訊息流行病學（Infodemiology）在教育上的應用與展望

How Can Educators Prepare for the Age of Infodemiology?

訊息流行病學是透過對網路上和社群媒體上海量數據進行分析，辨別正確及非正確訊息的分布情形，找出訊息不對等的原因，以提供平衡報導。在非疫情期間，用以提早預測疫情爆發的時間；在疫情時期，用以降低民眾的恐慌。在資訊爆炸的時代，理解訊息流行病學並培養相應能力為本文目的，作者引述摘錄G. Eysenbach對訊息流行病學的想法及提出的方法架構，從緣起、延伸應用，以及該跨領域學科在教育上的展望加以申述，祈能拋磚引玉，帶出未來更多以網路搜尋行為的討論和研究。

Infodemiology is the study of information and epidemiology. It uses Internet data, such as searching behaviors, chats, number of comments, shares, and individuals’ logfiles to detect the early outbreak of a disease, find sources of misinformation, malinformation, and disinformation, and identify inequalities in the distribution of information. This paper summarizes Gunther Eysenbach’s views on infodemiology and its methodological framework. The author provides her views on how educators can prepare themselves for the age of infodemiology.