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Global Pandemics in the Media: An African Perspective
Dakar: CODESRIA (2026), ?? pp.
"[The editors] have expertly put together a tour de force collection of African perspectives on the varied ways in which journalists, communicators, citizens, government communicators and other stakeholders mediated the recent global pandemics. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a critical juncture, the
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"The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has been accompanied by targeted health disinformation just hours after the WHO emergency declaration. Our report analyses the narratives, actors and dynamics of this information manipulation – from bioweapons claims an
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Disinformation Campaigns in Africa: Actors, Consequences, and Responses
New York: Bloomsbury Publishing (2026), 262 pp.
"Centering disinformation campaigns in Africa, this book examines typologies of false and misleading information and assesses the devastating consequences of disinformation. Admire Mare and Allen Munoriyarwa cover the key actors, consequences of, and responses to combat disinformation campaigns th
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Disinformation: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis
Deep Insights
Cham: Springer (2026), xvi, 654 pp.
"This volume provides a multidisciplinary analysis of disinformation and strategies for tackling it. Authored by a diverse group of scholars and experts, chapters in this volume are divided into three thematic sections. The first section delves into disinformation from various disciplinary perspecti
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Studying visual disinformation: A computational literature review of current issues, trends and research methods of a growing field
Journal of Visual Political Communication, volume 12, issue 2 (2025), pp. 167-191
"The rise of visual mis/disinformation presents a significant challenge to democratic societies, as misleading visual content increasingly influences public opinion and decision-making. This study aims to comprehensively map the current state of research on visual mis/disinformation, providing insig
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Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid Media: Constructed Facts, Contested Truths
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xiii, 243 pp.
"This volume examines how a new hybrid mediascape represents and contributes to the construction of facts and knowledge in relation to science, environment, and climate controversies, providing a new, critical perspective to the bourgeoning field of science and environment communication. Arguing tha
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Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2025), xiv, 278 pp.
"Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons delves into the complex issue of misinformation in our daily lives. The book synthesizes three scholarly traditions - everyday life, misinformation, and governing knowledge commons - to present 10 case studies of online and offline communities
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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, volume 22, issue 1 (2025), pp. 113-130
"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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Disseminating reliable health information through participatory radio programming on Indigenous language media: A study on selected community radio stations in rural Ghana
Journal of Alternative & Community Media, volume 9, issue 2 (2024), pp. 217-236
"This study is aimed to ascertain the role community media plays in the dissemination of reliable health information for rural community dwellers. By sampling three community radio stations in rural Ghana, the study presents a new perspective on how health dis/misinformation can be debunked through
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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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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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“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, volume 46, issue 1 (2024), pp. 6-28
"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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