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Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines on Social Media: Rapid Review

Ingjerd Skafle, Anders Nordahl-Hansen, Daniel S. Quintana, Rolf Wynn, Elia Gabarron

Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 24, issue 8: e37367 (2022), 20 pp.

"We aimed to synthesize the existing research on misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines spread on social media platforms and its effects. The secondary aim was to gain insight and gather knowledge about whether misinformation about autism and COVID-19 vaccines is being spread on social media platfor ... more

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Misinformation, infighting, backlash, and an ‘endless’ recovery: Policymakers recount challenges and mitigating measures after a vaccine scare in the Philippines

Mark Donald C. Reñosa et al.

Global Health Action, volume 15, issue 2077536 (2022), 14 pp.

"This study aims to explore the perspectives of policymakers involved in ongoing efforts to boost vaccine confidence in the Philippines following a 2017 Dengvaxia scare and the current COVID-19 pandemic. Between August and November 2020, we conducted 19 semi-structured narrative interviews with purp ... more

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Digital Development: Stories of Hope from Health and Social Development

Sundeep Sahay, Arunima Mukhrajee, Geoffrey Walsham, Thomas Hylland Eriksen (eds.)

Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2022), xii, 164 pp.

"This book explores case studies across India, Kenya, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, and global, comparative settings, and asks what positive impact ICT applications (Health Information Systems, Pandemic response systems, Early Warning and Response Systems, Hospital Information System and Smartphone based Ap ... more

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Olá: Boletim humanitário de rumores #4, Maio 2022

Internews (2022), 7 pp.

"Este boletim visa fornecer aos parceiros humanitários e de saúde dados sobre rumores identificados entre comunidades indígenas dos estados de Roraima, Amapá e Pará e comunidades quilombolas dos estados do Amapá e Pará no último mês, com o objetivo de orientar e informar a respeito da comun ... more

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Crisis-Ready Responsible Selves: National Productions of the Pandemic

Shani Orgad, Radha Sarma Hegde

International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 25, issue 3-4 (2022), pp. 287-308

"National governments have played a key role in constructing the Covid-19 pandemic through their communications. Drawing on thematic, discursive and visual analyses of Covid-19 campaigns from 12 national contexts, we show how the pandemic has presented governments with unique conditions for articula ... more

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Lack of trust in government, reliance on social media may drive vaccine hesitancy in Zimbabwe

Jonathan Kugarakuripi, Stephen Ndoma

Afrobarometer (2022), 8 pp.

"Findings from the most recent Afrobarometer survey in Zimbabwe show that about half of citizens are reluctant to take the vaccine, an attitude that is particularly prevalent among the most highly educated and among supporters of the opposition MDC-Chamisa party. Fewer than half of adults trust the ... more

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Lugara #2: Humanitarian Bulletin, April 1-30, 2022

Internews (2022), 8 pp.

"The Lugara Humanitarian Bulletin is an output of Internews in South Sudan. Under the global Rooted in Trust project, Internews in South Sudan aims to address concerns of diverse communities, including IDPs, refugees, cattle communities, youth, through online and face to face social listening." (Pag ... more

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Rooted in Trust: The Humanitarian Bulletin. Zimbabwe, June, 2022

Internews (2022), 6 pp.

"Internews in Zimbabwe collected 276 rumors on-line and 36 offline in the communities of Masvingo, Matabeleland South, Matabeleland North, Bulawayo, and Midlands. The most trending rumors include that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe for children (35%), COVID-19 vaccines cause death (31%), COVID-19 vacc ... more

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The Use of Imagery in Global Health: An Analysis of Infectious Disease Documents and a Framework to Guide Practice

Esmita Charani, Sameed Shariq, Alexandra M. Cardoso Pinto, Raabia Farooqi, Winnie Nambatya et al.

Lancet Global Health, volume 11 (2022), pp. 155-164

"This work has highlighted the biased approaches in the use of imagery by those who hold power in global health. It is crucial to engage with these issues and to identify how we can work to treat individuals featured in global health imagery equitably, regardless of their circumstances, geography, r ... more

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Israeli Information Policy, COVID-19 and the Ultra-Orthodox Haredim

Yoel Cohen, Ahuva Spitz

Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 45-67

"Against the background of the COVID-19 crisis in Israel, the country’s ultra-orthodox population, the Haredim, were faced with seemingly insuperable dilemmas of compromising their religious standards for the sake of dealing with the virus. The government launched a public relations campaign to pe ... more

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The Inclusion of Learners with Disabilities: Guidelines on Emergency Movement to Online and Distance Learning

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 32 pp.

"This document addresses open and distance learning (ODL) in a variety of environments where education and learning are increasingly technology mediated, whether it be completely at distance or an increasingly prevalent blended framework where students use technology part of the time. During times o ... more

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability: Perspectives from Stakeholders, Communicators and Audiences

Michelle Betz, Melissa Eveleigh

London: CDAC Network (2022), 62 pp.

