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Opinion: Black People Need Better Covid-19 Vaccine Access, Not Better Vaccine Attitudes | The New York Times
by Rhea Boyd
March 8, 2021
Despite having one of the highest risks of dying from Covid-19, about twice that of white Americans, Black Americans remain…
Official Information About COVID-19 Is Reaching Fewer Black People on Facebook | The Markup
by Corin Faife and Dara Kerr
March 5, 2021
Official information about COVID-19 safety and vaccines is reaching fewer Black people on Facebook than other demographic groups, according to…
Misinformation as Motivated Reasoning: Experimental Evidence | Shorenstein Center
March 3, 2021
There are competing accounts for the partisan divisions occurring throughout American life. One is that they are genuine divides due…
Job Opportunity: Assistant/Associate Professor | University of Maryland
by University of Maryland
March 2, 2021
The College of Information Studies (Maryland’s iSchool) invites applications for an open rank tenure-track position (with preference for Assistant or…
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy plummets among Black and Latino Americans — but not white Republicans | Yahoo News
by Tim O'Donnell
March 2, 2021
As the United States adds another COVID-19 vaccine to its arsenal and ramps up its distribution drive, potentially pushing the country closer…
From HPV to Covid-19: Personal stories power anti-vaccine misinformation | First Draft
by Lydia Morrish
February 25, 2021
For more than a decade, misinformation has hindered uptake of the vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), the common sexually transmitted…
A Vaccination against the Pandemic of Misinformation | Scientific American
by Serggio Lanata and Bruce L. Miller
February 23, 2021
The U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been fractious. Many citizens, spurred on by political leaders and even some…
Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation: Motivations for Sharing Misinformation: A Comparative Study in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries | International Journal of Communication
by Dani Madrid-Morales, Herman Wasserman, Gregory Gondwe, Khulekani Ndlovu, Etse Sikanku, Melissa Tully, Emeka Umejei, and Chikezie Uzuegbunam
February 22, 2021
In most African countries, “fake news,” politically motivated disinformation, and misinformation in the media were common occurrences before these became…
The COVID States Project #39: Public attitudes towards the storming of the Capitol building | OSF Preprints
by David Lazer et al.
February 17, 2021
The 2020 election produced two distinct perceived realities for the United States public. The first perceived reality holds that the…