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Media, Social Pressure, and Combating Misinformation: Experimental Evidence on Mass Media and Contraception Use in Burkina Faso
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
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Perceived Prevalence of Misinformation Fuels Worries About COVID-19: A Cross-Country, Multi-Method Investigation
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
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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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Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda
Journal of Health Communication, volume 28, issue suppl. 2 (2023), pp. 49-60
"Misinformation can decrease public confidence in vaccines, and reduce vaccination intent and uptake. One strategy for countering these negative impacts comes from inoculation theory. Similar to biological vaccination, inoculation theory posits that exposure to a weakened form of misinformation can
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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
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
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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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‘It is Guiding Us to Protect Ourselves’: A Qualitative Investigation Into Why Young People Engage with a Mass-Media HIV Education Campaign
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
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Indigenous youth, health, wellness, and social media: A scoping review
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
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Covid-19 Cure Perceptions and Media Use in India
Journal of Communication in Healthcare, volume 16, issue 4 (2023), pp. 358-369
"Background: During the early phases of Covid-19, social media platforms became a significant source of misinformation, and India emerged as a global hotspot. Studies show that ‘miracle cure’ for preventing and treating Covid-19 infection has been a prominent topic of misinformation. This study
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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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COVID-19 and the Constructions of Africa in African News Media
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
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Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach
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
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Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives
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
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People vs. ‘god of plague’: Socialist China’s anti-zoonotic campaign media as environmental media
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
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Alkoholismus, Drogenmissbrauch und Rausch in Film und Fernsehen: Bibliographie
Westerkappeln (DE): DerWulff.de, erw. Neuausg. (2023), 115 pp.
Promoting Conspiracy Theory: From AIDS to COVID-19
Deep Insights
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
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