The causes, impacts and countermeasures of COVID-19 “Infodemic”: A systematic review using narrative synthesis

W Pian, J Chi, F Ma - Information processing & management, 2021 - Elsevier
An unprecedented infodemic has been witnessed to create massive damage to human
society. However, it was not thoroughly investigated. This systematic review aims to (1) …

Public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: Lessons from communication science

X Nan, IA Iles, B Yang, Z Ma - Health communication, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that effective public health messaging is an
indispensable component of a robust pandemic response system. In this article, we review …

Working with AI to persuade: Examining a large language model's ability to generate pro-vaccination messages

E Karinshak, SX Liu, JS Park, JT Hancock - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a transformative force in communication and messaging strategy,
with potential to disrupt traditional approaches. Large language models (LLMs), a form of AI …

Defining and measuring scientific misinformation

BG Southwell, JSB Brennen, R Paquin… - The ANNALS of the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We define scientific misinformation as publicly available information that is misleading or
deceptive relative to the best available scientific evidence and that runs contrary to …

Health misinformation exposure and health disparities: observations and opportunities

BG Southwell, J Otero Machuca… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The concepts of health misinformation and health disparities have been prominent in public
health literature in recent years, in part because of the threat that each notion poses to public …

[HTML][HTML] Misinformed by images: How images influence perceptions of truth and what can be done about it

EJ Newman, N Schwarz - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
We organize image types by their substantive relationship with textual claims and discuss
their impact on attention, comprehension, memory, and judgment. Photos do not need to be …

Missing the bigger picture: The need for more research on visual health misinformation

K Heley, A Gaysynsky, AJ King - Science Communication, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Research shows that health misinformation is widespread online and poses a potentially
significant threat to public health. Visual misinformation has been largely overlooked, a …

How people process different types of health misinformation: Roles of content falsity and evidence type

X Zhao, SJ Tsang - Health Communication, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Emerging communication technologies have seen the proliferation of misleading claims,
untruthful narratives, and conspiracies. To understand how people perceive and act on …

A sco** review of emerging COVID-19 health communication research in communication and media journals

T Lin, X Nan - Health Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article reports a sco** review of emerging research on COVID-19 health
communication. We reviewed and analyzed 206 articles published in 40 peer-reviewed …

Social media narratives can influence vaccine intentions: the impact of depicting regret and character death

M Pokharel, HM Lillie, K Nagatsuka, JB Barbour… - Computers in Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anticipated regret, the feeling that we might regret a decision in the future, has been
identified as a strong predictor of vaccination behavior, and the proliferation of anticipated …