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COVID-19 Disinformation: A Multi-National, Whole of Society Perspective

Author : Ritu Gill
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030948250
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book COVID-19 Disinformation: A Multi-National, Whole of Society Perspective written by Ritu Gill and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a threat to our health and economy, but also has strong implications for defence and security. Indeed, defence leaders have highlighted a second fight surrounding the spread of COVID-19, namely disinformation and preparing to face adversaries willing to exploit the public health crisis for nefarious purposes. The current pandemic is a breeding ground for the propagation of disinformation, as it represents the first major global health event in which large social media platforms have become the main distributor of information. This multi-national edited volume consists of contributions from Defence Science, academia and industry, including NATO Headquarters, United States, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom and Norway. The content is aimed at a diverse audience, including NATO members, researchers from defence and security organizations, academics, and militaries including analysts and practitioners, as well as policy makers. This volume focuses on various aspects of COVID-19 disinformation, including identifying global dominant disinformation narratives and the methods used to spread disinformation, examining COVID-19 disinformation within the broader context of the cognitive domain, examining the psychological effects of COVID-19 disinformation and COVID-19 disinformation on instant messaging platforms, along with examining various countermeasures to disinformation.

COVID-19: Ultimate Misinformation

Author : Ivor Mectin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book COVID-19: Ultimate Misinformation written by Ivor Mectin and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Ivor Mectin is presenting his debut book COVID-19: Ultimate Misinformation. This book is a run down of all of the nonsense that we have heard on the internet during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Everything from vaccines being a secret plot by Bill Gates to implant microchips in the population, to consuming horse de-wormer is a miracle cure for COVID-19. Also included is someone with a PhD in English Literature who thinks vaccines can grant time travel powers. Ivor takes aim at the scammers and grifters profiting from the pandemic, examples being Del Bigtree who is selling individual bricks for $500, to Justin Hart's $2750 a month website subscription. This book presents the most comprehensive collection of COVID-19 misinformation anywhere with over 500 pieces of misinformation, making it the ultimate archive of COVID-19 wingnuttery. Howl with laughter at the absurdity - not to mention Ivor's sharp wit that many of you will be familiar with from his twitter account @IvorMectin1. Also, in the early chapters, learn logical arguments against misinformation and conspiracy theories, in addition to how to fact check these tropes. They say you should always end your book pitch with a CTA (Call to Action) and here it is: The only question to answer is why haven't you bought this fantastic book and kept the author in the life of luxury yet?!

Theorizing Mediated Information Distortion

Author : Brian H. Spitzberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000951871
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Mediated Information Distortion written by Brian H. Spitzberg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the phenomenon of distortion of information through media via the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which relevant information distortion and virality have occurred in regard to the disease and its risks. Positing that the interrelated processes of misinformation, disinformation, fake news and conspiracy theories are related forms of distortion of information through media (DIM) and can only be understood through a multilevel theoretical model that incorporates message-based, individual difference, social network-based, societal and geotechnical factors, Brian H. Spitzberg develops an integrative, well-argued, and well-evidenced framework within which these issues can and should be addressed. This book offers a model for further research across such disciplines as communication, journalism/media studies, political science, sociology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, evolutionary psychology, public health, big data analytics, social network analytics, computational linguistics and geographic information sciences, and will interest researchers and students in those areas.

This Is Not Propaganda

Author : Peter Pomerantsev
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541762134
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book This Is Not Propaganda written by Peter Pomerantsev and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this "insightful" account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during the age of disinformation (New York Times). When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy -- but our very notion of what those words even mean. Peter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, "behavioral change" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia -- but the answers he finds there are not what he expected. Blending reportage, family history, and intellectual adventure, This Is Not Propaganda explores how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves when reality seems to be coming apart.

Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author : Ran Wei
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000954684
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic written by Ran Wei and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles the infodemic—the rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramifications—triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on four Asian societies, the book compares and analyzes the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and its broad impacts on the public in Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Singapore. Providing both a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon of misinformation and cross-societal analyses of patterns, the book features in-depth analyses of the prevalence of COVID-19 misinformation and engagement and explores its consequences in an Asian context. The book sheds lights on these key questions: What types of infodemic messages circulate widely on popular social media platforms? What factors account for exposure to and engagement with debunked yet popular COVID-19 misinformation? How does exposure to widely circulated COVID-19 misinformation affect people’s beliefs, attitudes, and adoption of preventive measures to cope with the pandemic? How do macro social differences condition the diffusion and impacts of COVID-19 misinformation? What intervention strategies can counter the misinformation? Presenting scientific insights and empirical findings on the pressing issues about infodemic, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of communication studies, political science, public health, crisis communication, and Asian Studies, as well as policymakers and practitioners who wish to acquire cutting-edge, evidence-based knowledge about combating misinformation during a global pandemic.

