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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
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
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Promoting Conspiracy Theory: From AIDS to COVID-19
Top 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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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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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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Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective
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,
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The effect of communication and disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic
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
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A scoping review of digital health interventions for combating COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation
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
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Misinformation Literacy of COVID-19 Digital News in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda
African Journalism Studies, volume 44, issue 2 (2023), pp. 116-133
"Amid a rise of misinformation worldwide, this paper examines digital misinformation literacy as it relates to COVID-19 news in East Africa. The study is grounded in inoculation theory and contributes to the body of scholarship examining misinformation literacy beyond the Western world. Data came fr
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Technologien der Krise: Die Covid-19-Pandemie als Katalysator neuer Formen der Vernetzung
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 199 pp.
Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxxi, 267 pp.
"The book evaluates unique civic challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities for media worldwide, exploring pandemic social norms that media promote or discourage, and how media serve as instruments of social control and resistance, or of cooperation and representation. These chapters raise sign
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Knowledge and Practice of Safety Protocols among Journalists Serving as Frontline Workers in the COVID-19 Fight in Ebonyi State, Nigeria
International Journal of Ebola, AIDS, HIV and Infectious Diseases and Immunity, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 20-37
"This study investigated the knowledge and practice of safety protocols among journalists serving as frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19 in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. Structured questionnaire served as instrument for data collection. The popula
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More than just collateral damage. Ramifications of the pandemic for freedom of the press
Publizistik, volume 67 (2022), pp. 31–50
"Confronted with a situation that was new to everyone, world leaders sought the best way to contain the pandemic caused by the coronavirus. The measures introduced, with lockdowns and curfews, affected fundamental rights such as freedom of movement and assembly, with implications for freedom of expr
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COVID-19, Vaccination, and Conspiracies: A Micro-Level Qualitative Study in Islamabad, Pakistan
Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, volume 95, issue 2 (2022), pp. 177-190
"Although vaccination is the only hope to fight against COVID-19, existing vaccine hesitancy is a thought-provoking phenomenon. Significantly, vaccine hesitancy is worsening the situation in Pakistan, leading to an increased number of COVID cases. In this context, this study aims to examine people
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Lugara #2: Humanitarian Bulletin, April 1-30, 2022
Internews (2022), 8 pp.
"The Lugara Humanitarian Bulletin is an output of Internews in South Sudan. Under the global Rooted in Trust project, Internews in South Sudan aims to address concerns of diverse communities, including IDPs, refugees, cattle communities, youth, through online and face to face social listening." (Pag
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Reporting the Covid-19 Pandemic: Trauma on Our Own Doorstep
Digital Journalism, volume 10, issue 6 (2022), pp. 997-1014
"The political and media rhetoric of the pandemic is that of conflict and a call to arms in face of a hidden enemy. But this is not a distant war where journalists are parachuted in to report on the action for a few weeks and then fly home. It is on our own doorstep. Many of those covering the globa
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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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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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Effect of a social media-based counselling intervention in countering fake news on COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria
Health Promotion International, volume 37, issue 2: daab140 (2022), 10 pp.
"The aim of this study was to understand the impact of counselling in countering fake news-related COVID-19 vaccine. We conducted two separate experiments. In the first experiment, we exposed the treatment group to fake news on COVID-19 vaccine through a WhatsApp group chat while the control group w
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