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Social media, positive news give hope amid pandemic in India

Suraj Kushe Shekhar
- Vol. 48, Iss: 4, pp 368-371
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the word “infodemic” refers to too much information, including false and misleading information circulating in digital and physical environments du...
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the word “infodemic” refers to too much information, including false and misleading information circulating in digital and physical environments du...

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Media and COVID-19 vaccine negligence in India

TL;DR: A novel disease was reported in December 2019 and it eventually became a global pandemic and the rapid spread became a public concern.
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Social Marketing Plan to Decrease the COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Senior Citizens in Rural India

Suraj Shekhar
- 21 Jun 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this paper , a comprehensive social marketing plan to address this social issue among senior citizens of rural India is presented, which uses social marketing principles and practices such as environmental analysis, STP strategies, strategies for formulating behavioral objectives and goals, examining the barriers, benefits, competitions, and influential others, strategy for integrated marketing mix, evaluation and monitoring strategies, and strategies for establishing budgets, raising funds and implementation plan.
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Death Anxiety and Mental Health: A Case Analysis of Vaccination Hesitancy and Intervention Techniques.

TL;DR: Even though the government of India is accelerating the vaccination drives (Shekhar & Jose, 2021), vaccination... as discussed by the authors, the largest vaccination drive in the world in Jan 2021 (Bagcchi, 2021).
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Social media and the dowry system in Kerala

TL;DR: Dowry has been an old practice of gift transaction at a wedding from the bride's family to the groom's family and it is a conditional gift in the form of money, valuables, or properties as discussed by the authors.
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Role of Information Technology in Food Tourism Marketing; A Critical Review of Social Media Channels

TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyze the role of information technology in food tourism marketing and critically review the various social media channels that are used for food tourism and show that these channels highly influence the perception, choices and decision of the food tourist at all the stages of travel.
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How to Fight an Infodemic: The Four Pillars of Infodemic Management.

TL;DR: From the perspective of being the first "infodemiolgist" who originally coined the term almost two decades ago, there are four pillars of infodemic management: information monitoring (infoveillance), building eHealth Literacy and science literacy capacity, encouraging knowledge refinement and quality improvement processes such as fact checking and peer-review, and accurate and timely knowledge translation.
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Leveraging media and health communication strategies to overcome the COVID-19 infodemic.

TL;DR: The “Infodemic Response Checklist” is proposed as a comprehensive tool to overcome the challenges posed by the current and any future infodemics and explore practical ways to leverage health communication strategies to overcome it.
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Analysis and predictions of spread, recovery, and death caused by COVID-19 in India

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a detailed study of recently developed forecasting models and predicted the number of confirmed, recovered, and death cases in India caused by COVID-19.
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Indian Media System: An Application of Comparative Media Approach

Sehrish Mushtaq, +1 more
- 01 Jul 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extended their work to ten more countries of Brazil, China, Israel, Lebanon, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Thailand with the help of other researchers.