The Misinformation of COVID-19

Author : Austin Mardon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773691695
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Misinformation of COVID-19 written by Austin Mardon and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misinformation isn't a stranger to Canadians; it has been a slippery friend in need of boundaries for a long time. Since COVID-19 has appeared, its laid its fatal blow . . . Now, we're countering this communication bacterium one squirt of sanitizer at a time.

The Infodemic

Author : Gabriele Cosentino
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755640756
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Infodemic written by Gabriele Cosentino and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What caused the Covid-19 pandemic, a natural spillover event or an accident in a Wuhan laboratory? Were the mitigation measures imposed by many governments - such as lockdowns and mask-wearing mandates - based on scientific evidence, or rather aimed at curtailing civil liberties and disrupting economic activities, under the secret maneuvering of a global cabal of politicians and financiers? And were Covid-19 vaccines effective in curbing the spread of the disease, or were they just a profitable scheme by big pharmaceutical companies? These questions and speculations, some legitimate, some dubious, have been swirling around the globe through social media, alternative information outlets, instant messaging apps, and mainstream media since the beginning of the pandemic, feeding the 'infodemic' - an overwhelming surge of information, misinformation, rumours and conspiracy theories which continue to linger in public and private discourse. With an original take on concepts and theories drawn from post-truth and disinformation studies, the book analyses the 'infodemic' through a series of global case studies. Framing the infodemic as a complex, multi-layered phenomenon with vast geopolitical implications, Gabriele Cosentino reveals the global competition for control in twenty-first century geopolitics between Western liberal democracies and non-Western autocracies, and above all between the United States and China.

COVID-19 Disinformation

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030948269
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book COVID-19 Disinformation written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a threat to our health and economy, but also has strong implications for defence and security. Indeed, defence leaders have highlighted a second fight surrounding the spread of COVID-19, namely disinformation and preparing to face adversaries willing to exploit the public health crisis for nefarious purposes. The current pandemic is a breeding ground for the propagation of disinformation, as it represents the first major global health event in which large social media platforms have become the main distributor of information. This multi-national edited volume consists of contributions from Defence Science, academia and industry, including NATO Headquarters, United States, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom and Norway. The content is aimed at a diverse audience, including NATO members, researchers from defence and security organizations, academics, and militaries including analysts and practitioners, as well as policy makers. This volume focuses on various aspects of COVID-19 disinformation, including identifying global dominant disinformation narratives and the methods used to spread disinformation, examining COVID-19 disinformation within the broader context of the cognitive domain, examining the psychological effects of COVID-19 disinformation and COVID-19 disinformation on instant messaging platforms, along with examining various countermeasures to disinformation.

Health Literacy

Author : Who Regional Office for Europe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789289000154
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Health Literacy written by Who Regional Office for Europe and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As societies grow more complex and people are increasingly bombarded with health information and misinformation, health literacy becomes essential. People with strong health literacy skills enjoy better health and well-being, while those with weaker skills tend to engage in riskier behavior and have poorer health. With evidence from the recent European Health Literacy Survey, this report identifies practical and effective ways public health and other sector authorities and advocates can strengthen health literacy in a variety of settings, including educational settings, workplaces, marketplaces, health systems, new and traditional media and political arenas. The report can be used as a tool for spreading awareness, stimulating debate and research and, above all, for informing policy development and action.

The COVID-19 Catastrophe

Author : Richard Horton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509546456
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The COVID-19 Catastrophe written by Richard Horton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was clear in January that a dangerous new virus was causing a devastating human tragedy in China. And yet the world ignored the warnings. Why? In this short and hard-hitting book, Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinizes the actions that governments around the world took – and failed to take – as the virus spread from its origins in Wuhan to the global pandemic that it is today. He shows that many Western governments and their scientific advisors made assumptions about the virus and its lethality that turned out to be mistaken. Valuable time was lost while the virus spread unchecked, leaving health systems unprepared for the avalanche of infections that followed. Drawing on his own scientific and medical expertise, Horton outlines the measures that need to be put in place, at both national and international levels, to prevent this kind of catastrophe from happening again. Were supposed to be living in an era where human beings have become the dominant influence on the environment, but COVID-19 has revealed the fragility of our societies and the speed with which our systems can come crashing down. We need to learn the lessons of this pandemic and we need to learn them fast because the next pandemic may arrive sooner than we think.

