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An analysis of the academic literature on fake news during Covid-19 pandemic / Noor Rahmawati Alias... [et al.]

Covid-19-related fake news has brought many negative impacts in the global community in many different aspects. The spread of the novel coronavirus which initially started in 2019, and that later was announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), has resulted in the emergence of in...

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Main Authors: Alias, Noor Rahmawati, Md Radzi, Salliza, Ahmad Zukarnain, Zuriani, Hamidon, Huda, Arifin, Noorfadzilah
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Kelantan 2020
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Dissertations, Academic. Preparation of theses
Educational accountability
Health behavior and habits
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40179/1/40179.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.401792021-01-06T06:33:37Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40179/ An analysis of the academic literature on fake news during Covid-19 pandemic / Noor Rahmawati Alias... [et al.] Alias, Noor Rahmawati Md Radzi, Salliza Ahmad Zukarnain, Zuriani Hamidon, Huda Arifin, Noorfadzilah Dissertations, Academic. Preparation of theses Educational accountability Health behavior and habits Covid-19-related fake news has brought many negative impacts in the global community in many different aspects. The spread of the novel coronavirus which initially started in 2019, and that later was announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), has resulted in the emergence of infodemic causing difficulties to governments and subjects. This study was carried out to identify the subject areas of research ever conducted which related to fake news on Covid-19 and the impacts caused by this false information phenomenon. Literature analysis of documents published in the SCOPUS online database has been conducted and it was found that previous research on Covid-19-related misinformation occurred in multiple subject areas of which are prominent in the medicine and social sciences field. The impact of this infodemic ranges from health, political, legal, and other social effects. It can be concluded that in order to minimise the confusion and risks of the infodemic, the digital and health literacy of the citizen has to be improved, apart from the government responsibilities and social media providers monitoring and controlling the dissemination of falsehood and rumours among various parties Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Kelantan 2020-12 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40179/1/40179.pdf Alias, Noor Rahmawati and Md Radzi, Salliza and Ahmad Zukarnain, Zuriani and Hamidon, Huda and Arifin, Noorfadzilah (2020) An analysis of the academic literature on fake news during Covid-19 pandemic / Noor Rahmawati Alias... [et al.]. Journal of Contemporary Social Science Research, 4 (2). pp. 40-48. ISSN 0128-2697
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topic Dissertations, Academic. Preparation of theses
Educational accountability
Health behavior and habits
spellingShingle Dissertations, Academic. Preparation of theses
Educational accountability
Health behavior and habits
Alias, Noor Rahmawati
Md Radzi, Salliza
Ahmad Zukarnain, Zuriani
Hamidon, Huda
Arifin, Noorfadzilah
An analysis of the academic literature on fake news during Covid-19 pandemic / Noor Rahmawati Alias... [et al.]
description Covid-19-related fake news has brought many negative impacts in the global community in many different aspects. The spread of the novel coronavirus which initially started in 2019, and that later was announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), has resulted in the emergence of infodemic causing difficulties to governments and subjects. This study was carried out to identify the subject areas of research ever conducted which related to fake news on Covid-19 and the impacts caused by this false information phenomenon. Literature analysis of documents published in the SCOPUS online database has been conducted and it was found that previous research on Covid-19-related misinformation occurred in multiple subject areas of which are prominent in the medicine and social sciences field. The impact of this infodemic ranges from health, political, legal, and other social effects. It can be concluded that in order to minimise the confusion and risks of the infodemic, the digital and health literacy of the citizen has to be improved, apart from the government responsibilities and social media providers monitoring and controlling the dissemination of falsehood and rumours among various parties
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author Alias, Noor Rahmawati
Md Radzi, Salliza
Ahmad Zukarnain, Zuriani
Hamidon, Huda
Arifin, Noorfadzilah
author_facet Alias, Noor Rahmawati
Md Radzi, Salliza
Ahmad Zukarnain, Zuriani
Hamidon, Huda
Arifin, Noorfadzilah
author_sort Alias, Noor Rahmawati
title An analysis of the academic literature on fake news during Covid-19 pandemic / Noor Rahmawati Alias... [et al.]
title_short An analysis of the academic literature on fake news during Covid-19 pandemic / Noor Rahmawati Alias... [et al.]
title_full An analysis of the academic literature on fake news during Covid-19 pandemic / Noor Rahmawati Alias... [et al.]
title_fullStr An analysis of the academic literature on fake news during Covid-19 pandemic / Noor Rahmawati Alias... [et al.]
title_full_unstemmed An analysis of the academic literature on fake news during Covid-19 pandemic / Noor Rahmawati Alias... [et al.]
title_sort analysis of the academic literature on fake news during covid-19 pandemic / noor rahmawati alias... [et al.]
publisher Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Kelantan
publishDate 2020
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40179/1/40179.pdf
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