Outbreak Communication Challenges when Misinformation Spreads on Social Media

Santosh Vijaykumar; Yan Jin; Claudia Pagliari

doi:10.29397/reciis.v13i1.1623

Outbreak Communication Challenges when Misinformation Spreads on Social Media

Santosh Vijaykumar, Yan Jin, Claudia Pagliari

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This article analyses the implications of social media misinformation for global health risk communication. We define misinformation, describe the pathways through which it can adversely affect responses to risk communication efforts, highlight vulnerabilities in existing interventions and present an agenda for further research to understand and address this problem.

Original language	English
Journal	Revista Eletrônica de Comunicação, Informação e Inovação em Saúde (RECIIS)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v13i1.1623
Publication status	Published - 28 Mar 2019

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Social Media
misinformation
fake news
Infectious Disease
outbreaks
WhatsApp
Digital Health
Digital Society
Social influence

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Digital Innovation for Health Systems Strengthening and Good Governance in Global Health
Pagliari, C.
1/01/11 → 1/12/25
Project: Research
Ethics and Governance of Digital Health
Pagliari, C.
1/01/05 → 1/12/30
Project: Research
Social Media, Social Machines and Health
Pagliari, C.
Project: Research

6 Article
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A Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infodemiology Conference
Calleja, N., Abdallah, A., Abad, N., Ahmed, N., Albarracin, D., Altieri, E., Anoko, J. N., Arcos, R., Azlan, A. A., Bayer, J., Bechmann, A., Bezbaruah, S., Briand, S. C., Brooks, I., Bucci, L. M., Burzo, S., Czerniak, C., De Domenico, M., Dunn, A. G., Ecker, U. K. H., & 52 othersEspinosa, L., Francois, C., Gradon, K., Gruzd, A., Gülgün, B. S., Haydarov, R., Hurley, C., Astuti, S. I., Ishizumi, A., Johnson, N., Johnson Restrepo, D., Kajimoto, M., Koyuncu, A., Kulkarni, S., Lamichhane, J., Lewis, R., Mahajan, A., Mandil, A., Mcaweeney, E., Messer, M., Moy, W., Ndumbi Ngamala, P., Nguyen, T., Nunn, M., Omer, S. B., Pagliari, C., Patel, P., Phuong, L., Prybylski, D., Rashidian, A., Rempel, E., Rubinelli, S., Sacco, P., Schneider, A., Shu, K., Smith, M., Sufehmi, H., Tangcharoensathien, V., Terry, R., Thacker, N., Trewinnard, T., Turner, S., Tworek, H., Uakkas, S., Vraga, E., Wardle, C., Wasserman, H., Wilhelm, E., Würz, A., Yau, B., Zhou, L. & Purnat, T. D., 15 Sept 2021, In: JMIR Infodemiology. 1, 1, p. e30979
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Open Access
Digitally-enabled primary care: Past, present and prospects
Pagliari, C., 2 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Global Health. 11, 01005, p. 1-9 9 p., 01005.
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Open Access
File
How Shades of Truth and Age Affect Responses to COVID-19 (Mis)Information: Randomized Survey Experiment among WhatsApp Users in UK and Brazil
Vijaykumar, S., Jin, Y. & Pagliari, C., 23 Mar 2021, In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
File

Researchers Continue Quest to Contain Spread of COVID-19: Digital technologies aim to accelerate contact tracing
Claudia Pagliari
30/06/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Santosh Vijaykumar
29/06/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
WhatsApp-funded study on fake news kicks off in four states
Claudia Pagliari
9/05/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Project or Organisational News Item

6 Invited talk
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1 Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Use of Social Media for Health Communication and Health Surveillance: Opportunities, ethics and politics
Claudia Pagliari (Invited speaker)
13 Jun 2022 → 14 Jun 2022
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Advances in Social Listening for Public Health
Claudia Pagliari (Participant)
4 May 2021 → 12 May 2021
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Fake news! Politicisation and commodification of infectious disease in a time of existential crisis.
Claudia Pagliari (Invited speaker)
3 Feb 2021
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

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