Publication details
COVID-19 infodemie
| Title in English | COVID-19 Infodemic |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The book deals with the phenomenon of infodemic, i.e. the spread of excessive amounts of false or inaccurate information about a health problem (e.g. a virus, epidemic, pandemic, etc.), which makes it difficult to find an effective solution. The World Health Organization (WHO) started using the term infodemia in the beginning of 2020 – in connection with the global pandemic COVID-19. The authors' team led by Václav Moravec examines in detail the factors contributing to the development of infodemic (e.g. unpreparedness of public health institutions to deal with a pandemic, political exploitation/abuse of pandemics, low level of media and health literacy of the population, information overload in society, media chasing ratings, etc.). The dominant part of the publication is the manifestations of infodemic in the domestic media landscape (e.g. disinformation narratives in the early days of the pandemic and their spread, inappropriate use of war metaphors by journalists, inaccurate handling of numbers by the media, live monitoring of the pandemic without taking into account the wider context, etc.). The book is also supplemented by a clear explanatory glossary of key terms in relation to the suppression of the COVID-19 infodemic. |
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