The Interdisciplinary Communication Dynamics of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lewis, Monique; Govender, Eliza; Holland, Kate

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“…The World Health Organization (WHO) has described the flow of information that accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic as an infodemic (Ghebreyesus, quoted in United Nations, 2020a), the pattern of disseminated information included virus origins, spreading causes, symptoms, and treatment of the virus and remedies were rapid and uncontrolled in both online and offline social networks and media outlets. Untested experimental drugs and folk remedies either found their way to be media mainstream by sharing them on social media or even echoed by celebrities, politicians, and sometimes untrusted doctors (Lewis, Holland & Govender, 2021). Some of this misinformation peddled fake cures or treatments like eating garlic, or saltwater and injecting with bleach, (WHO, 2020).…”

Section: B Infodemic On Covid-19 On Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Infodemic and Digital Literacy: The Role of Digital Literacy in Combating Misinformation of COVID-19 on Facebook

Bicher

Fathy

2021

المجلة العربیة لبحوث الاعلام والاتصال

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Amid the spreading of COVID-19 globally since March 2020, Facebook has played a vital role in spreading information about the virus, its effects, and its consequences. However, the viral nature of Facebook and its ease of spreading the information helped in circulating the misinformation about the virus and made it hard for its users to seek the correct sources of information about COVID-19 Pandemic among the millions of misinformed posts and content on it. Hence, large populations of our world were facing the COVID-19 and an infodemic along with it. This is where digital literacy shows up as a vital skill to be possessed by the users of Facebook to find and evaluate information about COVID-19 Pandemic to help them understand the current situations and consequences of the ongoing pandemic. The paper tackles the role of digital literacy as a skill possessed by Egyptian users in combating misinformation of COVID-19 Pandemic on Facebook amid the breakthrough of the pandemic since March 2021. The paper also sheds light on the relevance of the topic on SDG no.3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG no.4 (Quality Education). A survey was conducted to collect primary data to test the hypotheses of the paper's suggested model.

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Section: B Infodemic On Covid-19 On Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%