Covid-19 Misinformation Flows

Challenges and Options for Reconstructing and Disseminating Mediated Messages
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-73539-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Health Communication

Covid-19 Misinformation Flows describes challenges in accessing, collecting, processing, and disseminating information on pandemics, with a focus on Covid-19 communication.

An international team of authors address the role of disinformation and misinformation in managing the communication of epidemics; how social media platforms and mainstream media outlets in some countries and regions address pandemics in the context of the flow, learning, and sharing of information on covid-19. Looking at on how traditional media and social media report pandemics, especially Covid-19, the volume addresses the effect of fake news on individuals and businesses, and the impact of such communication on physical and mental health.

This book will interest scholars and students of health communication, social media communication, journalism, political communication and media and communication in the Global South.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ngwainmbi, Emmanuel K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The sociology of communicating pandemics and the objective of this book

Part I: Communicated Misconceptions about Covid-19

1. Challenges and wins in Communicating Pandemics Globally: A look back at Covid-19

2. Newspapers Coverage of Conspiracy Theories of Health Pandemics in Nigeria: A Case Study of Covid 19

3. Infodemic and Misinformation on YouTube about Covid-19

4. How community Radio stations led proper communication and addressed miscommunication of COVID-19 issues in South Africa

Part II: Experiences in Communicating Pandemics in Central Africa and Asia

5. Newspaper Reportage of COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh and Nigeria

6. Communicating and managing Covid-19 for Sustainable Health in a Multi-Cultural Nation-Nigeria

7. Journalistic challenges in covering COVID-19 news stories in Bangladesh

8. Newspaper as National Propaganda Tool: How the People's Daily Overseas Newspaper Communicated China's Image during Covid-19

9. User Engagement of Bangladesh Government Agencies and Non-Profit Organizations’ Sharing of COVID-19 Information on Facebook

10. Analysis of Migrant Workers' demise and media failures during the Pandemic

Part III: Social Media use and Misinformation on health issues in the Middle East

11. News and Misinformation in social media in the United Arab Emirates during covid-19 Pandemic

12. Information, Anxiety and Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) during Covid-19

Part IV: Media shenanigans, disinformation and actions for communicating pandemics for constructive change

13. Using Latin American Legislation and inter-American Standards to Combat Disinformation on Health Issues

14. Reconstructing news and information for the consumption of constructive messaging about COVID-19: Administrative approaches to redirecting Minority Populations towards sustainable treatment Measures

Conclusions: Charting futures for mediated messaging on epidemics

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.