Translating Knowledge, Establishing Trust: The role of social media in communicating the Covid-19 pandemic in The Netherlands

This chapter examines the role of social media in translating information between scientists (experts), government (policy-makers), mass media (journalists) and citizens (non-experts) during the first six months after the COVID-19 outbreak in the Netherlands. Over the past decade, the institutional (translational) model of science communication, based on linear vectors of information flows between institutions, has gradually converted into a networked model where social media propel information flows circulating between all actors involved. The question driving our research is: How are social... Mehr ...