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Pandemics in the Age of Social Media: Information and Misinformation in Developing Nations
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xviii, 191 pp.
"This book offers insights into social media practices and challenges in developing nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering different aspects of social media during the pandemic, the book offers new frameworks, concepts, tools and techniques for integrating social media to support national de
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“We don’t believe in [the] Coronavirus; we believe in Allah. Whatever happens, it happens from Allah”: Pakistani media’s response to countering conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic
Newspaper Research Journal (2024), [no pag.]
"This study examines the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic by the four leading newspapers of Pakistan—Dawn, The News, Daily Times and The Nation—when they were responsible for informing and educating the public during a health crisis hit by conspiracy theories. The researchers utilized content a
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Have people ‘had enough of experts’? The impact of populism and pandemic misinformation on institutional trust in comparative perspective
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 22 pp.
"Public trust in institutions is a key prerequisite for effective crisis management. However, the rise of populism and misinformation in recent years made it increasingly difficult to maintain institutional trust. Despite this recognition, we still lack a systematic understanding of how exposure to
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News Distortion in Times of Crises: Covid-19 Case in the Arab Media
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5222-5246
"This article investigates news distortion within the Arab media ecosystem, as manifested on Arab media Facebook pages and perceived by Arab journalists during the COVID-19 pandemic. A textual analysis was conducted on 6 news Facebook pages affiliated with major local media channels in 6 Arab countr
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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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Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop it
New York: Columbia University Press (2024), xii, 357 pp.
"Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century’s greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what makes misinformation so potent and why it can spread so rapidly. In Falsehoods Fly, a leading cognitive scientist and philoso
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Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 236 pp.
"This book tackles the infodemic—the rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramifications—triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on four Asian societies, the book compares and analyzes the spread of COVID-19 misinformation
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Fake News, Information Disorder in the Digital Age
Prishtina: [author] (2023), 140 pp.
"The book is organized into four parts. Part I presents the phenomenon of information disorder, as well as explains why the term “fake news” should be replaced with adequate terms, depending on the method and type of manipulation. Also, there are pieces focusing on ChatGPT and the possible impac
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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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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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Nudging Knowledge: Tackling Health Misinformation in Humanitarian Settings Using Behavioral Science
Key Guidance
Nairobi: Busara (2023), 46 pp.
"This guide does not require prior knowledge or experience in behavioral science. It will be relevant for you if you are an actor in a humanitarian setting look to: 1. Design a Theory of Change for a program aiming to change people’s beliefs or behaviors: This guide can be used by several actors.
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The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 246 pp.
"In a cross-platform analysis of Google Web Search, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, 4chan and TikTok, we found that hyperpartisan web operators, alternative influencers and ambivalent commentators are in ascendency. The book can be read as a form of platform criticism. It puts on disp
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Distribution and Reception of Conspiracy Theories and Mobilization Calls on Telegram: Combining Evidence from a Content Analysis and Survey During the Pandemic
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 71, issue 3-4 (2023), pp. 230-247
"Despite increased academic attention’s focus on conspiracy theories on Telegram, existing research has two major limitations: (1) a lack of combined examination of the distribution and reception of conspiracy theories, and (2) insufficient understanding of the relationship between the reception o
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The Psychological Impacts and Message Features of Health Misinformation: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials
European Psychologist, volume 28, issue 3 (2023), pp. 162-172
"What does health misinformation look like, and what is its impact? We conducted a systematic review of 45 articles containing 64 randomized controlled trials (RCTs; N = 37,552) on the impact of health misinformation on behaviors and their psychological antecedents. We applied a planetary health per
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How to Build an Infodemic Insights Report in Six Steps
World Health Organization (WHO);UNICEF (2023), v, 73 pp.
"This manual provides a quick overview of the steps required to develop an infodemic insights report that can be used during an emergency response or for routine health programming (where so-called low-level infodemics may be more common). The steps are: 1. Choose the question that infodemic managem
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Don’t Talk to Strangers? The Role of Network Composition, WhatsApp Groups, and Partisanship in Explaining Beliefs in Misinformation About COVID-19 in Brazil
Journal of Information Technology & Politics (2023), 18 pp.
"The spread of disinformation has been a topic of heightened concern, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the response to a public health crisis relies on the ability for public officials to inform citizens. Using a representative two-wave panel of internet users in Brazil, we examine the
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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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