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2021, Academia Letters
International Journal of Information Science and Management
Misinfodemic and cyberchondria experiences among Indians During COVID-19 pandemic2022 •
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the surge of various kinds of misinformation, hoax, conspiracy theories, and rumours which have challenged the health systems all over the globe. The present study explored how Indians responded to the Misinfodemic, as a notice as well as an information sharer during the deadly pandemic. The study also elucidated the cyberchondria experiences among the Indians due to the misinfodemic. An online survey questionnaire was used to identify the respondents and to collect the needed data for the study (N=266). The result showed that the majority of the participants noticed misinformation regarding the outbreak on various internet platforms predominantly social media. The misinformation led the participants to a spectrum of mental health issues like stress, anxiety, anger, insomnia, and depression. 9.80 % of participants admitted themselves sharing misinformation regarding the outbreak and men did more compared to females (16.9% to 9.2%) (t143.006 = 1.572, p =.001). The misinfodemic resulted in increasing the health anxiety of the participants and there was no significant difference among the gender in experiencing health anxiety. The findings of the study provide functional insights for advancing communication research through misinformation correction and misperception management during these kinds of unknown (medicine and treatment) pandemic situations.
IGI Global Publishing
Cyberchondria, Health Literacy, and the Role of Media in Society’s Perception of Medical Information2022 •
Cyberchondria is characterized by a pattern of excessive health-based search behaviors that are likely to increase health anxiety or distress, heightened by ever-increasing access to and normalization of technology use and the internet specifically. The internet can be a source of valuable medical information and is an efficient vehicle for awareness-raising and dissemination; however, it can increase anxiety in audiences without medical knowledge or training and can pose a challenge to the traditional gatekeepers of medical knowledge and expertise. Technological advances are accelerating rapidly; however, concomitant to this acceleration, an epidemic of online mis- and dis-information that has the capacity to negatively impact general health, health literacy, and health behaviors globally now exists. The World Health Organization (WHO) has described this information overload as an infodemic. The Handbook of Research on Cyberchondria, Health Literacy, and the Role of Media in Society’s Perception of Medical Information covers a wide range of topics from the characteristics and prevalence of cyberchondria to the pandemic policy response and cybersecurity issues relating to eHealth initiatives and pandemic-related surges in cybercrime. Therefore, this publication has transdisciplinary relevance to professionals from healthcare, government, law enforcement, academia, the technology sector, media, cybersecurity, and education. Graduate and undergraduate students may also find it to be a beneficial resource, not only in terms of the study of cyberchondria but also in terms of the psychological and sociological implications of global crisis events. One of the key messages of this book is as follows: All stakeholders must work together strategically to disseminate authentic public health messages during any global health crisis. They must work to reduce health-related anxiety mediated by technology and seek to improve critical thinking skills and global health literacy.
International Journal of Current Research and Review
Awareness on Spread of Misinformation and its Effect on Public with Regard to COVID-19JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
COVID- 19 misinformation on the internet: The other epidemy (Preprint)2020 •
Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease
Mis-infodemic: The Achilles’ heel in combating the COVID-19 pandemic in an Indian perspectiveIn this ongoing SARS-CoV2 Corona virus pandemic, we are witnessing an uninhibited spread of mis-information on various social media platforms. This spread of mis-information or “mis-infodemic” is playing a negative role in our fight against the virus with far reaching consequences. International organizations like the WHO and other governmental organizations have geared up to the occasion to limit the spread of these and bring clarity in this context. In this time of crisis, risk communication is vital in the communication between organizations/government and the people. But apart from the organizations, the onus is on the people and media to realise the importance and verify the authenticity of information being circulated. It is imperative that information, being a double edged sword, is handled with caution and effective communication strategies are devised for the dissemination of accurate and scientific health related information. Social media can be used in a constructive way ...
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research
Indian Social Media Leads to Misinformation on COVID192020 •
Fake news is the most common issue these days. As we know the NOVEL COVID19 started from China and now globally people are infected by this virus. Fake news has many faces and it has turned on the worst face for the whole nation. News has own minor and major aspects because information shapes the new world. We take lots of important decisions on the bases of information. We create a view of the new information. So, we see false pieces of information on social networking sites that are harmful to the society. Sometimes these types of information spread rapidly and people take them seriously. That's why people should make sure when they forward the picture or message i.e. they should check the source of that particular message, video, picture, etc. My study focuses on the misinformation on COVID19 and find out how aware people are of fake news and information related to it.
2022 •
Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi/26306220
The COVID-19 Infodemic: Misinformation About Health on Social Media in Istanbul2022 •
The number of people looking for online health information has rapidly increased in recent years, and is still increasing. Among the consequences of such a phenomenon, several scholars and professionals identified a new form of widespread hypochondria, which is known as “cyberchondria” or “web–hypochondria”. There are hundreds of data available on the Web that do not reassure health seekers at all, but rather lead them to compulsively look for new information, also making them believe that they suffer from (or may easily suffer from) specific diseases without a reliable diagnosis. In other words, common hypochondria — i.e. the debilitating condition resulting from a dysfunction in the perception of the condition of body or mind in the absence of evidence of organic pathology (Avia and Ruiz 2005) — has progressively turned into hyperchondria — i.e. a new, amplified, and unrestrained form of “mass hypochondria”, which finds in the Web its privileged means of communication. This paper aims at analysing the communicative processes and the meaning–making dynamics related to health communication in the Web era by making reference to the specific case of the MMR vaccine, which has widely spread through the Internet and has had important consequences on people’s thoughts ad behaviours. Finally, the results of such an analysis are related to a more general discussion on virality and its functioning logics.
Mass Communicator: International Journal of Communication Studies
COVID-19 MISINFORMATION ON FACEBOOK: BANGLADESH CONTEXT2020 •
This research describes how unconsciousness and anxiety spread through Facebook during the coronavirus crisis in Bangladesh. The study analyzes the content of a total of 73 selected fake content related to COVID-19 on Facebook between February to June 2020. Researchers examine the features of the known fake news by placing the content in certain categories and explore how Facebook users post false information without crosschecking and make the public Panick. This work shows that, in some cases, mainstream media cover the wrong story by posting it on their website page, post it to social media, and result in users believing in such non-authentic content. But myths, misinformation, and fraud fuel up making it more difficult for the government to reduce risk, and the health crisis due to Covid -19 pandemic is turning into a national economic crisis as well. The paper also provides several suggestions by asking media to provide accurate information and increase public awareness to avoid the spread of misinformation.
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