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Tobias and Syd: A research-based podcast audio-drama about tobacco
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 103-126
"We report on an experiment that used podcast audio-drama as a medium to generate impact from academic outputs in a creative, inclusive and collaborative way. Tobias and Syd was a serialized podcast audio-drama published in January 2023 based on ideas contained in the book Anthropology of Tobacco an
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Télévision et santé: Conditions de production des émissions télévisées de santé à Kinshasa
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 138 pp.
"La production d’émissions de santé publique à la télévision à Kinshasa contribue à la sensibilisation, la diffusion et l’éducation de la population sur des thématiques et des informations sanitaires : les maladies transmissibles, la santé maternelle et infantile…
Cependant, pour l
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Challenges of Journalists Across All Continents in the Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 9 (2025), pp. 2019-2040
"During the COVID-19 crisis, journalists doubled efforts to keep societies informed, safe, and disease-free. The study examines and compares specific challenges that journalists, based in diverse world regions, confronted during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey was conducted with 215 journalists work
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How Do You Explain ChatGPT to a Community Health Worker?
ICTworks, December 2 (2025)
"I’ve been diving deep into groundbreaking research on community health worker (CHW) perceptions of AI applications in rural India. The truth is more complex than the rosy predictions flooding our sector about artificial intelligence transforming global health. The findings expose a troubling gap
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Don’t Talk to Strangers? The Role of Network Composition, WhatsApp Groups, and Partisanship in Explaining Beliefs in Misinformation About COVID-19 in Brazil
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, volume 22, issue 1 (2025), pp. 113-130
"The spread of disinformation has been a topic of heightened concern, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the response to a public health crisis relies on the ability for public officials to inform citizens. Using a representative two-wave panel of internet users in Brazil, we examine the
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Gestion de la communication publique dans une situation de crise sanitaire mondiale: Cas de la Covid-19 en Côte d'Ivoire, 2020-2022
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 173 pp.
"Le 11 mars 2020, la Côte d'Ivoire enregistrait son premier cas confirmé de personne atteinte de COVID-19. Dès lors à l'instar de nombreux pays dans le monde, plusieurs actions ont alors été entreprises par le gouvernement ivoirien pour apporter une riposte à la crise. Cette riposte nationale
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Antimicrobial resistance: Toolkit for media engagement
Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO); FAO; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2024), vii, 40 pp.
“We don’t believe in [the] Coronavirus; we believe in Allah. Whatever happens, it happens from Allah”: Pakistani media’s response to countering conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic
Newspaper Research Journal, volume 46, issue 1 (2024), pp. 6-28
"This study examines the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic by the four leading newspapers of Pakistan—Dawn, The News, Daily Times and The Nation—when they were responsible for informing and educating the public during a health crisis hit by conspiracy theories. The researchers utilized content a
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Systematic Literature Review on Public Engagement via Government Social Media during the COVID-19 Crisis
Red Fame, volume 12, issue 3 (2024), pp. 188-200
"Public engagement on government social media platforms can boost public trust in government while also improving and speeding up the distribution of health information. The importance of public engagement and its widespread existence have promoted extensive academic research on this channel. The pu
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Pandemics in the Age of Social Media: Information and Misinformation in Developing Nations
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xviii, 191 pp.
"This book offers insights into social media practices and challenges in developing nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering different aspects of social media during the pandemic, the book offers new frameworks, concepts, tools and techniques for integrating social media to support national de
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Doctors for the truth: Latin American antivaccine oppositional cultures on Telegram
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 15 pp.
"The antivaccine hesitancy movement represents a challenge to public policy and platform regulations. During COVID-19, various Latin American antivaccine groups clashed with official sanitary initiatives. Despite many responses, little progress has been made in reaching these groups to transform the
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Funny Enough: Incorporating Humor Into Health Messages to Promote Breast Self-Examination Behavior
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 4441-4467
"Using the extended parallel process model (PPM), this research examines whether and how humor functions to influence women’s breast self-examination (BSE) intention. We conducted a 2 (humor: present vs. absent) × 2 (threat: high vs. low) × 2 (efficacy: high vs. low) between-subjects experiment
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Experientially simulated others: Finding social support for mental health in digital games
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 17 pp.
"People with mental illness struggle to find connection and community due to a combination of stigma, social isolation, and adverse social experiences. Digital games, as an immersive and interactive media, can convey aspects of mental health experiences in thoughtful ways. I considered how players c
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Challenges and Opportunities for Journalism in the Bulgarian COVID-19 Communication Ecology
Journalism Practice, volume 18, issue 1 (2024), pp. 119-136
"The coronavirus pandemic brought immense challenges to journalists worldwide, including new threats to media freedom, journalism safety and practice. The impact of the pandemic on journalism is yet to be fully understood and examined but this paper contributes to the field by focusing on the impact
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Health information systems in extreme contexts: Using mobile phones to fight AIDS in Uganda
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), issue e12314 (2024), 16 pp.
"The HIV/AIDS pandemic is a global issue that has unequally affected several countries. Due to the complexity of this condition and the human drama it represents to those most affected by it, several fields have contributed to solving or at least alleviating this situation, and the information syste
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Have people ‘had enough of experts’? The impact of populism and pandemic misinformation on institutional trust in comparative perspective
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 22 pp.
"Public trust in institutions is a key prerequisite for effective crisis management. However, the rise of populism and misinformation in recent years made it increasingly difficult to maintain institutional trust. Despite this recognition, we still lack a systematic understanding of how exposure to
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Forte FM’s Programming Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Alice, South Africa
Communicatio, volume 50, issue 3 (2024), pp. 106-124
"The advent of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in 2019 brought great fear of the unknown to the whole world. It therefore became very important for people and nations around the world to get the needed information on how to cope with the novel virus. Community radio broadcasting was at t
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Vaccination Communication Strategies and Uptake in Africa: A Systematic Review
Vaccines, volume 12, issue 1333 (2024), 31 pp.
"African countries experience high rates of infectious diseases that are mostly preventable by vaccination. Despite the risks of infections and other adverse outcomes, vaccination coverage in the African region remains significantly low. Poor vaccination knowledge is a contributory factor, and effec
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News Distortion in Times of Crises: Covid-19 Case in the Arab Media
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5222-5246
"This article investigates news distortion within the Arab media ecosystem, as manifested on Arab media Facebook pages and perceived by Arab journalists during the COVID-19 pandemic. A textual analysis was conducted on 6 news Facebook pages affiliated with major local media channels in 6 Arab countr
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