COVID-19 and Infodemics: How to Solve this Problem

Cifuentes‐Faura, Javier

doi:10.13187/ijmil.2020.2.145

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“…The community is flooded with various kinds of information that need to be appropriately checked. Referring to research conducted by Cifuentes (2020) that with the current health crisis, the circulation of fake news is growing rapidly, it requires a critical ability to be able to read and evaluate the truth of the news, as seen from the source, the logo of the organization that issued the information, whether there is a spelling mistake, the date of publication and a statement to disseminate the information. This is where good digital media literacy skills are very much needed.…”

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Digital Media Literacy and Covid-19 Infodemic Among Indonesian Cancer Survivors

Stellarosa¹,

Ikhsano²

2022

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Social media as new media plays a significant role in changing society, including in seeking information. During this Pandemic period, various kinds of information related to Covid-19 were present in the community, including cancer survivors, a group susceptible to exposure to the covid virus 19. The flood of information (infodemic) that has occurred cannot be justified to harm the public. Until the sixth month of the Covid-19. Pandemic in Indonesia, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics noted 1,016 hoax issues related to Covid-19. Responding to this requires good digital media literacy skills, namely the ability to access, evaluate and critically analyze the information needed. This study aims to see how digital literacy skills among cancer survivors are related to the flood of Covid-19 information. Digital literacy skills are based on the European Commission's individual competence framework: personal competence and social competence. This study used a descriptive survey method and used descriptive statistical data analysis techniques. Data were obtained by distributing questionnaires to 96 cancer survivors. The results showed that cancer survivors' digital literacy skills were in the medium level, which means that most respondents had sufficient skills to access and operate digital media, analyzing and producing media content. It is hoped that with the continuous improvement of digital media literacy skills, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, the anxiety among cancer survivors can be reduced.

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Digital Media Literacy and Covid-19 Infodemic Among Indonesian Cancer Survivors

Stellarosa¹,

Ikhsano²

2022

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Thus, the role of media cannot be underestimated. The media can positively promote efficient strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic (43,44). Thus, it is required to publish scientific and evidence-based information.…”

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Development and Psychometric Evaluation of an Instrument to Identify Facilitators and Barriers to Practicing COVID-19 Preventive Measures

Dehghani

Pooladi

Nouri

et al. 2022

Jundishapur J Health Sci

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Background: There has been no validated instrument to identify barriers and facilitators to practicing preventive COVID-19 measures. Objectives: The present study aimed to develop and evaluate an instrument to identify facilitators and barriers to practicing COVID-19 preventive measures. Methods: The present study was conducted in two phases from September 2020 to December 2021. In the first phase, the researchers interviewed 20 residents of Sanandaj city, Iran, recruited using the purposive sampling method. Thematic analysis was done to elicit the initial codes from the interview scripts; then, themes were generated to develop the questions. In the second phase, psychometric properties of the test, including face validity, content validity, construct validity, and internal consistency, were investigated among 100 people using an online questionnaire. Afterward, the face, content, and construct validity were investigated through exploratory factor analysis. The entry criterion included people living in Sanandaj city, and the exit criterion was unwillingness to continue cooperation. Results: Participants included nine women and 11 men, with an average age of 28.95 years. After finishing the first phase of the study, 24 statements were generated. They were expanded into 31 statements after reviewing the related literature. The statements were categorized into three classes: adherence to practice, barriers, and facilitators. The results revealed five factors for adherence to practice, two factors for facilitators, and two factors for barriers. The instrument's reliability was reported at 0.91, calculated using Cronbach's alpha. Conclusions: The developed instrument might help investigate barriers and facilitators to practicing COVID-19 preventive measures. The findings may result in developing more effective strategies to promote practicing COVID-19 preventive measures.

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International Journal of Media and Information Literacy: Five-year Anniversary

2021

International Journal of Media and Information Literacy

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In June 2021, the International Journal of Media and Information Literacy celebrated its fifth anniversary and has come a long way from being a completely unknown publication in Europe and the world to becoming a prestigious journal indexed in Scopus (Q3) that publishes authors from dozens of countries around the world. This review article is devoted to the most significant areas of publication activity of this journal, its most characteristic trends and topics.The Journal's fifth anniversary is a good occasion to remember how it began and how it developed. Already in the first issues of the journal it became apparent that the leading researchers in the field of media education are interested in it. For example, American professor Art Silverblatt, author of several editions of Media Literacy, wrote that "Information Literacy applies critical thinking skills to the assessment of Information. Media Literacy is a critical thinking skill that is applied to the source of most of our information -the channels of mass communication" (Silverblatt, 2016: 55). We think that this provision can be called key to the general concept of the

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COVID-19 and Infodemics: How to Solve this Problem

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Digital Media Literacy and Covid-19 Infodemic Among Indonesian Cancer Survivors

Digital Media Literacy and Covid-19 Infodemic Among Indonesian Cancer Survivors

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of an Instrument to Identify Facilitators and Barriers to Practicing COVID-19 Preventive Measures

International Journal of Media and Information Literacy: Five-year Anniversary

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