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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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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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"Esta Guía del Panorama de los Medios brinda una instantánea de los medios en Colombia, incluidas las audiencias, los productores, las preferencias de los diferentes grupos de la comunidad, la cultura de las comunicaciones y los idiomas asociados con los medios. Da una idea del papel de los medios
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Colombia Media Landscape Guide
CDAC Network; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 24 pp.
"This Media Landscape Guide provides a snapshot of the media in Colombia, including the audiences, the producers, the preferences of different groups in the community, the communications culture, and the languages associated with the media. It gives an insight into the role of media in development w
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Mapping the Public Voice for Development: Natural Language Processing of Social Media Text Data
Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2022), xi, 114 pp.
"This report aims to introduce techniques and procedures of NLP (Natural Language Processing), the computational preparation and analysis of text data, to map the public voice and aid development. First, the report introduces essential concepts of communication and elaborates on the theoretical foun
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Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cham: Springer (2022), 283 pp.
"The chapters here explore the impact, especially of Covid-19, on the media while unpacking the complexities, intersections and dynamics surrounding technological, political and economic developments and trends. Similarly, media discourses on journalism practice, audience narratives and news discour
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Comunicación solidaria en el capitalismo digital: Teorías, metodologías y prácticas
Barcelona: Gedisa (2022), 157 pp.
"El presente libro realiza una aproximación a la Comunicación Solidaria Digital tal y como está tomando forma en el capitalismo digital o de plataformas. A partir de una aproximación teórico-metodológica y del estudio de casos significativos, se proponen vías para pensar este campo específic
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Infodemics and Health Misinformation: A Systematic Review of Reviews
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, volume 100, issue 9 (2022), pp. 544-561
"Our search identified 31 systematic reviews, of which 17 were published. The proportion of health-related misinformation on social media ranged from 0.2% to 28.8%. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram are critical in disseminating the rapid and far-reaching information. The most negative conseq
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Israeli Information Policy, COVID-19 and the Ultra-Orthodox Haredim
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 45-67
"Against the background of the COVID-19 crisis in Israel, the country’s ultra-orthodox population, the Haredim, were faced with seemingly insuperable dilemmas of compromising their religious standards for the sake of dealing with the virus. The government launched a public relations campaign to pe
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Myth and Misinformation on COVID-19 Vaccine: The Possible Impact on Vaccination Refusal Among People of Northeast Ethiopia: A Community-Based Research
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy Journal, volume 15 (2022), pp. 1859-1868
"To prevent the spread of COVID-19 and carry out a successful vaccination program especially in low-income countries, people must have faith on scientists and health experts. The most significant challenge to vaccination programs' efficacy is now regarded to be a lack of information and trust in imm
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"This programme and meeting document contains details and reflections on the Communication and Information Programme that developed activities such as the promotion of access to credible and reliable information on the pandemic, journalists' safety, media development, media and information literacy
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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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The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Media and Communication Studies
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,
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Audience Engagement with COVID-19 News: The Impact of Lockdown and Live Coverage, and the Role of Polarization
Journalism Studies, volume 23, issue 5-6 (2022), pp. 569-587
"Existing research on media and the COVID-19 pandemic is largely based on quantitative data, focused on digital media, limited to single-country studies, and often West-centred. As such, it has limited capacity to provide a holistic account of the causes and consequences of audience engagement with
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Infodemic Management Using Digital Information and Knowledge Cocreation to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Case Study from Ghana
JMIR Infodemiology, volume 2, issue 2: e37134 (2022), 10 pp.
"This paper describes an infodemic management system workflow based on digital data collection, qualitative methodology, and human-centered systems to support the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Ghana with examples of system implementation. Methods: The infodemic management system was developed by the H
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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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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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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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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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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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