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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

Patricia Rossini, Antonis Kalogeropoulos

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 ... more

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Who Are the Plotters Behind the Pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories in Google Search Results Across Five Key Target Countries of Russia’s Foreign Communication

Florian Toepfl, Daria Kravets, Anna Ryzhova, Arista Beseler

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 10 (2023), pp. 2033-2051

"This article advances extant research that has audited search algorithms for misinformation in four respects. Firstly, this is the first misinformation audit not to implement a national but a cross-national research design. Secondly, it retrieves results not in response to the most popular query te ... more

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Promoting Conspiracy Theory: From AIDS to COVID-19
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Nocili Nattrass

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 ... more

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The Alternative Truth Kept Hidden From Us: The Effects of Multimodal Disinformation Disseminated by Ordinary Citizens and Alternative Hyper-Partisan Media. Evidence From the US and India

Michael Hameleers, Darian Harff, Désirée Schmuck

Digital Journalism (2023), 22 pp.

"The affordances of social media potentially amplify the effects of disinformation by offering the possibility to present deceptive content and sources in credible and native ways. We investigate the effects of two aspects related to the dissemination and modality of digital disinformation: (In)auth ... more

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Covid-19 Cure Perceptions and Media Use in India

Areiba Arif, Rama Mohana R. Turaga

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 ... more

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Perceived Prevalence of Misinformation Fuels Worries About COVID-19: A Cross-Country, Multi-Method Investigation

Jörg Matthes, Nicoleta Corbu, Soyeon Jin et al.

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 ... more

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Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective

Michael Butter, Peter Knight (eds.)

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, ... more

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Chatbots in Humanitarian Contexts: Learning from Practitioner Experiences

Becky Kazansky, Olivia Johnson, Bárbara Paes

Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC);The Engine Room (2023), 31 pp.

"Since the mid-2010s, chatbots have grown in usage and popularity across the humanitarian sector. While this usage has gained traction, there is scarce information on the collective successes, risks, and trade-offs of this automation. This research addresses this gap, documenting chatbot deployments ... more

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Uma rádio universitária reconfigurada: A experiência da emissora criada pelo educador Paulo Freire

Giovana Borges Mesquita, Gustavo Cabrera Christiansen

Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación, volume 22, issue 44 (2023), pp. 204-215

"O artigo é um relato de experiência da rádio universitária brasileira Paulo Freire, que em 2023 completa 60 anos, analisando como ela se reconfigurou, reinventando suas rotinas profissionais, formatos e modos de circulação, para enfrentar a desinformação sobre a Covid-19. A emissora AM tran ... more

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The Türkiye–Syria earthquake response six months on: Lessons on communication, community engagement and accountability

London: CDAC Network (2023), 9 pp.

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Elevating the Uses of Storytelling Methods Within Indigenous Health Research: A Critical, Participatory Scoping Review

Kendra L. Rieger, Mabel Horton, Sherry Copenace, Marlyn Bennett, Mandy Buss et al.

International Journal of Qualitative Methods, volume 22 (2023), 24 pp.

"There is a profoundly troubling history of research being done on Indigenous peoples without regard for their priorities and accompanying calls to decolonize health research. Storytelling methods can privilege Indigenous voices in research. Indigenous people’s knowledge systems have existed for m ... more

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The effect of communication and disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cécile Jacob, Pierre Hausemer, Adam Zagoni-Bogsch, Audra Diers-Lawson

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 ... more

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A Retrospect on Young People and COVID-19 Discourse on TikTok

Crystal Abidin, Naomi Robinson

TikTok Cultures Research Network (TCRN);Curtin University, Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) (2023), 55 pp.

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Distance Education for Teacher Training: Modes, Models, and Methods

Mary Burns

Washington, DC: Education Development Center (2023), v, 444 pp.

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Review of the OECD DAC criteria for evaluating humanitarian action: A mapping of literature, guidance and practice

Jo-Hannah Lavey, Christina Northey, David Poulton et al.

London: ALNAP/ODI (2023), 108 pp.

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Governing the Interlinkages Between the SDGs: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges

Anita Breuer, Daniele Malerba, Srinivasa Srigiri, Pooja Balasubramanian (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 247 pp.

"The book [...] examines the dedicated policies targeting the SDGs, as well as political and institutional drivers of synergies and trade-offs between the SDGs in selected key areas – both cross-nationally and in specific country contexts. Their analysis moves beyond the focus on links between SDG ... more

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A scoping review of digital health interventions for combating COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation

Katarzyna Czerniak, Raji Pillai, Abhi Parmar, Abhi, Kavita Ramnath, Joseph Krocker, Sahiti Myneni

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 ... more

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The Far-Right Smokescreen: Environmental Conspiracy and Culture Wars on Brazilian YouTube

Débora Salles, Priscila Muniz de Medeiros, Rose Marie Santini, Carlos Eduardo Barros

Social Media + Society, volume 9, issue 3 (2023), 22 pp.

"Holding the greatest area of rainforest in the world, Brazil has seen the adoption of a far-right anti-environmental agenda under the administration of Jair Bolsonaro. This agenda was backed by a transnational infrastructure of right-wing media outlets on online platforms, including the conservativ ... more

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Technology in education: A tool on whose terms?

Paris: UNESCO (2023), xxv, 526 pp.

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Changing behavioral responses to heat risk in a warming world: How can communication approaches be improved?

Mc Loughlin, Niall, Candice Howarth, Ganga Shreedhar

WIREs Climate Change, volume 14, issue 2, e819 (2023), 19 pp.

"Heat risks, such as those associated with heatwaves, are increasing in frequency, severity, and duration due to climate change. The ways in which people around the globe perceive and respond to heat risks are now of great importance to reduce a range of negative health outcomes. A growing body of l ... more

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