加拿大活动计划作业：安乐死运动组合计划-A campaign portfolio plan on euthanasia

Abstract摘要

目前，关于安乐死是否应该进行的社会争论很多，因此，有必要让更多的人了解安乐死以及由安乐死引发的许多伦理、法律和人权问题。除了利用电视、报纸等传统媒体进行宣传外，社会媒体在制作信息、内容和传播方式上与传统媒体有很大的不同，利用社会媒体宣传安乐死知识也是合适的。采取的策略包括：鼓励每个人参与宣传，注意与观众沟通安乐死，建立在线社区等。

关键词：安乐死、社会媒体、宣传、传播

Currently, there is lots of social debate about whether euthanasia should be carried out, therefore, it is necessary to let more people know euthanasia and many ethical, legal and human rights issues triggered by euthanasia. In addition to the use of television, newspapers and other traditional media for publicity, social media is very different from traditional media in the production of information and content and communication ways, the use of social media for publicizing knowledge about euthanasia is also appropriate. Strategies taken include: encouraging everyone's participation in the propaganda, paying attention to communication with audience about euthanasia and establishing online community, and so on.

Key words: euthanasia, social media, publicize, communication

 

1.0 Introduction引言

目前，关于安乐死是否应该进行的社会争论很多，因此，有必要制定适当的策略来宣传安乐死，使更多的人了解安乐死以及由安乐死引发的许多伦理、法律和人权问题。

Currently, there is lots of social debate about whether euthanasia should be carried out, therefore, it is necessary to develop appropriate strategies to publicize euthanasia, so that more people will know euthanasia and many ethical, legal, human rights issues triggered by euthanasia.

2.0 Body主体

活动组合计划采用传统媒体与社交媒体相结合的混合策略进行宣传。

The campaign portfolio plan uses a mix strategy of combining traditional media with social media for publicizing.

2.1 Traditional media传统媒体

传统媒体（如电视）之所以被用于宣传，是因为其拥有大量观众的优势，使消费者在安乐死的视觉和听觉方面有直观的感受，从而引起人们对安乐死的重视（Myers，2014年）。报纸对大量的受众具有优势，宣传成本相对较低（那不勒斯，2011年）。

Traditional media such as television is used for publicizing because of its advantage of having lots of viewers, bringing consumers intuitive feelings in visual, auditory aspects on euthanasia to cause concern for emphasis on euthanasia (Myers, 2014). Newspapers are advantage publicizing for a large number of audiences and relatively low costs for publicizing (Napoli, 2011).

2.2 Social media社交媒体

Adoption of social media for publicizing has the following characteristics. First, people can comment, feed back, share and forward information. According to the theory of Six Degrees of Separation, in social media, the speed and breadth of information dissemination will be greatly enhanced (Vossen and Valkenburg, 2016). Second, two way communication of content and information between the media and users can better arouse audience's sympathy and the results of dissemination will be better (Robischon, 2016). Finally, through social media, people can quickly form a online community, free communication through online communities helps people to form a consensus on a particular issue (Vossen and Valkenburg, 2016).

2.3 Strategy for publicizing knowledge about euthanasia

2.3.1 Traditional media

Considering traditional media, it uses a more balanced and debate tone for publicizing, through designing special programs on euthanasia, from moral, medical, legal, ethical and other aspects to report euthanasia, allowing the public from a different perspective to understand euthanasia. Through coverage for patients’ life and interviewing them, it allows the public to understand what the patients’ needs; inviting those who have different views on euthanasia, including doctors, sociologists, lawyers to debate on TV or debate in newspaper about euthanasia.

2.3.2 Social media

To publicize knowledge about euthanasia makes use of social media, there are three strategies for publicizing. Firstly, it is through social media: informative tone to upload information relating to euthanasia, at the same time, people are encouraged to upload, share, review photos, text, cases about euthanasia to attract more people to pay attention to euthanasia issues. Secondly, people can discuss relevant hot topics on euthanasia through social platform, by the two-way communication to allow them to have a more profound understanding about moral, legal, ethical issues arising from euthanasia. Finally, through social media, it can establish an online community concerning about euthanasia to facilitate to reach a consensus of the majority of Internet users on whether euthanasia should be adopted.  

2.4 How our group works together on the strategy

First of all, our group has learned about debate relating to euthanasia, then we understood the characteristics of traditional media and social media, reaching a consensus that the use of a mixed strategy to publicize euthanasia issues is appropriate. Finally, we proposed a mixed strategy of using both traditional media and social media for publicize knowledge about euthanasia. 

 

References

Myers, J. (2014). The business of media. Marketing Magazine, 110(10), 6.

Napoli, P. M. (2011). Audience evolution: new technologies and the transformation of media audiences. New York: Columbia University Press.

Robischon, N. (2016). For shaking up media across the globe. Fast Company, 203, 30-114.

Vossen, H. G. M. and Valkenburg, P. M. (2016). Do social media foster or curtail adolescents’ empathy? A longitudinal study. Computers in Human Behavior, 63(10), 118-124.