CAMARINES SUR POLYTHECNIC COLLEGES

PURPOSIVE
COMMUNICATION
Activity #6
Angelyn M. Sayat
BSN 1D
ACADEMIC
WRITING
QUESTION AND
ANSWER

1. What is the topic?

Grappling with the COVID-19 health crisis,
a content analysis of communication
strategies and their effects on public
engagement on social media which is
about how the government will handle a
new strategy on how to communicate with
the people in the midst of the COVID-19
and also what it's effect or outcomes.
QUESTION AND
ANSWER

2. What are the aims or objectives?

The researcher aimed to:
Investigate how the Sina Weibo People's
Daily, a newspaper in China, used an
online social networking site to
communicate about COVID-19;
develop an integrated framework to
examine the content, message style, and
interactive features of COVID-19–related
posts and;
determine their effects on public
engagement in the largest social media
network in China.
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ANSWER

3. How did the researcher conducted the research?

What were the steps?
Content analysis was use to analyze COVID-19 posts,
and coding was performed on three main dimensions:
The content, message style, and interactive features.
The content dimension was coded into six
subdimensions: action, new evidence, reassurance,
disease prevention, health care services, and
uncertainty.
The style dimension was coded into the sub
dimensions of narrative and nonnarrative.
The Interactive features, they were coded into links to
external sources, use of hashtags, use of questions to
solicit feedback, and use of multimedia.

Public engagement was identified in a form of the

amount of shares, comments, and likes on the People’s
Daily’s Sina Weibo account from January 20, 2020, to
March 11, 2020, so they can reveal the different levels
of public engagement and communication strategies. A
one-way analysis of variance followed by a post-hoc
Tukey test and negative binomial regression analysis
were employed to generate the results.
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ANSWER
4. What was proven in conducting the research?
What's the point of the research?
They found out that the content frames of action, new
evidence, and reassurance delivered in a non narrative
style were predominant in COVID-19 communication
by the government, posts related to new evidence and
a nonnarrative style were strong negative predictors of
the number of shares. In terms of generating a high
number of shares, it was found that disease
prevention posts delivered in a narrative style were
able to achieve this purpose. Additionally, an
interaction effect was found between content and
style. The narrative style that is used in disease
prevention posts had a significant positive effect on
generating comments and likes by the Chinese public,
while links to external sources fostered sharing.

Selecting suitable communication strategies may

foster active liking and sharing of posts on social
media which can lead to raise of public’s awareness to
the COVID-19 and motivate them to take preventive
measures. The sharing of COVID-19 posts is
particularly important because this action can reach
out to a large audience, potentially helping to contain
the spread of the virus.