication and message selection (speed and content of the message are equally important). Alert and warning systems are very often linked to risk systems, since the risk from natural disasters (eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis) or technological catastrophes (nuclear power plant explosions) follows emergency phases when the phenomenon occurs. The communication processes, in and emergency, must be able to explain, persuade but also confer an assist the political decision-maker and the decision-making process itself through an alert system (especially in the first phase), followed by continuous dissemination through the media that the digital society offers, as well as through the usual systems adopted by government bodies (for example, bulletins and news), specialized research institutions and institutes with information and communication functions. In risk and emergency management, information and communication are to be considered, respectively, a basic element and a means of dissemination and training to educate the population to perceive a risk, to recognise emergencies and the possible impact of the risk. Differences will be expressed and analysed with reference to international examples.
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  • 04 Nov 2025
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