Reframing The Counternarration of Misinformation During Pandemic

A Prebunking Strategy of Intervention (1^st Phase)

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220407.109How to use a DOI?

Keywords

religious misinformation; COVID-19; intervention; counternarrative; prebunking

Abstract

During the pandemic, more than 1800 misinformation of COVID-19 had been produced and circulated among people, creating massive damage, and hindering public health measures to control the pandemic in Indonesia (Kominfo, 2021; Indicators, 2021; Unicef, 2020). The misinformation creates fear and anxiety, also erode public trust in health initiatives. To combat the misinformation, exercise fact-checking and anti-hoax campaigns are not sufficient. The strategy should also entail a counter-narration effort to challenge the misinformation. This research aimed to design a counter-narration effort to contest the religious misinformation of COVID-19 by employing a social inoculation approach as a theoretical framework. A prebunking strategy is expected as the outcome of this paper, which targeted young people in local universities. The first phase of this research aims to discover young people’s ability to assess Covid-19 misinformation before moving to the next stage, focusing on developing the counternarrative strategy. The result shows that young people ability in identifying hoaxes and address valid information is moderate.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Santi Indra Astuti
AU  - Rita Gani
AU  - Ratri Rizki
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/23
TI  - Reframing The Counternarration of Misinformation During Pandemic
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Social and Humanities Research Symposium (SoRes 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 529
EP  - 533
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220407.109
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220407.109
ID  - Astuti2022
ER  -