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Media Use: Youth
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Facebook
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Conspiracy Narratives, Conspiracy Theories
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Public Goods, Commons
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Health Communication
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Health Campaigns: Experiences
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Health Information Materials
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Media Assistance: Health Communication
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Sexual Health Communication, Reproductive Health Education, Family Planning
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Tuberculosis Communication
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Vaccination Campaigns & Vaccine Hesitancy
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Linguistic Diversity: Internet & Digital Media
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People with Disabilities: Access to & Use of ICT and Media
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Science Communication & Research Dissemination
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Inequalities
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Information Sources, Credibility, Knowledge, and Risk Perceptions: Findings from the National Tuberculosis Survey in South Korea
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 888-908
"This study explores the sources of tuberculosis (TB) information used by Koreans, focusing specifically on how sociodemographic variables influence perceptions of source credibility and how the use of different information sources influences TB-related knowledge levels and risk perceptions. Based o
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Building a Chatbot in a Pandemic
Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 25, issue e42960 (2023), 8 pp.
"Easy access to evidence-based information on COVID-19 within an infodemic has been a challenging task. Chatbots have been introduced in times of emergency, when human resources are stretched thin and individuals need a user-centered resource. The World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
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Digital Public Goods Platforms for Development: The Challenge of Scaling
Information Society, volume 38, issue 5 (2022), pp. 364-376
"In this article we consider the notion of digital global public good and articulate our understanding of it. Against this conceptual foil, we examine the development of DHIS2 (District Health Information Software Version 2), a global health platform inspired by public goods, focusing on the paradox
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Role of Information Sources in Vaccination Uptake: Insights from a Cross-Sectional Household Survey in Sierra Leone, 2019
Global Health: Science and Practice, volume 10, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-12
"Key findings: exposure to vaccination information from faith leaders and health facilities was associated with increased likelihood of vaccination uptake; the significant association between exposure to a greater number of immunization information sources and increased likelihood of vaccination upt
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Use of Digital Media for Family Planning Information by Women and Their Social Networks in Kenya: A Qualitative Study in Peri-Urban Nairobi
Frontiers in Sociology, volume 7 (2022), 10 pp.
"Access to information about family planning (FP) continues to have financial, physical and social barriers among young women living in Kenya. This paper draws on social norms theory to explore how young women and their social networks access FP information on digital media (e.g., WhatsApp, websites
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Handbook of Digital Inequality
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2022), xii, 386 pp.
"International contributors assess a variety of key contexts that impact access to digital technologies, including contextual variations related to geography and infrastructure, as well as individual differences related to age, income, health and disability status. Chapters explore how variations em
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An Ongoing Infodemic: How People in Eight Countries Access and Rate News and Information About Coronavirus a Year Into the Pandemic
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 37 pp.
"In almost all countries, news organisations are the single most widely used source of information about coronavirus. Furthermore, news organisations have become even more central to how people stay informed about coronavirus in the last year because, while overall reach has declined compared to ear
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Does the Platform Matter? Social Media and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Beliefs in 17 Countries
New Media & Society, volume 25, issue 12 (2021), pp. 3412-3437
"While the role of social media in the spread of conspiracy theories has received much attention, a key deficit in previous research is the lack of distinction between different types of platforms. This study places the role of social media affordances in facilitating the spread of conspiracy belief
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Digital Inequalities in the Global South
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvii, 372 pp.
"This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits,
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Navigating the ‘infodemic’: How People in Six Countries Access and Rate News and Information About Coronavirus
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 34 pp.
"In this report, we use survey data collected in late March and early April 2020 to document and understand how people in six countries (Argentina, Germany, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and the US) accessed news and information about COVID-19 in the early stages of the global pandemic, how they rate
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Exploring the Role of Communication in Community Health
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 48 pp.
"This report draws on two studies: first, a nationally representative quantitative survey, and, second, a qualitative study across three locations in Sierra Leone [...] Ninety-five per cent of research participants reported accessing health information in the previous three months – 93% receiving
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Les moyens de communication a Madagascar: Enquete d'audience 2004
UNICEF; Repoblikan'i Madagasikara (2004), 131 pp.
"L'enquête sur l'audience 2003 – 2004 fait suite aux précédentes enquêtes, menées en 1997 et en 1998 dans le cadre du programme de coopération Madagascar– UNICEF. Elle consiste à mettre à jour les données issues des précédentes enquêtes, mais également à identifier les canaux de co
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Evaluating INASP-Health: Final Report
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2004), 82 pp.
"INASP-Health is a UK-based programme that promotes international networking amongst all those involved in the provision and use of health information including librarians, publishers, biomedical researchers, funding agencies, development professionals, frontline healthcare providers, public health
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Medios y salud: La voz de los adolescentes. Informe regional
Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) (2003), 119 pp.
"'Medios y salud: La voz de los adolescentes' explora la relación existente entre los medios de comunicación, los adolescentes y la salud en adolescentes de 12 a 19 años de edad en varias localidades de 11 paÃses de América Latina, especialmente en términos del rol de los medios de comunicaciÃ
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