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Measuring Impact of Storyline Engagement on Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Norms: A Digital Evaluation of an Online Health-Focused Serial Drama in West Africa
Journal of Global Health, volume 12, issue 4039 (2022), 10 pp.
"Cest la Vie!" (CLV) is a serial drama that entertains, educates, and promotes positive health behaviors and social change for West African audiences. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if watching the CLV Season 2 series online had an impact on people’s health knowledge, attitudes, and nor
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A critical analysis of journalists’ freedom of expression and access to information while reporting on COVID-19 issues: A case of selected Arab countries
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 193-212
"The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which Arab Governments limited freedom of expression and access to information for journalists while they reported on COVID-19-related issues. Design/methodology/approach: Focus group discussions were conducted with 20 journalists from Egypt
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability: Perspectives from Stakeholders, Communicators and Audiences
London: CDAC Network (2022), 62 pp.
"This study sought to identify changes, if any, to the communication and community engagement landscape as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It did not aim to evaluate communication, community engagement and accountability (CCEA) during the pandemic but, rather, aimed to bring together some of the
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Fake news during the pandemic times: A systematic literature review using PRISMA
Open Information Science, volume 6 (2022), pp. 49-60
"The purpose of this systematic literature review is to review the major studies about misinformation and fake news during COVID-19 on social media. A total of 144 articles studies were retrieved from ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Web of Science databases and 20 relevant articles were selected using th
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Attributing Public Ignorance in Vaccination Narratives
Social Science & Medicine, issue 307: 115152 (2022), 11 pp.
"Examples from Sierra Leone, Uganda, and India show how ‘ignorant public’ framings are used as explanation for vaccine hesitancy through assigned roles for institutions and publics, and the consequences this narrative has for vaccination encounters. These examples are based on ethnographic field
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Understanding the Infodemic of Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories
Russia in Global Affairs, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 83-104
"The article analyzes the QAnon phenomenon and the anti-vaxxer movement of COVID-19 deniers as typological manifestations of conspiratorial “alternative rationality.” A number of hypotheses have been proposed: during a pandemic and a parallel infodemic, conspiracy thinking quickly becomes transb
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How Can Media and Communication Support Somalis Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic?
London: BBC Media Action (2022), 15 pp.
"Our work in 2020 and 2021 focused on different aspects of COVID-19 to provide audiences with accurate information and appropriate strategies to deal with the pandemic. This media content contributed to increased knowledge, changed attitudes and positive behaviour change to counter the damaging effe
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Role of Information Sources in Vaccination Uptake: Insights from a Cross-Sectional Household Survey in Sierra Leone, 2019
Global Health: Science and Practice, volume 10, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-12
"Key findings: exposure to vaccination information from faith leaders and health facilities was associated with increased likelihood of vaccination uptake; the significant association between exposure to a greater number of immunization information sources and increased likelihood of vaccination upt
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Use of Community Engagement Interventions to Improve Child Immunisation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Campbell Systematic Reviews, volume 18, issue e1253 (2022), 118 pp.
"This systematic review examines the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community engagement interventions on outcomes related to childhood immunisation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and identifies contextual, design and implementation features that may be associated with effectiv
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Manual for Designing Communication for Vaccination Campaigns in Kazakhstan
Nur-Sultan: UNICEF Kazakstan (2022), 46 pp.
"This communication for immunization manual is designed to give step-by-step information on how to design and implement an immunization communication strategy. It guides the reader from creating messages and identifying potential communication barriers, to talking to the media and different stages o
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COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication
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
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Salience of MTV-Shuga, an Edutainment Programme, and Adolescents’ Engagement with Sexual and Reproductive Health Information in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, volume 30, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-12
"This paper examines the extent to which an edutainment programme, MTV-Shuga, was reported to influence young people’s engagement with sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In 2019 we conducted eight community-based screenings of MTV-Shuga episodes
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Digital Media for Behavior Change: Review of an Emerging Field of Study
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, volume 19, issue 9129 (2022), 14 pp.
"The purpose of the current paper is to provide an overview and describe methods in this emerging field, present use cases, describe a future agenda, and raise central questions to be addressed in future digital health research for behavior change. Digital media for behavior change employs three mai
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Message Testing in India for COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: What Appeal and What Messenger Are Most Persuasive?
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, volume 18, issue 6 (2022), 13 pp.
"Few studies have examined the relationships between the different aspects of vaccination communication and vaccine attitudes. We aimed to evaluate the influence of three unique messaging appeal framings of vaccination from two types of messengers on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in India. We surveyed
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Turning Social Listening Data Into Action: Barriers and Recommendations Observed Through a COVID-19 Rumor Response
Internews (2022), 23 pp.
"[...] seven key informant interviews were conducted with humanitarian organizations that have been at the forefront of social listening projects throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Although we anchored the research in the COVID-19 response, our findings suggest that the uses and impacts of social lis
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Use of Digital Media for Family Planning Information by Women and Their Social Networks in Kenya: A Qualitative Study in Peri-Urban Nairobi
Frontiers in Sociology, volume 7 (2022), 10 pp.
"Access to information about family planning (FP) continues to have financial, physical and social barriers among young women living in Kenya. This paper draws on social norms theory to explore how young women and their social networks access FP information on digital media (e.g., WhatsApp, websites
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Children and Media Worldwide in a Time of a Pandemic
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2022), vi, 242 pp.
"This edited volume focuses on the lived experiences of children during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, their knowledge and emotional reactions, the adjustments they made in their everyday lives, and the strengths and skills they developed in response. A central theme
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Broadcasting During COVID-19: Community Language Radio and Listener Well-Being
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
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The Impact of a Direct to Beneficiary Mobile Communication Program on Reproductive and Child Health Outcomes: A Randomised Controlled Trial in India
BMJ Global Health, issue 6: e008838 (2022), 21 pp.
"Kilkari is the largest direct-to-beneficiary mobile communication programme in the world and has reached over 10 million women and their families across 13 states in India. Our study is the first randomised controlled trial conducted to date of a beneficiary mobile communication programme at scale.
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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Nigerian Journalists Towards Safety Protocols in an Insecure and Covid-19 Pandemic Nation
Melting Pot, volume 6, issue 2 (2022), pp. 87-102
"This paper examines the knowledge, attitudes and practices of Nigerian journalists towards safety protocols especially within security and COVID-19 in Nigeria. The study adopted the survey methodology and relied on questionnaire as instrument of primary data collection. The population of the study
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