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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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Communicating About Vaccination-Related Risks

Lauren Vulanovic

Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2023), viii, 74 pp.

"The objective of this document is to help professional health communicators (PHCs) in the countries of the Region of the Americas improve their local and national communications on vaccine-related risks, to strengthen trust in immunization, and ultimately to increase uptake of new and routine vacci ... 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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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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Covid-19 Cure Perceptions and Media Use in India

Areiba Arif, Rama Mohana R. Turaga

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 ... 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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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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Elevating the Uses of Storytelling Methods Within Indigenous Health Research: A Critical, Participatory Scoping Review

Kendra L. Rieger, Mabel Horton, Sherry Copenace, Marlyn Bennett, Mandy Buss et al.

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 ... more

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The effect of communication and disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cécile Jacob, Pierre Hausemer, Adam Zagoni-Bogsch, Audra Diers-Lawson

European Parliament (2023), 78 pp.

"This study analyses how governments, public health experts and other professionals communicated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of these communication strategies. It investigates COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation practices, and how these practices were addressed in the Europea ... more

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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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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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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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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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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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Broadcasting During COVID-19: Community Language Radio and Listener Well-Being

Ambrin Hasnain, Amanda E. Krause, John Hajek, Anya Lloyd-Smith, Laura Lori

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, issue 2 (2022), pp. 227-247

"Community language radio is known to provide information and social connection for community members. This article examines the role of community language radio in Australia during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Drawing on data from interviews with four presenters at a community language radio stati ... more

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The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Media and Communication Studies

Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Bartlomiej Lódzki (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xvi, 238 pp.

"The book answers two interrelated questions: how media and communication reality changed during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how media and communication were effectively studied during this time. The book presents changes in media and communication in three areas: media production, ... more

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COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication

Carol Azungi Dralega, Angella Napakol (eds.)

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2022), xix, 257 pp.

"The volume helps us deconstruct COVID-19 discourses on crisis communication and media developments focusing on three areas: Media viability, Framing and Health crisis communication. The chapters unpack issues on marginalisation, gender, media sustainability, credibility, priming, trust, sources, be ... more

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Digital Media for Young People in Myanmar: Breaking Taboo and Discussing Sexual and Reproductive Health

London: BBC Media Action (2022), 2 pp.

"BBC Media Action’s innovative sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) project - Ma Shet Ne (Don’t be shy!) – was designed to support young people living in Yangon to access quality information and realise their rights. Research findings show that young people are highly engaged with the ... more

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Technologien der Krise: Die Covid-19-Pandemie als Katalysator neuer Formen der Vernetzung

Dennis Krämer, Joschka Haltaufderheide, Jochen Vollmann (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 199 pp.

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