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Integrating supply and demand in social marketing programs: The Nosh-e-Jaan campaign to promote nutrition in Afghanistan

Nedra Kline Weinreich, Mustafa Basij Rasikh

Health Marketing Quarterly, volume 42, issue 1 (2024), pp. 24-47

"This case study describes a successful nutrition social marketing program in Afghanistan. By building up the domestic soy industry and supply chain, while creating consumer demand for high-protein soy products to combat malnutrition, the Nosh-e-Jaan campaign rebalanced the market dynamics for this ... more

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Doctors for the truth: Latin American antivaccine oppositional cultures on Telegram

Eduardo Paz Diaz, Paola Ricaurte

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 ... more

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Funny Enough: Incorporating Humor Into Health Messages to Promote Breast Self-Examination Behavior

Sijia Liu, Liang Chen

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 4441-4467

"Using the extended parallel process model (PPM), this research examines whether and how humor functions to influence women’s breast self-examination (BSE) intention. We conducted a 2 (humor: present vs. absent) × 2 (threat: high vs. low) × 2 (efficacy: high vs. low) between-subjects experiment ... more

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Faith 'n' science

Internews;IMA World Health (2023), 14 pp.

"A majority of communities in sub–Saharan Africa subscribe to religion which is part of the people’s way of life. At the center of religion are religious leaders whom communities trust and consult on various issues beyond faith and religion. By partnering with these revered figures and building ... more

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COVID-19 and the Constructions of Africa in African News Media

Mphathisi Ndlovu, Maame Nikabs

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 15, issue 2 (2023), pp. 179-198

"This article examines the constructions of Africa in COVID-19-related stories that were produced by African news media. Dominant scholarship indicates that western media generally reproduce and perpetuate harmful stereotypes on Africa. Given that there is scant literature on how African media cover ... more

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Disinformation exports: How foreign anti-vaccine narratives reached West African communities online

Carlotta Dotto, Seb Cubbon

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 ... more

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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

Emmanuel Essel, Eliza Govender

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 ... more

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Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives

Tendai Chari, Martin N. Ndlela (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiii, 240 pp.

"This topical volume illuminates ethical issues brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a broad range of case studies from different regions, it provides insights into the multiple and complex ways in which the pandemic has shaped media ethics. Chapters employ a wide range of innova ... more

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A scoping review of digital health interventions for combating COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation

Katarzyna Czerniak, Raji Pillai, Abhi Parmar, Abhi, Kavita Ramnath, Joseph Krocker, Sahiti Myneni

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, volume 30, issue 4 (2023), pp. 752-760

"We provide a scoping review of Digital Health Interventions (DHIs) that mitigate COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation seeding and spread. Materials and Methods: We applied our search protocol to PubMed, PsychINFO, and Web of Science to screen 1666 articles. The 17 articles included in this pa ... more

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Using mass media to increase audiences’ ability to keep safe from explosive ordnance in Afghanistan

London: BBC Media Action (2023), 2 pp.

"BBC Media Action has been using mass media to help audiences recognise risks and keep safe from explosive ordnance (EO), which is widespread across Afghanistan following years of conflict. We conducted a panel study in 10 most affected provinces to evaluate the impact of our programme. We found tha ... more

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Effect of Short, Animated Video Storytelling on Maternal Knowledge and Satisfaction in the Perinatal Period in South Africa: Randomized Controlled Trial

Maya Adam, Zwannda Kwinda, Mithilesh Dronavalli et al.

Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 25, issue e47266 (2023), 13 pp.

"Innovative mobile health (mHealth) interventions can improve maternal knowledge, thereby supporting national efforts to reduce preventable maternal and child mortality in South Africa. Studies have documented a potential role for mobile video content to support perinatal health messaging, enhance m ... aternal satisfaction, and overcome literacy barriers. Short, animated storytelling (SAS) is an innovative, emerging approach to mHealth messaging. Objective: We aimed to measure the effect of SAS videos on maternal knowledge and user satisfaction for mothers enrolled in antenatal care programs at 2 public health facilities in the Tshwane District of South Africa. Methods: We used a randomized controlled trial with a nested evaluation of user satisfaction. Participants were randomized 1:1 into Standard-of-Care (SOC) Control, and SAS Intervention groups. The intervention videos were delivered through WhatsApp, and 1 month later, participants responded to telephone surveys assessing their knowledge. The intervention group then participated in a nested evaluation of user satisfaction [...] Conclusions: While the SAS videos resulted in high user satisfaction, measured knowledge gains were small within a participant population that was already receiving perinatal health messages through antenatal clinics. The higher knowledge scores observed in older participants with higher education levels suggest that boosting maternal knowledge in younger mothers with lower education levels should continue to be a public health priority in South Africa. Given the high maternal satisfaction among the SAS video-users in this study, policy makers should consider integrating similar approaches into existing, broad-reaching perinatal health programs, such as MomConnect, to boost satisfaction and potentially enhance maternal engagement. While previous studies have shown the promise of animated video health education, most of this research has been conducted in high-income countries. More research in underresourced settings is urgently needed, especially as access to mobile technology increases in the Global South. Future studies should explore the effect of SAS videos on maternal knowledge in hard-to-reach populations with limited access to antenatal care, although real-world logistical challenges persist when implementing studies in underresourced South African populations." (Abstract) more

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Promoting Conspiracy Theory: From AIDS to COVID-19
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Nocili Nattrass

Global Public Health, volume 18, issue 1 (2023), 13 pp.

"Public health advocates in the US and South Africa emphasise that many of the vaccine hesitant are not hardened conspiracy theorists, may have reasonable fears about side-effects and are potentially open to persuasion, especially if their concerns are taken seriously by interlocuters they trust. Bu ... more

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Distribution and Reception of Conspiracy Theories and Mobilization Calls on Telegram: Combining Evidence from a Content Analysis and Survey During the Pandemic

Leyla Dogruel, Simon Kruschinski, Pablo Jost, Pascal Jürgens

Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 71, issue 3-4 (2023), pp. 230-247

"Despite increased academic attention’s focus on conspiracy theories on Telegram, existing research has two major limitations: (1) a lack of combined examination of the distribution and reception of conspiracy theories, and (2) insufficient understanding of the relationship between the reception o ... more

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Perceived Prevalence of Misinformation Fuels Worries About COVID-19: A Cross-Country, Multi-Method Investigation

Jörg Matthes, Nicoleta Corbu, Soyeon Jin et al.

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 16 (2023), pp. 3133-3156

"Data suggests that the majority of citizens in various countries came across ‘fake news’ during the COVID-19 pandemic. We test the relationship between perceived prevalence of misinformation and people’s worries about COVID-19. In Study 1, analyses of a survey across 17 countries indicate a p ... more

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Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach

Sabine Tan, Marissa K. L. E. (eds)

New York; London: Routledge (2023), xvi, 276 pp.

"Using a multimodal discourse analysis approach, this dynamic collection examines various discourses, modes and media in circulation during the early stages of the pandemic, and how these have impacted our daily lives in terms of the various meanings they express. Examples include how national and i ... more

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‘It is Guiding Us to Protect Ourselves’: A Qualitative Investigation Into Why Young People Engage with a Mass-Media HIV Education Campaign

Venetia Baker, Sarah Mulwa, Sophie Sarrassat, David Khanyile, Simon Cousens, Cherie Cawood, Isolde Birdthistle

Culture, Health & Sexuality, volume 25, issue 7 (2023), pp. 803-817

"This study explores how and why young people engage with MTV Shuga, a popular mass media campaign in South Africa, to understand what makes effective HIV edutainment. Young MTV Shuga viewers from the Eastern Cape, South Africa and their parents participated in remote individual interviews and focus ... more

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A Systematic Review of Communication Interventions for Countering Vaccine Misinformation

Hannah S. Whitehead, Clare E. French, Deborah M. Caldwell, Louise Letley, Sandra Mounier-Jack

Vaccine, volume 41, issue 5 (2023), pp. 1018-1034

"We conducted a systematic review to identify and describe communications-based strategies used to prevent and ameliorate the effect of mis- and disinformation on people’s attitudes and behaviours surrounding vaccination (objective 1) and examined their effectiveness (objective 2) [...] Of 2000 id ... more

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The Prevalence, Features, Influencing Factors, and Solutions for COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation: Systematic Review

Sihong Zhao, Simeng Hu, Xiaoyu Zhou et al.

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 ... more

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Journalistic role conceptions and performance in the global south: A comparison between Egypt and the UAE during COVID-19

Maha Abdulmajeed, Rasha El-Ibiary

International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 8 (2023), pp. 646-662

"Journalists in Egypt and the UAE have been differently challenged by the COVID-19 situation at multiple levels, (1) individual (2) work/routines and (3) media/organizational while covering COVID-19. Using the hierarchy of influences model, we analyze the differentiated journalists’ role conceptio ... more

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Alkoholismus, Drogenmissbrauch und Rausch in Film und Fernsehen: Bibliographie

Hans Jürgen Wulff, Martha-Lotta Körber, Ludger Kaczmarek

Westerkappeln (DE): DerWulff.de, erw. Neuausg. (2023), 115 pp.

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