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A Retrospect on Young People and COVID-19 Discourse on TikTok

Crystal Abidin, Naomi Robinson

TikTok Cultures Research Network (TCRN);Curtin University, Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) (2023), 55 pp.

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COVID-19 vaccination: Exploring the behavioural determinants and interventions through a literature review

M. Baggio D. Dubois A. Alvergne D. R. Li Romaniuc, M. Krawczyk

Luxembourg: European Union (2023), 57 pp.

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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, ... more

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Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective

Michael Butter, Peter Knight (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 397 pp.

"Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world. Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists, ... more

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Classification of digital interventions, services and applications in health. A shared language to describe the uses of digital technology for health

Chinemerem Eyetan (coord.)

Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO), 2nd ed. (2023), vi, 56 pp.

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“How can I keep quiet?” Motivations to participate in vaccination communication on Facebook

Pavel Rodin

Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 48, issue 4 (2023), pp. 482-501

"Risk and crisis communication (RCC) is a complex constellation of multiple actors, platforms, and voices. It involves institutional actors but also laypeople. Participation by social media users can both facilitate and obstruct effective RCC. The present study draws on in-depth interviews with Swed ... more

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Demand of and Access to Health Messages Through Mass Media in the Rural Community of Eastern Ethiopia: A Mixed Method Study

Bushra Aliyi, Yadeta Dassie, Alemayehu Deressa et al.

Risk Management and Healthcare, issue 16 (2023), pp. 1859-1874

"Background: The demand for health-related information has increased dramatically in recent years. Media is crucial in reaching health messages to audiences, especially those who are distant and rural. Therefore, the study aimed to assess demands, access, and factors associated with access to health ... more

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Popularização da política de saúde na era Vargas

Isabella Maasberg, Ricarda Musser, Gunther Kunze (eds.)

Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz (2023), 119 pp.

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Pandemic, politics, and the safety of journalists: Downward spiral of press freedom in India

Sanviti Iyer, Mochish KS

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 ... more

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Conspiracy theories in the time of COVID-19

Clare Birchall, Peter Knight

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 ... more

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Information Ecosystem Preparedness for Health Emergency Response: What Can We Do to Communicate Better in the Next Crisis

Rocio Lopez Inigo, Alejandro Posada Bermudez, Nancy Wong

Internews;USAID (2023), 37 pp.

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Media & Mental Health: Using Mass Media to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness

Scott Parrott

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2023), viii, 166 pp.

"The mass media are an important source of information about mental health, yet television shows, news stories, social media posts, and other media fare often perpetuate stereotypes and misunderstandings about mental illness. For 70 years, scholars in media studies, psychology, sociology, and other ... more

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Efficacy of Radio Entertainment Education in Promoting Health Behavior: A Meta-Analysis

Pratiti Diddi, Sushma Kumble, Fuyuan Shen

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 387-407

"Radio-based entertainment education (EE) programs have long been a way to communicate health-related information, particularly in developing countries. To explore the effectiveness of these campaigns, we used meta-analysis to examine the results of 20 published studies on the effectiveness of healt ... more

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People vs. ‘god of plague’: Socialist China’s anti-zoonotic campaign media as environmental media

Yiman Wang

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 4, issue 1 (2023), pp. 147-166

"This article cross-pollinates environmental media studies with socialist China’s anti-snail fever campaign media, including two 1965 science education films, a 1961 song book, all entitled ‘Song wensheng’ (‘Sending away god of plague’), and a 1970 'Chijiao yisheng shouce' (‘The handbook ... more

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Who Are the Plotters Behind the Pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories in Google Search Results Across Five Key Target Countries of Russia’s Foreign Communication

Florian Toepfl, Daria Kravets, Anna Ryzhova, Arista Beseler

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 10 (2023), pp. 2033-2051

"This article advances extant research that has audited search algorithms for misinformation in four respects. Firstly, this is the first misinformation audit not to implement a national but a cross-national research design. Secondly, it retrieves results not in response to the most popular query te ... more

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Media, Social Pressure, and Combating Misinformation: Experimental Evidence on Mass Media and Contraception Use in Burkina Faso

Rachel Glennerster, Joanna Murray, Victor Pouliquen

J-PAL Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (2023), 45 pp.

"Using a two-level randomized experiment covering 5 million people in Burkina Faso, we examine the impact on family planning knowledge and behavior of both general exposure to mass media (800 women receive radios in status quo areas) and an intensive evidence-based family planning campaign (8 of 16 ... more

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Exploring the Contextual Factors of Religious Leader Participation in Health Communication: Evidence from a Qualitative Study in Sierra Leone

Hanna Luetke Lanfer, Constanze Rossmann, Sorie Ibrahim Kargbo

Journal of Religion and Health, volume 62 (2023), pp. 1695-1715

"As there are many and sometimes ambivalent intersections of health and religion, strategic collaborations with religious opinion leaders in health campaigns have been increasingly explored. Despite the known influence of distinct contextual factors within emergency and non-emergency settings, exist ... more

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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

Michaels Hameleers, Edda Humprecht, Judith Möller, Jula Lühring

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 ... more

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Inequity Driven Mistrust: Its Impacts to Infodemic Management and Health Response and What to Do About It

Alejandro Posada, Rocio Lopez Inigo, Majid Beesyna

Internews;USAID (2023), 45 pp.

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Indigenous youth, health, wellness, and social media: A scoping review

Catherine Fournier

Institut National de Santé Publique Québec (2023), v, 55 pp.

"Research into the use of social media by Indigenous youth and their health and wellness is an emerging field. Of the twenty-six publications selected, over three quarters were published in 2015 or later. Almost half the studies in the corpus—eleven in all—took place in Canada. They were mainly ... more