Thematic analysis as a new culturomic tool: the social media coverage on COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

M Aria, C Cuccurullo, L D'Aniello, M Misuraca… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic influenced people's everyday lives because of the health
emergency and the resulting socio-economic crisis. People use social media to share …

Challenges and opportunities for journalism in the Bulgarian COVID-19 communication ecology

L Trifonova Price, V Antonova - Journalism Practice, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The coronavirus pandemic brought immense challenges to journalists worldwide, including
new threats to media freedom, journalism safety and practice. The impact of the pandemic …

Associations between COVID-19-related digital health literacy and online information-seeking behavior among Portuguese university students

R Rosário, MRO Martins, C Augusto, MJ Silva… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
We aim to evaluate the associations between digital health literacy (DHL) related to COVID-
19 and online information-seeking behavior among university students. Methods: A total of …

New insights into crisis communication from an “inside” emic perspective during COVID-19

J Macnamara - Public Relations Inquiry, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world, requiring emergency management by
health authorities and providers, it created flow-on crises and “crisis contagion” for …

Media and information literacy for developing resistance to 'infodemic': lessons to be learnt from the binge of misinformation during COVID-19 pandemic

N Singh, G Banga - Media, culture & society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by the spurt of misinformation, which was
termed as 'infodemic'and 'disinfodemic', swaying the health decisions of the populace. There …

Guardians of truth? Fact-checking the 'disinfodemic'in Southern Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Mare, A Munoriyarwa - Journal of African Media Studies, 2022 - intellectdiscover.com
Based on virtual ethnography and online interviews, we provide new evidence of how fact-
checking organizations based in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia responded to the …

Machine learning-based identifications of COVID-19 fake news using biomedical information extraction

F Fifita, J Smith, MB Hanzsek-Brill, X Li… - Big Data and Cognitive …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The spread of fake news related to COVID-19 is an infodemic that leads to a public health
crisis. Therefore, detecting fake news is crucial for an effective management of the COVID …

COVID-19 in Brazil: an analysis about the consumption of information on social networks

LM Massarani, I Waltz, T Leal - 2020 - arca.fiocruz.br
The emergence of a public health crisis reinforces concerns about science communication
strategies. Science communication concerns a series of actions organised to communicate …

COVID-19 preparedness and social dynamics in a Sub-Saharan Africa country, Benin

A Maccaro, D Piaggio, M Vignigbé… - Health promotion …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This project aims to assess and analyse the perception and impact of the COVID-19
pandemic in Benin. The applied research methodology was interdisciplinary and combined …

Introduction to the Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic

Y Friesem, U Raman, I Kanižaj… - The Routledge Handbook …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
This book is a time capsule of the state of media education around the world between 2020
and 2021 following the increased instances of COVID-19 cases leading to national …