The Truth About COVID-19

Author : Joseph Mercola
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645020886
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Truth About COVID-19 written by Joseph Mercola and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly National Bestseller “An eloquent, charismatic, and knowledgeable [critique] of a corrupt system.”—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., from the foreword “Dr. Mercola is a visionary, pioneer, and leader.”—Del Bigtree, host of The Highwire Multiple New York Times best-selling author Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins, founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association, team up to expose the truth—and end the madness—about COVID-19. Through vigorous research, over 500 references to peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, official government statistics, and public health research findings from around the world, the authors lay bare the urgent need for a global awakening. It is time to come together, demand the truth, and take control of our health. The Truth About COVID-19 is your invitation to join Dr. Mercola and Cummins as they educate and organize for a healthy, equitable, democratic, and regenerative future. *The Paperback Edition is Updated with a New Preface by Dr. Mercola* "Phenomenal . . . required reading for this time in our lives."—Shawn Stevenson, host of The Model Health Show “Dr. Merola has changed the way we think about health.”—Dave Asprey, New York Times bestselling author and host of Bulletproof Radio

Drowning in the Infodemic

Author : Andrew Carr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735425450
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Drowning in the Infodemic written by Andrew Carr and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Communicating COVID-19

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1801177228
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Communicating COVID-19 written by Christian Fuchs and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communicating COVID-19 analyses the changes of everyday communication in the COVID-19 crisis. Exploring how misinformation has spread online throughout the pandemic, the impact of changes on society and the way we communicate, and the effect this has had on the spread of misinformation.

Fake News

Author : Russell Chun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781433159527
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Fake News written by Russell Chun and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dizzying post-truth, post-fact, fake news era, the onslaught and speed of potentially untrue, incorrect, or fabricated information (some crafted and weaponized, some carelessly shared) can cause a loss of our intellectual bearings. If we fail to have a common truthful basis for discussions of opinion and policy, the integrity of our democracy is at risk. This up-to-date anthology is designed to provide a survey of technological, ethical, and legal issues raised by falsehoods, particularly social media misinformation. The volume explores visual and data dissemination, business practices, international perspectives, and case studies. With misinformation and misleading information being propagated using a variety of media such as memes, data, charts, photos, tweets, posts, and articles, an understanding of the theory, mechanisms, and changing communication landscape is essential to move in the right direction with academic, industry, and government initiatives to inoculate ourselves from the dangers of fake news. The book takes an international and multidisciplinary approach with contributions from media studies, journalism, computer science, the law, and communication, making it distinct among books on fake news. This book is essential for graduate or undergraduate students in courses dealing with fake news and communication studies. Relevant courses include media studies, journalism, public relations, media ethics, media law, social media, First Amendment law, philosophy, and political science.

Stuck

Author : Heidi J. Larson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190077255
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Stuck written by Heidi J. Larson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines' necessity -- along with quesitons around their side effects -- have gone mainstream, blending with geopolitical conflicts, political campaigns, celebrity causes, and "natural" lifestyles to win a growing number of hearts and minds. Today's anti-vaccine positions find audiences where they've never existed previously. Stuck examines how the issues surrounding vaccine hesitancy are, more than anything, about people feeling left out of the conversation. A new dialogue is long overdue, one that addresses the many types of vaccine hesitancy and the social factors that perpetuate them. To do this, Stuck provides a clear-eyed examination of the social vectors that transmit vaccine rumors, their manifestations around the globe, and how these individual threads are all connected.

Combating Online Health Misinformation

Author : Alla Keselman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538162210
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Combating Online Health Misinformation written by Alla Keselman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danger of health misinformation online, long a concern of medical and public health professionals, has come to the forefront of societal concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of their motives, creators and sharers of misinformation promote non-evidence-based health advice and treatment recommendations, and often deny health methods, measures, and approaches that are supported by the best evidence of the time. Unfortunately, many infrastructural, social, and cognitive factors make individuals vulnerable to misinformation. This book aims to assist information and health professionals and educators with all phases of information provision and support, from understanding users’ information needs, to building relationships, to helping users verify and evaluate sources. The book can be used as a textbook in library and information science programs, as well as nursing, communication, journalism, psychology, and informatics programs. The book, written from the e-health literacy perspective, is unique in its nuanced approach to misinformation. It draws on psychology and information science to explain human susceptibility to misinformation and discusses ways to engage with the public deeply and meaningfully, fostering trust and raising health and information literacy. It is organized into three parts. Part I: The Ecology of Online Health Information' overviews the digital health information universe, showing that misinformation is prevalent, dangerous, and difficult to define. Part II: Susceptibility to Misinformation: Literacies as Safeguards addresses factors and competencies that affect individual vulnerability and resilience. Part III: Solutions focuses on education and community engagement initiatives that help the public locate and evaluate health information. Chapters within the three Parts discuss technological innovation and social media as posing novel risks as well as presenting novel solutions to helping the public connect with high quality information and building trusting relationships among the public and information and health professionals.

Social Media Ethics and COVID-19

Author : Pamela Zeiser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666911879
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Social Media Ethics and COVID-19 written by Pamela Zeiser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary collection explores the ethics of social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on misinformation, truth, well-being, and authenticity.