COVID-19: Contextualizing Misinformation Flows in a US Latinx Border Community (Media and Communication During COVID-19)

Soto-Vásquez, Arthur D.; Gonzalez, Ariadne A.; Shi, Wanzhu; Garcia, Nilda M.; Hernandez, Jessica

doi:10.1080/10646175.2020.1860839

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color in general and Black populations specifically (Soto-Vásquez et al, 2020). Within the US, Black Americans make up 13% of the population yet account for 30% of positive cases and are twice as likely to die from COVID-19 complications than their White counterparts (Johnson & Buford, 2020;Stafford et al, 2020).…”

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Relational maintenance, collectivism, and coping strategies among Black populations during COVID-19

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Mandell

Lucas

2021

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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The current study, adopting community resilience and social creativity, explores Black individuals’ relational maintenance and collectivist strategies employed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A sample of 410 Black adults across the United States answered open-ended web-based survey questions about identifiable shifts in relational dynamics and examples of mutual support exhibited among community members amid COVID-19. Findings include individuals implementation of media technologies to maintain communication and social support, the groups’ concentrated efforts toward providing health and wellness-based information, increased communal interaction, and the redistribution of monetary donations and volunteerism to support organizations promoting gender and racial equity. Outcomes demonstrate that Black populations embrace collectivist-orientated tendencies as a means of community resilience, extending the community resilience framework amid the ongoing crisis and absent of specific geographic location.

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Relational maintenance, collectivism, and coping strategies among Black populations during COVID-19

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Mandell

Lucas

2021

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…We assert that the COVID-19 global pandemic underscores the role of accessible, free and unbiased media. The advent of social media has shifted how the general public access news; increasingly, people are accessing news media content via social media platforms online [ 23 ]. This is potentially problematic, as social media content blurs the line between personal opinion and objective, fact-checked news [ 62 ].…”

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“…The media is a representation of the dominant social discourse and socio-political ideology. Thus, misinformation flow and correction must be understood in the context of the broader culture [ 23 ]. Furthermore, “in highly literate societies, written texts provide particularly telling windows into social worlds” [ 24 ].…”

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Super-Spreaders or Victims of Circumstance? Childhood in Canadian Media Reporting of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Content Analysis

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This qualitative research study, a critical content analysis, explores Canadian media reporting of childhood in Canada during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Popular media plays an important role in representing and perpetuating the dominant social discourse in highly literate societies. In Canadian media, the effects of the pandemic on children and adolescents’ health and wellbeing are overshadowed by discussions of the potential risk they pose to adults. The results of this empirical research highlight how young people in Canada have been uniquely impacted by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Two dominant narratives emerged from the data: children were presented “as a risk” to vulnerable persons and older adults and “at risk” of adverse health outcomes from contracting COVID-19 and from pandemic lockdown restrictions. This reflects how childhood was constructed in Canadian society during the pandemic, particularly how children’s experiences are described in relation to adults. Throughout the pandemic, media reports emphasized the role of young people’s compliance with public health measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and save the lives of older persons.

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“…Network communication may be more effective than conventional communication channels (e.g., broadcast media) (Dynes 2006) and is more effectively framed by someone from that network (Abrahamse and Steg 2013). Network intervention and communication efforts require identifying injection points: individuals who are in the best position to disseminate information and influence (Burt 2009;Soto-Vásquez et al 2020;). Network interactions influence information sharing and the correction of misinformation.…”

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“…Research indicates that nearly 40% of adults use social media platforms to get information about COVID-19 . Network interactions over social media also played a critical role in the discussion and correction of COVID-19 misinformation (Soto-Vásquez et al 2020). Similarly, those who have a social connection to a member of an environmental protection organization are more likely to have their own plan to deal with climate change (Tindall and Piggot 2015).…”

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Effective Policy Applications of Psychological Science: Drawing Parallels between COVID-19 and Climate Change

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Livert

Dehrone

et al. 2021

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In 2021, the world continues to face a serious, widespread challenge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments and civil society are grappling with unprecedented impacts on healthcare and the economy as well as restrictions of normal social interactions of millions. Still, the climate emergency has not rested. Unless addressed, carbon levels will continue to rise through this pandemic, the development and disbursements of vaccines, and the next pandemic. From a psychological perspective, there are many commonalities between the current COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing crisis of climate change. This whitepaper begins by summarizing the broad similarities between these two crises. From there, we draw parallels between COVID-19 and climate change across four domains of psychological research. In doing this, we identify evidence-based approaches that policymakers and other key decision-makers can adopt to holistically respond to the two global crises of climate change and public health. We conclude with a broad discussion on the role of psychological science (and other social and behavioral sciences) in policy.

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COVID-19: Contextualizing Misinformation Flows in a US Latinx Border Community (Media and Communication During COVID-19)

Cited by 25 publications

References 43 publications

Relational maintenance, collectivism, and coping strategies among Black populations during COVID-19

Relational maintenance, collectivism, and coping strategies among Black populations during COVID-19

Super-Spreaders or Victims of Circumstance? Childhood in Canadian Media Reporting of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Content Analysis

Effective Policy Applications of Psychological Science: Drawing Parallels between COVID-19 and Climate Change

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