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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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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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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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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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Conspiracy theories in the time of COVID-19

Clare Birchall, Peter Knight

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 ... more

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COVID-19 vaccination: Exploring the behavioural determinants and interventions through a literature review

M. Baggio D. Dubois A. Alvergne D. R. Li Romaniuc, M. Krawczyk

Luxembourg: European Union (2023), 57 pp.

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Digital fit: Influencia de las redes sociales en la alimentación y en el aspecto físico de los menores

Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE;UNIR (2023), 41 pp.

"Las conclusiones generales y aplicables a toda la muestra, independientemente de su edad, sexo y comunidad autónoma, son: 1. TikTok se posiciona como la red social en donde los menores siguen a más influencers, seguida de YouTube e Instagram. 2. El tipo de influencer más seguido son los gamers, ... more

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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 ... more

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Classification of digital interventions, services and applications in health. A shared language to describe the uses of digital technology for health

Chinemerem Eyetan (coord.)

Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO), 2nd ed. (2023), vi, 56 pp.

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The Space Between Us: Understanding Trust, Communication and Collaboration Between Media and Humanitarian Organizations in Public Health Emergencies

Rocio Lopez Inigo, Wayne Sharpe, Katherina Thomas

Internews;USAID (2023), 32 pp.

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Hold the Phone! A Cross-National Analysis of Women's Education, Mobile Phones, and HIV Infections in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 1990–2018

Aarushi Bhandari, Rebekah Burroway

Social Science & Medicine, issue 334 (2023), pp. 116217 ff.

"Despite remarkable progress in the fight against HIV, the number of new infections remains unacceptably high, epidemics continue to grow in certain communities, and therefore AIDS continues to be one of the deadliest pandemics of our times. This study analyzes the rate of new HIV infections over al ... more

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Popularização da política de saúde na era Vargas

Isabella Maasberg, Ricarda Musser, Gunther Kunze (eds.)

Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz (2023), 119 pp.

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Disinformation exports: How foreign anti-vaccine narratives reached West African communities online

Carlotta Dotto, Seb Cubbon

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 ... more

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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

Michaels Hameleers, Edda Humprecht, Judith Möller, Jula Lühring

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 ... more

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The Association of a Large-Scale Television Campaign with Exclusive Breastfeeding Prevalence in Vietnam

Tuan T. Nguyen, Silvia Alayón, Ann Jimerson, Danielle Naugle, Phuong H. Nguyen et al.

AJPH Research, volume 107, issue 2 (2023), pp. 312-318

"Objectives: To examine the association between exposure to breastfeeding television spots and exclusive breastfeeding (EBF). Methods: We performed face-to-face interviews with 11 722 mothers of infants younger than 6 months using 5 cross-sectional surveys 6 or more months apart between 2011 and 201 ... more

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