Mass Communication, Digital Media, and Public Health

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue on Mass Communication, Digital Media, and Public Health in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
The media and social networks are shapers of public opinion and citizen behavior. In this sense, their study becomes of vital importance for the establishment of public policies on health information under the needs of the current digital ecosystem and understanding its complexities, audiences, and phenomena. Aspects such as the weaknesses in media self-regulation, censorship systems, self-censorship, misleading advertising, misinformation, and fake news began at the height of COVID-19 and were pointed out as urgent matters by various international organizations such as the European Commission (EC) or the World Health Organization (WHO) while states were looking for the most suitable formulas to avoid information vices, especially in such sensitive areas as public health information.
Researchers in the field of health communication have conducted studies to prevent a more significant impact of misinformation ranging from the promotion of media and health literacy for citizens to the establishment of fact-checking systems. However, aspects such as misleading advertising, health apomediation promoted by social networks, and the phenomenon of ‘influencers’ in this field are adapting their dynamics and content mechanics at a much faster pace than communication research.
This Special Issue is open to the subject area of Mass Communication, Digital Media, and Public Health. The keywords listed below provide an outline of some of the possible areas of interest.

Dr. Luis Miguel Romero-Rodríguez
Dr. Clara Muela-Molina
Dr. Luisa Agante
Prof. Daniel Catalan-Matamoros
Guest Editors

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