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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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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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Promoting Conspiracy Theory: From AIDS to COVID-19
Deep 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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Nudging Knowledge: Tackling Health Misinformation in Humanitarian Settings Using Behavioral Science
Key Guides
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 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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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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Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiii, 240 pp.
"This topical volume illuminates ethical issues brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a broad range of case studies from different regions, it provides insights into the multiple and complex ways in which the pandemic has shaped media ethics. Chapters employ a wide range of innova
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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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Degrees of deception: The effects of different types of COVID-19 misinformation and the effectiveness of corrective information in crisis times
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1699-1715
"Responding to widespread concerns about misinformation’s impact on democracy, we conducted an experiment in which we exposed German participants to different degrees of misinformation on COVID-19 connected to politicized (immigration) and apolitical (runners) issues (N = 1,490). Our key findings
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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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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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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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Conspiracy theories in the time of COVID-19
London; New York: Routledge (2023), x, 237 pp.
"Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on the US and the UK. The book combines digital methods analysis of large datasets assembled from social media with politic
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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 Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xliv, 386 pp.
"The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge resource on the critical debates surrounding fake news and misinformation online. Spanning all continents and linking academic, journalistic, and educational communities, this collection offers authoritative cov
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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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COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2022), xix, 257 pp.
"The volume helps us deconstruct COVID-19 discourses on crisis communication and media developments focusing on three areas: Media viability, Framing and Health crisis communication. The chapters unpack issues on marginalisation, gender, media sustainability, credibility, priming, trust, sources, be
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Social Media Literacy: Fake News Consumption and Perception of COVID-19 in Nigeria
Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 9, issue 2138011 (2022), 14 pp.
"The emergence of social media in the late 90s resulted in information dissemination and consumption transformation. Social networking sites have increasingly been popular and appealing to youths, who often spend much time navigating across the platforms, exploiting the communication affordances. Wh
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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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