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Threats, Disinformation, and Regulations in the European Digital Environment
New York: Bloomsbury Academic (2026), xii, 252 pp.
"In this edited volume, contributors explore the various threats-both security- and (dis)information-related-that are present within the European digital environment, along with the subsequent regulations imposed across the region in response to these threats. Due to the fluctuating evolution of EU-
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Vaccination Communication Strategies and Uptake in Africa: A Systematic Review
Vaccines, volume 12, issue 1333 (2024), 31 pp.
"African countries experience high rates of infectious diseases that are mostly preventable by vaccination. Despite the risks of infections and other adverse outcomes, vaccination coverage in the African region remains significantly low. Poor vaccination knowledge is a contributory factor, and effec
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Doctors for the truth: Latin American antivaccine oppositional cultures on Telegram
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 15 pp.
"The antivaccine hesitancy movement represents a challenge to public policy and platform regulations. During COVID-19, various Latin American antivaccine groups clashed with official sanitary initiatives. Despite many responses, little progress has been made in reaching these groups to transform the
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The Power of Trust: Countering Vaccine Hesitancy and Misinformation in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru
Internews (2024), 19 pp.
"Internews designed “The Power of Trust” to strengthen intercultural health networks and provide information to build trust around COVID-19 vaccines. Over 11 months, Internews and local partners continuously listened to the information needs of the communities. In response, we developed forums i
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Gestion de la communication publique dans une situation de crise sanitaire mondiale: Cas de la Covid-19 en Côte d'Ivoire, 2020-2022
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 173 pp.
"Le 11 mars 2020, la Côte d'Ivoire enregistrait son premier cas confirmé de personne atteinte de COVID-19. Dès lors à l'instar de nombreux pays dans le monde, plusieurs actions ont alors été entreprises par le gouvernement ivoirien pour apporter une riposte à la crise. Cette riposte nationale
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Social Media, Youth, and the Global South: Comparative Perspectives
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xix, 292 pp.
This book illuminates the complex relationship between social media, identity, and youth in the Global South. By examining the profound impact on the psychosocial well-being and economic prospects of young people across diverse regions, the collection present empirical evidence from scholars spannin
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“How can I keep quiet?” Motivations to participate in vaccination communication on Facebook
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 48, issue 4 (2023), pp. 482-501
"Risk and crisis communication (RCC) is a complex constellation of multiple actors, platforms, and voices. It involves institutional actors but also laypeople. Participation by social media users can both facilitate and obstruct effective RCC. The present study draws on in-depth interviews with Swed
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Communicating About Vaccination-Related Risks
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
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The Prevalence, Features, Influencing Factors, and Solutions for COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation: Systematic Review
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, volume 9, issue e40201 (2023), 23 pp.
"This review aims to synthesize the global evidence on misinformation related to COVID-19 vaccines, including its prevalence, features, influencing factors, impacts, and solutions for combating misinformation. We performed a systematic review by searching 5 peer-reviewed databases (PubMed, Embase, W
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Faith 'n' science
Internews; IMA World Health (2023), 14 pp.
"A majority of communities in sub–Saharan Africa subscribe to religion which is part of the people’s way of life. At the center of religion are religious leaders whom communities trust and consult on various issues beyond faith and religion. By partnering with these revered figures and building
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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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A Systematic Review of Communication Interventions for Countering Vaccine Misinformation
Vaccine, volume 41, issue 5 (2023), pp. 1018-1034
"We conducted a systematic review to identify and describe communications-based strategies used to prevent and ameliorate the effect of mis- and disinformation on people’s attitudes and behaviours surrounding vaccination (objective 1) and examined their effectiveness (objective 2) [...] Of 2000 id
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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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Persuasive COVID-19 Vaccination Campaigns on Facebook and Nationwide Vaccination Coverage in Ukraine, India, and Pakistan
Plos Global Public Health, volume 3, issue 9 (2023), 18 pp.
"Social media platforms have a wide and influential reach, and as such provide anopportunity to increase vaccine uptake. To date, there is no large-scale, robust evidence on the offline effects of online messaging campaigns. We aimed to test whether pre-tested, persuasive messaging campaigns from UN
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E-Participation in Africa: Literature Review
Bonn; Addis Ababa: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); DataCipation Project (2022), 28 pp.
"E-participation is the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) or digital technologies to involve citizens in public decision-making with the goal of empowering citizens and for the benefit of society as a whole. It is part of e-governance, a term that refers to the use of ICTs in
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