INFORMATION RESEARCH

A Dual-Path Study on the Quality and Effect of Public Health Emergency Information Disclosure: A Case Study from the Perspective of Structuralism

  • Liu Bing ,
  • Sun Yichen
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  • School of Management, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387

Received date: 2023-03-03

  Revised date: 2023-06-16

  Online published: 2023-11-27

Abstract

[Purpose/Significance] This paper investigates the impact of discourse strategies on the public understanding and acceptance of information disclosure, and reveals the internal relationship between the quality of information disclosure and the effectiveness of information disclosure. [Method/Process] Based on the structuralism theory, this paper used a mixture of case study, discourse analysis, and text analysis, then took two typical cases about information disclosure during COVID-19 as the research object to investigate the impact of discourse strategies on the public in emergency of public health. The internal relationship between the quality and the effect of information disclosure was analyzed and revealed. [Result/Conclusion] The research suggests that:(1) There is a dual-path influence relationship between the quality of information content, the quality of information expression,and the disclosure effect.(2) As an intermediate variable between the quality and effectiveness of public emergency information disclosure, the public’s emotion play a crucial role in them. And the essence of the information disclosure effect is the result of the meaning construction based on the content delivered by the information audience through the information disclosure text system;(3) The quality of information expression composed of discourse and pragmatics highlights the unique attributes of the quality of information disclosure in. public health emergency.

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Liu Bing , Sun Yichen . A Dual-Path Study on the Quality and Effect of Public Health Emergency Information Disclosure: A Case Study from the Perspective of Structuralism[J]. Library and Information Service, 2023 , 67(21) : 111 -123 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2023.21.011

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