Covid-19 Misinformation Flows - Challenges Options for Reconstructing Disseminating Mediated

This book describes challenges in accessing, collecting, processing, and disseminating information on pandemics, with a focus on Covid-19 communication. This book will interest scholars and students of health communication, social media communication, journalism, political communication and media and communication in the Global South.

List of contents

Introduction: The sociology of communicating pandemics and the objective of this book
Part I: Communicated Misconceptions about Covid-19
1. Challenges and wins in Communicating Pandemics Globally: A look back at Covid-19
2. Newspapers Coverage of Conspiracy Theories of Health Pandemics in Nigeria: A Case Study of Covid 19
3. Infodemic and Misinformation on YouTube about Covid-19
4. How community Radio stations led proper communication and addressed miscommunication of COVID-19 issues in South Africa
Part II: Experiences in Communicating Pandemics in Central Africa and Asia
5. Newspaper Reportage of COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh and Nigeria
6. Communicating and managing Covid-19 for Sustainable Health in a Multi-Cultural Nation-Nigeria
7. Journalistic challenges in covering COVID-19 news stories in Bangladesh
8. Newspaper as National Propaganda Tool: How the People's Daily Overseas Newspaper Communicated China's Image during Covid-19
9. User Engagement of Bangladesh Government Agencies and Non-Profit Organizations' Sharing of COVID-19 Information on Facebook
10. Analysis of Migrant Workers' demise and media failures during the Pandemic
Part III: Social Media use and Misinformation on health issues in the Middle East
11. News and Misinformation in social media in the United Arab Emirates during covid-19 Pandemic
12. Information, Anxiety and Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) during Covid-19
Part IV: Media shenanigans, disinformation and actions for communicating pandemics for constructive change
13. Using Latin American Legislation and inter-American Standards to Combat Disinformation on Health Issues
14. Reconstructing news and information for the consumption of constructive messaging about COVID-19: Administrative approaches to redirecting Minority Populations towards sustainable treatment Measures
Conclusions: Charting futures for mediated messaging on epidemics
Index

About the author

Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Emmanuel K. (University of North Caroli Ngwainmbi
• Assisted by: Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032735399
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3273539-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Research in Health Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; History, Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Africa, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Middle East, Press & journalism, The arts, Personal & public health, Humanities, Communication Studies, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Regional / International studies, News media and journalism, Medical Sociology, Personal and public health / health education, Global South / Developing countries