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People, Poultry and Pandemics: Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Indonesia
Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) (2020), 4 pp.
"This SSHAP Case Study illustrates how the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) worked in 2006-07 to support the Indonesian government in response to avian influenza outbreaks. The agency provided social mobilisation and education programmes to schools and villages in affected communities and p
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The Missing Perspectives of Women in COVID-19 News: A Special Report on Women’s Under-Representation in News Media
Deep Insights
Gates Foundation (2020), 101 pp.
"This report was commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine women’s representation in COVID-19/coronavirus newsgathering and news coverage in India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK, and the US. It is rooted in a computational news content analysis of 11,913 publications an
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Understanding the Infodemic and Misinformation in the Fight Against COVID-19
Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2020), 6 pp.
"Misinformation is false or inaccurate information deliberately intended to deceive. In the context of the current pandemic, it can greatly affect all aspects of life, especifically people’s mental health, since searching for COVID-19 updates on the Internet has jumped 50% –70% across all genera
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Human-Centred Design in Humanitarian Settings: Methodologies for Inclusivity
Key Guides
London: GSMA (2020), 40 pp.
"To ensure that mobile solutions are designed inclusively in humanitarian contexts, it is important that target users are involved as co-creators of the future they want. A human-centred design approach is one way to ensure that users’ perspectives are fully integrated into programme design. This
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Guidance for Covering Self-Harm in the Media
Samaritans (2020), 3 pp.
Periodismo y cambio climática: Recomendaciones para la cobertura periodística desde un enfoque de salud
Reston, Virginia: Salud sin Daño (2020), 43 pp.
Global Rumour Bulletin
Internews (2020), 10 pp.
"For the last 6 months, the Internews' Rooted in Trust project has collected more than 5,238 rumours from seven countries: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Philippines, Colombia, Central African Republic, Mali and Sudan. We work in 12 local languages and collect data across seven major social media platforms a
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"This Information Ecosystem Assessment includes the thoughts and opinions of 48 migrant community leaders and migrant workers in Thailand. The information was collected through a series of qualitative and quantitative techniques, using remote data collection methodologies to ensure the safety of par
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Disinfodemic: Deciphering COVID-19 Disinformation
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 16 pp.
"COVID-19 disinformation creates confusion about medical science with immediate impact on every person on the planet, and upon whole societies. It is more toxic and more deadly than disinformation about other subjects. That is why this policy brief coins the term disinfodemic. Using this frame, the
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Association Between Suicide Reporting in the Media and Suicide: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
BMJ, issue 368 (2020), 17 pp.
"In this large and up-to-date systematic review and meta-analysis, we looked at the impact of suicide reports in news and information media on subsequent numbers of suicides. Our results support the continued use and promotion of guidelines on responsible media reporting of suicide, which are the be
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"Human behavior plays a central role in reducing the spread of coronavirus. Communication by government entities and other trusted sources about desirable or mandated behaviors during the pandemic is critical. As policymakers, funders, and program staff, it is our responsibility to ensure that commu
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Types, Sources, and Claims of COVID-19 Misinformation
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 13 pp.
"In this RISJ factsheet we identify some of the main types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation seen so far. We analyse a sample of 225 pieces of misinformation rated false or misleading by factcheckers and published in English between January and the end of March 2020, drawn from a colle
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Manuel de production et de diffusion de reportages à distance dans le contexte du COVID-19
Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2020), 35 pp.
"La Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) forme actuellement des jeunes reporters dans 68 stations de radio à travers six pays Africains (La République Démocratique du Congo, le Libéria, la Côte d’Ivoire, l’Afrique du Sud, la Tanzanie et la Zambie) à produire des émissions de radio hebdomad
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Comunicación, sociedad y salud en contexto de pandemia
Deep Insights
Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación (Quito), issue 145 (2020), pp. 41-300
Report: The Perception of COVID-19 Communication in West Africa (non-Sahel)
Abuja: UNESCO (2020), 25 pp.
"According to the respondents (522 respondents), people pay most attention to "prevention methods from COVID-19" (3.82 out of the full score 5). On the contrary, the respondents pay relatively less attention to "Pandemic Statistics (local, national, and international)" (3.55 out of the full score 5)
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"With the exception of the introduction of new press passes for the journalists by the Deputy Minister of Information and the harassment that followed its implementation, the media landscape in Liberia in May and June has been open and free. Even though the Ministry of Information reduced the freque
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Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Ghana, March - June
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 7 pp.
"The media in Ghana have had relatively free space to operate even amidst the COVID-19 restrictions. The traditional legal texts and the new emergency laws adopted by the government to fight the pandemic have not been used to violate press freedom. The media have, therefore, discharged with distinct
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Handbook for Media: The New Coronavirus and COVID-19
London: BBC Media Action (2020), 34 pp.
"The new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can spread rapidly and cause a lot of harm. But if communities respond appropriately and quickly, it is possible to limit its spread and the damage it causes. Mass media and communication have an absolutely vital role to play in this effort. Media can: provi
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COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment: Behaviour, Ethics, Misinformation and Policy Strategies
London: Royal Society; British Academy (2020), 35 pp.
"COVID-19 vaccine deployment faces an unprecedented degree of uncertainty and complexity, which is difficult to communicate, such as immune response, duration of immunity, repeated vaccination, transmission dynamics, microbiological and clinical characteristics and multiple vaccines. Priority groups
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