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Eight-Element Communication Model for Internet Health Rumors: A New Exploration of Lasswell’s “5W Communication Model”
- Haibin Wei,
- Jianyang Chen,
- Xinyan Gan and
- Zhenyi Liang
(1) Background: Rumors are a special type of information. Based on the classic theory of the communication of information, the “5W” communication model, this article aims to build a new model and thus explains the generation and communica...