Social Media Activism to Change Corporate and Government Policies That Will Promote Healthy People and Planet
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Communication and Informatics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 February 2022) | Viewed by 3339
Special Issue Editor
Interests: population approaches to promote healthy, resilient and sustainable food environments; evaluate government and corporate policies and accountability to promote healthy, resilient and sustainable food systems; develop approaches to monitor and evaluate public- and private-sector initiatives, cross-sectoral engagement, and transnational networks to address the global syndemic (undernutrition, obesity and climate change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Social media activism has emerged as an important strategy to shape the public narrative for why businesses must change corporate practices to support healthy, equitable and environmentally sustainable diets and food systems to benefit the health level of the people and planet. Social media activism uses communication technologies and digital platforms to catalyze social and political causes and movements. Media advocacy and social media activism may raise public awareness about the factors contributing to obesity and chronic diseases; create a collective identify among constituencies to build protest movements that lead to civic, legislative and legal actions; expose corporate practices that damage healthy and sustainable food systems that accelerate corporate commitments; create consumer demand for new products and services; support social norms for healthy and sustainable behaviors.
This Special Issue welcomes submissions of systematic and narrative reviews; empirical, cross-sectional, and case studies; social network and policy studies that explore how media advocacy and social media activism among civil society organizations and coalitions may influence government and corporate policies and practices. Potential topics include: (1) analytic frameworks that examine how social media advocacy and activism influence institutional, public health and food system outcomes; (2) changes to food supply chain practices; (3) effectiveness of shareholder resolutions and investors’ pledges; (4) how activism may catalyze civic actions that lead to government legislation and corporate responses to sugary beverage and alcohol taxes, warning labels, minimum-age laws, healthy default beverage legislation; address single-use plastic pollution; promote safe drinking water; restrict or ban unhealthy product marketing to infants, children and adolescents.
Dr. Vivica Kraak
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- media
- mass media
- social media
- health
- public health policy
- policy making
- advocacy
- activism
- communication
- discourse
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