"This study sought to identify changes, if any, to the communication and community engagement landscape as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It did not aim to evaluate communication, community engagement and accountability (CCEA) during the pandemic but, rather, aimed to bring together some of the ... more

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Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives

John C. Pollock, Douglas A. Vakoch (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxxi, 267 pp.

"The book evaluates unique civic challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities for media worldwide, exploring pandemic social norms that media promote or discourage, and how media serve as instruments of social control and resistance, or of cooperation and representation. These chapters raise sign ... more

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Social and Behaviour Change Strategy. Volume I: Policy & Strategic Approach

Adrita Bagchi

New Delhi: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2022), 127 pp.

"The Government of Madhya Pradesh is committed to ensure the overall development of all its residents, especially women and children. The Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD) works to sustainably improve health and nutrition outcomes for women of reproductive age and children below 6 yea ... rs, enable holistic development and protection of children and ensure safety, equity and empowerment of women. The department implements the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme for improving maternal and infant nutrition and health. It also implements the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) and various other schemes and programmes for health, gender equality and women empowerment. Over the years, a lot of progress has been made. However, there are still a few indicators that are not doing well as expected. Census 2011, National Family Health Survey – 4 (2015-16) and NFHS-5 (2019-21) have found that low sex ratio, lack of women empowerment, experiencing gender-based violence, substance abuse, low female literacy, child marriage and small landholdings are some of the determinants of poor health and empowerment of women and children. Individual and community behaviours, attitudes, social norms and practices are some of the reasons for such indicators. To bring about an improvement in these indicators and positively transform the status of women and children in Madhya Pradesh, a comprehensive state-specific social and behaviour change (SBC) strategy has been developed for DWCD. This strategy is supported by the recommendations provided in the department’s other policies. The state’s Nutrition Policy (2020-30) emphasizes on the importance of designing SBCC plans in local dialects for its acceptability and greater involvement of the community. The centre’s Poshan Abhiyan which DWCD follows stresses on community mobilisation and behaviour change, highlighting the need to take-up sustained efforts requiring multi-pronged approach and bring grass-root synergy and convergence. The state’s Child Protection Policy (2020) also highlights the need to build awareness and stakeholder capacities to strengthen implementation and the enabling environment to ensure child well-being and protection. This document details the SBC strategy which includes thematic area-wise priority and desired behaviours that should be practised by the target groups for improved indicators, barriers and enablers to its adoption, key messages to be communicated and strategic approach and interventions that will facilitate positive change." (Introduction) more

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Combating Disinformation in the Arab World. Case Study: The COVID-19 Pandemic

Noha Atef

Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ);Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2021), 43 pp.

"In this paper, ARIJ proposes the following recommendations which target the greater media community. This includes media institutions concerned with the press, unions, press unions and donors who support this venture. We maintain that disinformation is a product of a social and political environmen ... more

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COVID-19 Risk Communications Promising Practices Playbook
Inspiring Practice

Manila; New York: Asian Development Bank (ADB);McCann Global Health (2021), v, 89 pp.

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Ten Lessons Learnt: Scaling and Transitioning One of the Largest Mobile Health Communication Programmes in the World to a National Government

Sara Chamberlain, Priyanka Dutt, Anna Godfrey, Radharani Mitra, Amnesty Elizabeth LeFevre et al.

BMJ Global Health, volume 6, issue e005341 (2021), 6 pp.

"There has been exponential growth in the numbers of ‘digital development’ programmes seeking to leverage technology to solve systemic challenges. However, despite promising results and a shift from pilots to scale-ups, many have failed to realise their full potential. This paper reflects on les ... more

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Risk Communication and Community Engagement Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccines for Marginalised Populations

Collective Service for Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) (2021), 29 pp.

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Using Narrative Evidence to Convey Health Information on Social Media: The Case of COVID-19

Anat Gesser-Edelsburg

Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 23, issue 3 e24948 (2021), 17 pp.

"During disease outbreaks or pandemics, policy makers must convey information to the public for informative purposes (eg, morbidity or mortality rates). They must also motivate members of the public to cooperate with the guidelines, specifically by changing their usual behavior. Policy makers have t ... more

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Does the Platform Matter? Social Media and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Beliefs in 17 Countries

Yanis Theocharis, Ana Cardenal, Soyeon Jin, Toril Aalberg, David Nicolas Hopmann et al.

New Media & Society, volume 25, issue 12 (2021), pp. 3412-3437

"While the role of social media in the spread of conspiracy theories has received much attention, a key deficit in previous research is the lack of distinction between different types of platforms. This study places the role of social media affordances in facilitating the spread of conspiracy belief ... more

COVID-19 Risk Communications Promising Practices Playbook Inspiring Practice

COVID-19 Risk Communications Promising Practices Playbook
Inspiring Practice