Female Scientists and their Participation on Risk Communication in COVID-19 Vaccination
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-554Keywords:
female scientists, participation, communication, vaccination against COVID-19Abstract
This article presents an exploration of a set of messages issued by different members of the Colombian public administration on the social network X, in which risk communication about vaccination against COVID-19 was carried out. A preliminary review of the messages identified a less than extensive involvement of experts, who are reliable and relevant sources for effective risk communication on vaccines and vaccination. It was found that the participation of female scientists was quantitatively lower, so questions arise in relation to this phenomenon. How many female scientists were consulted by the public administration to resolve doubts regarding vaccines and vaccination? What motivated the selection of these experts? Was there a gender gap in the consultation with experts? The research shows that there are still gaps that go beyond academic training and are related to other aspects.
Downloads
References
Bles, A. M., Van Der, Linden, S. Van Der, Freeman, A. L. J., Mitchell, J., Galvao, A. B., Zaval, L., Spiegelhalter, D. J., Linden, S., Alj, F., Mitchell, J. & Ab, G. (2019). Communicating uncertainty about facts, numbers and science.
Cano Garcinuño, M. I. & Arce García, S. (2020). Análisis de la comunicación en redes sociales de la campaña de la vacuna de gripe en España. Revista Española de Salud Pública, 94, 202003008.
Costa-Sánchez, C. & López-García, X. (2020). Comunicación y crisis del coronavirus en España. Primeras lecciones. El Profesional de la Información, 29(3), 1-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2020.may.04.
Covello, V. T., Mc Callum, D. B. & Pavlova, M. T. (1987). Effective risk communication: the role and responsibility of government and non-government organizations. Plenum Press. Recuperado de: http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/001815908.
Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (2020). Consejería Presidencial para la Equidad de la Mujer (CPEM) y ONU mujeres (2020). Mujeres y hombres: brechas de género en Colombia. ONU Mujeres. Recuperado de: https://www.dane.gov.co/files/investigaciones/genero/publicaciones/mujeres-y-hombre-brechas-de-genero-colombia-informe.pdf.
Daza, S. & Pérez, T. (2008). Contando mujeres. Una reflexión sobre los indicadores de género y ciencia en Colombia. Revista Antropología Social, 10, 29-51.
García Jurado, M. A. (2018). Contribución de las mujeres en las revistas de sociología colombianas 1959-2000. Campos en Ciencias Sociales, 6(1), 73–90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15332/s2339-3688.2018.0001.03.
Gonzalo Iglesia, J. L. & Farré Coma, J. (2011). Teoría de la comunicación de riesgo.
Gómez, L. (2017). La comunicación de riesgo en salud: aspectos teóricos y metodológicos para el control de emergencias públicas sanitarias. Medisan, 21(12), 3387-3399.
MacKay, M., Ford, C., Colangeli, T., Gillis, D., Mc Whirter, J. E. & Papadopoulos, A. (2022). A content analysis of Canadian influencer crisis messages on Instagram and the public’s response during COVID-19. BMC Public Health, 22(1), 1-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13129-5.
Hilgartner, S. (1990). The dominant view of popularization: Conceptual problems, political Issues. Social Studies of Science, 20(3), 519-539.
Kasperson, R., Renn, O., Slovic, P., Brown, H., Emel, J., Goble, R., Kasperson, J. & Ratick, S. (1988). The social amplification of risk: A conceptual framework. En Risk Analysis, 8(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849772549-16.
Ley 2064 (2020). Ley del 9 de diciembre de 2020. Recuperado de: https://dapre.presidencia.gov.co/normativa/normativa/LEY2064DEL09DEDICIEMBREDE2020.pdf.
López-Aguirre, C. & Farías, D. (2022) El espejismo de la productividad científica y cómo las mujeres quedan atrás: el caso colombiano, Tapuya: Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad Latinoamericana, 5(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2022.2037819.
Menéndez-Villacreces, M. Trelles-Rodríguez, I., Badia-Valdés, A. & Donoso, F. (2020). Reflexiones en torno a la gestión de la comunicación de riesgos a propósito de la COVID-19. Alcance, 9, 128-148.
Moreno Catro, C. (s/f). El género en el mensaje. Claves para estudiar las asimetrías de hombres y mujeres en la comunicación de la ciencia. Valencia: Universidad de Valencia.
Murdock, G., Petts, J. & Horlick-Jones, T. (2003). After amplification: Re thinking the role of the media in risk communication. The Social Amplification of Risk, 156-178. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511550461.008.
Organización Panamericana de Salud (2021). Guía para elaborar una estrategia de comunicación de riesgos sobre las vacunas contra la COVID-19.
Pérez Bustos, T. (2013). Lecturas feministas de la comunicación pública de la ciencia en Colombia: un análisis de prácticas documentadas, visibles e invisibles. Maguaré, 27(1), 105-135.
Rodríguez, N. K. & Ruiz, J. D. (2022). Risk communication management through Facebook: Exploratory analysis of the initial strategies of 12 Latin American governments in the COVID 19 pandemic. Revista de Comunicación, 20(2), 73-91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26441/RC20.2-2021-A4.
Scholz, J., Wetzker, W., Licht, A., Heintzmann, R., Scherag, A., Weis, S., Pletz, M. W., Betsch, C., Bauer, M., Dickmann, P., Enders, P., Koch, R., Mai, S., Ullrich, M., Richert, C., Eibner, C., Meinung, B., Stötzer, K., Köhler, J. & Guerra, J. (2021). The role of risk communication in public health interventions. Analysis of risk communication for a community quarantine in Germany to curb the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. PLoS ONE, 16(8), 1-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256113.
Toppenberg-Pejcic, D., Noyes, J., Allen, T., Alexander, N., Vanderford, M. & Gamhewage, G. (2019). Emergency Risk Communication: Lessons Learned from a Rapid Review of Recent Gray Literature on Ebola, Zika, and Yellow Fever. Health Communication, 34(4), 437-455. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2017.1405488.
Zeballos Rivas, D. R., Lopez Jaldin, M. L., Nina Canaviri, B., Portugal Escalante, L. F., Alanes Fernandez, A. M. C., Aguilar Ticona, J. P., Alanes Fernández, A. M. C. & Aguilar Ticona, J. P. (2021). Social media exposure, risk perception, preventive behaviors and attitudes during the COVID-19 epidemic in La Paz, Bolivia. A cross sectional study. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0245859. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245859.
Tovar Rojas, P. (2008). La mujer colombiana en la ciencia y la tecnología. ¿Se está cerrando la brecha? Arbor, (184)73, 835-844.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 CC Attribution 4.0
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
All CTS's issues and academic articles are under a CC-BY license.
Since 2007, CTS has provided open and free access to all its contents, including the complete archive of its quarterly edition and the different products presented in its electronic platform. This decision is based on the belief that offering free access to published materials helps to build a greater and better exchange of knowledge.
In turn, for the quarterly edition, CTS allows institutional and thematic repositories, as well as personal web pages, to self-archive articles in their post-print or editorial version, immediately after the publication of the final version of each issue and under the condition that a link to the original source will be incorporated into the self-archive.
