Covid-19 Misinformation Flows: Challenges and Options for Reconstructing and Disseminating Mediated Messages [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction: The Sociology of Communicating Pandemics and the Objective of this Book

Part I: Misconceptions Communicated 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 COVID19 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 COVID19 for Sustainable Health in a Multi-Cultural Nation-Nigeria

7. Journalistic Challenges in Covering COVID19 News Stories in Bangladesh

8. Newspaper as National Propaganda Tool: How the People's Daily Overseas Newspaper Communicated China's Image during the COVID19 Pandemic

9. User Engagement of Bangladesh Government Agencies and Nonprofit 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 Easló: