Psychology and politics of COVID-19 misinfodemics: Why and how do people believe in misinfodemics?

Mukhtar, Sonia

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“…Moreover, social isolation can cause a higher difficulty to access social and emotional support to deal with the grief and stress the pandemic has caused (Lund et al, 2020). Besides, research has emphasized the need of psychological support due to the mental health problems the pandemic may have triggered (Mukhtar, 2021).…”

Section: Covid-19 Impact On Individuals With Intellectual Disabilitiesmentioning

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“…In the framework of the research project INTER-ACT. Interactive Learning Environments for the Inclusion of students with and without disabilities: improving learning, development and relationships (García-Carrión, 2018-2021, this classroom started to implement DLG with the special education students, taking the compromise of carrying the action out according to the orientation that scientific research has stated for its good functioning. Since the project started, the DLGs were done once a week for 6 months and the adapted version of Don Quixote by Cervantes was read and discussed.…”

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Beyond the School Walls: Keeping Interactive Learning Environments Alive in Confinement for Students in Special Education

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying safety measures, including confinement, has meant an unprecedented challenge for the world population today. However, it has entailed additional difficulties for specific populations, including children and people with disabilities. Being out of school for months has reduced the learning opportunities for many children, such as those with less academic resources at home or with poorer technological connectivity. For students with disabilities, it has entailed losing the quality of the special attention they often need, in addition to a more limited understanding of the situation. In this context, a case study was conducted in a special education classroom of a secondary education school. This class started implementing Dialogic Literary Gatherings with their special education students before the COVID-19 confinement and continued online during the confinement. Qualitative data was collected after a period of implementation of the gatherings showing positive impacts on the participants. The case study shows that interactive learning environments such as the Dialogic Literary Gatherings can provide quality distance learning for students with disabilities, contributing to overcome some of the barriers that the pandemic context creates for the education of these students.

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“…In this vein, well-intended policies to compensate for disadvantages could induce feelings of relative deprivation when respondents are afraid that they will not profit from such an improvement but others will, although they might not deserve it (Attewell, 2021). Lastly, in such a severe crisis, people might not believe the positive information provided (Mukhtar, 2020). Respondents may anticipate policy failures of the political elite as they expect an unfair distribution of potential support measures.…”

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When good news backfires: Feelings of disadvantage in the Corona crisis

Filsinger

Freitag

2021

International Political Science Review

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The Corona crisis is an unprecedented challenge for societies. Lockdowns and physical distancing orders have generated economic, social and health-related consequences in many countries. In this regard, we evaluate how information about positive economic expectations during the crisis affects citizens’ attitudes. Using a real-world survey experiment, our analyses indicate that information about a positive economic outlook and governmental support to mitigate the crisis actually promote people’s subjective feelings of disadvantage rather than reducing them. Interestingly, it seems that information about economic recovery that opens up opportunities may backfire due to increased upward comparisons and perceived competition. Structural equation analyses suggest that this relationship is mediated by critical views about democratic institutions during the crisis. Citizens lose confidence in their governments and democratic decision-makers to uphold principles of fairness after the crisis ends. Our results have important implications on how to communicate measures that aim to deal with the crisis.

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“…The well-publicized political contestations between China and the US constitute a good example (Ali, 2020b,c), as does the mistrust shown by many Pakistanis toward the government viral containment policies, which they perceive as efforts to monitor them and control their movements (Ali, n.d.). Different narratives have emerged worldwide (Ali, 2020b,c;Mukhtar, 2021) as politicians have played various "political cards, " such as using militarized terminology and invoking religion, patriotism, or nationalism in the "war" against the coronavirus (see Whyte, 2020). These metaphors are "conceptual apparatuses, " or "rhetorical tool[s]" embedded in sociocultural, political, economic, and ideological structures and processes that influence imaginaries and behaviors (Bates, 2020;Castro Seixas, 2021).…”

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Rituals of Containment: Many Pandemics, Body Politics, and Social Dramas During COVID-19 in Pakistan

Ali

2021

Front. Sociol.

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Infecting millions of people, causing around two million deaths, and affecting billions of people worldwide during January 2021, the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is not merely one pandemic but many. These many pandemics, which I identify herein, have revealed the overt and subtle entanglements among religion, science, and politics around COVID-19. Building on my current ethnographic research on COVID-19 using purposive sampling and interview guide in Pakistan, and borrowing from various anthropological concepts such as “social drama,” proposed by Victor Turner, and ritual, I have developed a concept that I call rituals of containment. With this concept, I extend my previous argument regarding “symbolic ownership” to show a visible “body politics” by demonstrating how religion, science, and politics around COVID-19 are entangled at individual and government levels. This has become observable through the rituals of the Pakistani government of containment to deal with COVID-19. Such entanglements are visible in the case of strategies to tackle infected “viral bodies,” as the government has enacted its authority: (1) to bury what I am terming the dead viral body without its beloved ones present; (2) to return or not to return this body to family members in a coffin; (3) or to provide the grieving family with a symbolic empty coffin. These Covidian politics have led to the question: Who in actuality owns the body? In conclusion, I argue that the problem lies in the discriminatory and contradictory rituals of containment of the government, not in using scientific evidence and guidelines.

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Psychology and politics of COVID-19 misinfodemics: Why and how do people believe in misinfodemics?

Cited by 49 publications

References 31 publications

Beyond the School Walls: Keeping Interactive Learning Environments Alive in Confinement for Students in Special Education

Beyond the School Walls: Keeping Interactive Learning Environments Alive in Confinement for Students in Special Education

When good news backfires: Feelings of disadvantage in the Corona crisis

Rituals of Containment: Many Pandemics, Body Politics, and Social Dramas During COVID-19 in Pakistan

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