Collaborating in a Pandemic: Adapting Local News Infrastructure to Meet Information Needs

Wenzel, Andrea; Crittenden, Letrell

doi:10.1080/17512786.2021.1910986

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“…The two main objectives of this activity are to provide information that suits the community's needs more accurately and to improve social cohesion between the community and local media. Another goal is to create a hub for disseminating information to the community (Wenzel & Crittenden, 2023).…”

Section: The Kawalcovid19 Citizen Initiativementioning

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Stopping the Virus; Study on Participatory Journalism and Digital Humanitarian during a Non-Natural Disaster in Indonesia

Nusantara,

Rinaldi,

Veronika

2024

JKJ

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Philanthropic initiatives during disaster events have become embedded in Indonesian society. It also manifests in a digital humanitarian practice during the COVID-19 pandemic, categorized by the government as a non-natural disaster from 2020 to 2023. The spreading of misinformation and inaccurate data on cases of COVID-19 patients, have become an obstacle in the early stages of efforts to stop fatalities. As the government imposes lockdown and restrictions access to information, the news media as one of the key sources of information is under attack. Thus, citizen initiatives in stopping the pandemic are worth documented as a lesson learned when managing disasters in the future. By conducting qualitative method, this research describes the implementation of participatory journalism in practice related to the data gathering and reporting on COVID-19 cases in Indonesia by "LaporCovid-19" and "KawalCOVID19". This research finds both platforms carry out digital humanitarian practices while organizing citizens and producing, curating, and disseminating information. As the government imposes lockdown and restricted access toward media and journalists, the digital humanitarian practice involves citizens through decentralization, self-organization, volunteerism, and the optimization of digital platforms. The collaboration is a multidisciplinary subject that combines crises management, communications, network collaborative organizational structures, social computing and technology. In conclusion, their efforts offer a model to develop citizen participation in the non-natural disaster using digital apps and citizen resources. The model intertwines participatory journalism and digital humanitarian practices that engage citizens during the pandemic on both digital platforms contribute to other citizens' efforts to prevent and overcome health crises.

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Stopping the Virus; Study on Participatory Journalism and Digital Humanitarian during a Non-Natural Disaster in Indonesia

Nusantara,

Rinaldi,

Veronika

2024

JKJ

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“…That said, a strong local storytelling network can make a difference in communicating pandemic-related information. For instance, during the COVID-19 pandemic, local journalists in Philadelphia working with two community projects in minority neighborhoods were able to leverage their collaboration to circulate information within and between storytelling networks (Wenzel and Crittenden 2021). As such, a closer examination of rural American storytelling networks might help to better contextualize the challenges faced by public health providers trying to reach local residents, as such networks are critical to the effective provision of science-based public health information to residents.…”

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Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks

Usher

2023

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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This article considers the public communication challenges that health officials in rural America faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. I analyze the role that public health officials played in communicating news and information about the pandemic in 29 rural counties in Illinois. These officials were challenged by a diminished reporting capacity among local media outlets, and by a political radicalization of local Republicans, who no longer regarded local media as trusted nodes in local storytelling networks. I find that while public health officials can help fill a community’s critical information needs about risk and emergency, the public’s take-up of this information depends on sociocultural and political forces that shape the broader communication context.

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“…As we've seen, health reporting also requires trust and an understanding of the community in order to be effective. In Philadelphia, Wenzel and Crittenden (2023) used focus groups to document the work of three community journalism initiatives -Resolve Philly, Germantown Info Hub and Kensington Voice -as they sought to cover the pandemic for their communities, which are primarily Black and Latinx. All three outlets collaborated with each other as well as other community and public health organizations to provide accurate, trusted, actionable information to their audiences.…”

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Forced change: Pandemic pedagogy and journalism education

Audette-Longo,

Crowther,

Duncan

et al. 2023

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For further information visit www.j-schoolscanada.ca. FAITS & FRICTIONS est publié par Écoles-J Canada, l'association nationale du Canada pour la recherche et l'éducation en journalisme postsecondaire. Tout le contenu est en libre accès et disponible via J-Source à www.j-source.ca, la principale source en ligne au Canada d'actualités et de ressources journalistiques. Pour plus d'informations, visitez www.ecolesjcanada.ca. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International LicenseFORCED CHANGE CHANGEMENT FORCÉ PODCAST EPISODE 1 Mentoring, kindness and data journalism during the pandemic Chantal Francoeur 46 BALADO ÉPISODE 1 Mentorat, gentillesse et empathie en pédagogie et journalisme de données en temps de pandémie Chantal Francoeur ARTICLE Creating the new journalism classroom for a future in the balance: A not-so-modest proposal for a pedagogy of care, dialogue and critique Adrian Harewood 48 ARTICLE Créer les nouvelles salles de classe de journalisme pour un futur balancé : Une proposition pas si modeste pour une pédagogie de soin, de dialogue et de critique Adrian Harewood NOVEL APPROACHES NOUVELLES APPROCHES PODCAST EPISODE 2 Technology and changing course delivery through the pandemic Nana aba Duncan, Andrea Hunter, Roger Martin and Winston Sih 63 BALADO ÉPISODE 2 2 e épisode : La technologie et l'évolution de l'enseignement à travers la pandémie

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Collaborating in a Pandemic: Adapting Local News Infrastructure to Meet Information Needs

Cited by 15 publications

References 23 publications

Stopping the Virus; Study on Participatory Journalism and Digital Humanitarian during a Non-Natural Disaster in Indonesia

Stopping the Virus; Study on Participatory Journalism and Digital Humanitarian during a Non-Natural Disaster in Indonesia

Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks

Forced change: Pandemic pedagogy and journalism education

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