The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the criticality of science communication Utilising a mixed-methods approach, this article takes an audience-focused perspective to analysing COVID-19 related social media posts on 23 popular South Pacific community Facebook pages over a four-month period across eight South Pacific countries We analyse how audiences co-opt scientific terms, address information gaps and embed it in their lived experience It is ascertained that online conversations around COVID-19 in the Pacific are intermeshed with both scientific fact and, personal accounts and rumours, referred to locally as 'coconut wireless', problematising established modes of empirical enquiry

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南太平洋的COVID-19：科学传播，Facebook和“椰子无线”

COVID-19大流行的爆发凸显了科学传播的重要性利用混合方法，本文以读者为中心，分析了23个南太平洋社区Facebook页面上四个页​​面上与COVID-19相关的社交媒体帖子在南太平洋八个国家/地区的每个月时间里，我们分析了受众如何选择科学术语，解决信息鸿沟并将其嵌入到他们的生活经验中。确定了太平洋地区围绕COVID-19的在线对话与科学事实和个人账目和谣言，在当地被称为“无线椰子”，使已建立的实证研究模式出现问题