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Gestion de la communication publique dans une situation de crise sanitaire mondiale: Cas de la Covid-19 en Côte d'Ivoire, 2020-2022
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 173 pp.
"Le 11 mars 2020, la Côte d'Ivoire enregistrait son premier cas confirmé de personne atteinte de COVID-19. Dès lors à l'instar de nombreux pays dans le monde, plusieurs actions ont alors été entreprises par le gouvernement ivoirien pour apporter une riposte à la crise. Cette riposte nationale
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News Distortion in Times of Crises: Covid-19 Case in the Arab Media
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5222-5246
"This article investigates news distortion within the Arab media ecosystem, as manifested on Arab media Facebook pages and perceived by Arab journalists during the COVID-19 pandemic. A textual analysis was conducted on 6 news Facebook pages affiliated with major local media channels in 6 Arab countr
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Have people ‘had enough of experts’? The impact of populism and pandemic misinformation on institutional trust in comparative perspective
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 22 pp.
"Public trust in institutions is a key prerequisite for effective crisis management. However, the rise of populism and misinformation in recent years made it increasingly difficult to maintain institutional trust. Despite this recognition, we still lack a systematic understanding of how exposure to
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Vaccination Communication Strategies and Uptake in Africa: A Systematic Review
Vaccines, volume 12, issue 1333 (2024), 31 pp.
"African countries experience high rates of infectious diseases that are mostly preventable by vaccination. Despite the risks of infections and other adverse outcomes, vaccination coverage in the African region remains significantly low. Poor vaccination knowledge is a contributory factor, and effec
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Transforming Lives: The Impactful Journey and Projects of Population Media Center-Ethiopia Over Two Decades. Volume I
Addis Ababa: Population Media center-Ethiopia (2024), vi, 66 pp.
"PMC-E stands as a beacon of hope and enlightenment in the realm of radio programming, leveraging the power of entertainment to educate and inspire audiences across Ethiopia. Through a diverse array of radio serial dramas and talk shows, PMC-E has transcended traditional boundaries, reaching million
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Challenges and Opportunities for Journalism in the Bulgarian COVID-19 Communication Ecology
Journalism Practice, volume 18, issue 1 (2024), pp. 119-136
"The coronavirus pandemic brought immense challenges to journalists worldwide, including new threats to media freedom, journalism safety and practice. The impact of the pandemic on journalism is yet to be fully understood and examined but this paper contributes to the field by focusing on the impact
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Experientially simulated others: Finding social support for mental health in digital games
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 17 pp.
"People with mental illness struggle to find connection and community due to a combination of stigma, social isolation, and adverse social experiences. Digital games, as an immersive and interactive media, can convey aspects of mental health experiences in thoughtful ways. I considered how players c
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Doctors for the truth: Latin American antivaccine oppositional cultures on Telegram
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 15 pp.
"The antivaccine hesitancy movement represents a challenge to public policy and platform regulations. During COVID-19, various Latin American antivaccine groups clashed with official sanitary initiatives. Despite many responses, little progress has been made in reaching these groups to transform the
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“We don’t believe in [the] Coronavirus; we believe in Allah. Whatever happens, it happens from Allah”: Pakistani media’s response to countering conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic
Newspaper Research Journal, volume 46, issue 1 (2024), pp. 6-28
"This study examines the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic by the four leading newspapers of Pakistan—Dawn, The News, Daily Times and The Nation—when they were responsible for informing and educating the public during a health crisis hit by conspiracy theories. The researchers utilized content a
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Degrees of deception: The effects of different types of COVID-19 misinformation and the effectiveness of corrective information in crisis times
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1699-1715
"Responding to widespread concerns about misinformation’s impact on democracy, we conducted an experiment in which we exposed German participants to different degrees of misinformation on COVID-19 connected to politicized (immigration) and apolitical (runners) issues (N = 1,490). Our key findings
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Disinformation exports: How foreign anti-vaccine narratives reached West African communities online
First Draft (2023)
"Pro-Russian disinformation networks and American anti-science websites are pushing anti-vaccine content that is reaching large West African Facebook Pages and Groups. These networks are spreading social media posts and articles that contain misleading messages about Covid-19 vaccines. These message
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Conspiracy theories in the time of COVID-19
London; New York: Routledge (2023), x, 237 pp.
"Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on the US and the UK. The book combines digital methods analysis of large datasets assembled from social media with politic
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Elevating the Uses of Storytelling Methods Within Indigenous Health Research: A Critical, Participatory Scoping Review
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, volume 22 (2023), 24 pp.
"There is a profoundly troubling history of research being done on Indigenous peoples without regard for their priorities and accompanying calls to decolonize health research. Storytelling methods can privilege Indigenous voices in research. Indigenous people’s knowledge systems have existed for m
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The Prevalence, Features, Influencing Factors, and Solutions for COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation: Systematic Review
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, volume 9, issue e40201 (2023), 23 pp.
"This review aims to synthesize the global evidence on misinformation related to COVID-19 vaccines, including its prevalence, features, influencing factors, impacts, and solutions for combating misinformation. We performed a systematic review by searching 5 peer-reviewed databases (PubMed, Embase, W
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Pandemic, politics, and the safety of journalists: Downward spiral of press freedom in India
Review of Communication, volume 23, issue 3 (2023), pp. 210-227
"According to the 2023 World Press Freedom Index rankings by the RSF, India ranks 161 out of 180 countries. One of the important indicators that the index bases the ranking on is the level of violence against the journalists and their overall safety. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian governme
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Vernacular Radio and the Practice of Resistance: Community Radio as a Cultural Tool to Engage on Health and Social Identities Among Marginalized Communities in Ghana
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 99-118
"This article explores how local values and social identities can be integrated into Ghana’s formal COVID-19 public health communication interventions using community radio. The study adopted a qualitative approach using focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and reflexive thematic analysis
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Digital fit: Influencia de las redes sociales en la alimentación y en el aspecto físico de los menores
Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE; UNIR (2023), 41 pp.
"Las conclusiones generales y aplicables a toda la muestra, independientemente de su edad, sexo y comunidad autónoma, son: 1. TikTok se posiciona como la red social en donde los menores siguen a más influencers, seguida de YouTube e Instagram. 2. El tipo de influencer más seguido son los gamers,
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