Infodemic Disorder: Covid-19 Coping Strategies in Europe, Canada and Mexico

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Covid-19 and the Global Crisis of Information: an Introduction
	References
Chapter 2: Infodemic Disorder: Covid-19 and Post-truth
	1 Introduction: “We’re Not Just Fighting an Epidemic; We’re Fighting an Infodemic”
	2 The Relationship Between Information and Health in the Connected Society
	3 Infodemics Between Crisis of Trust and Information Disorder
		3.1 Information Quality from Opposing Points of View
		3.2 Information Selection and Infodemics
	4 Infodemics and Post-Truth
	5 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 3: A Review of Some Covid-19 Pandemic Numbers in European Union, Canada, and Mexico
	1 Introduction
	2 Waves of Covid-19 Infection in Canada, the EU, and Mexico
	3 Canada
		3.1 Weekly New Cases
		3.2 Weekly Deaths
		3.3 Weekly ICU Admissions
	4 The European Union
		4.1 Weekly New Cases
		4.2 Weekly Deaths
		4.3 Weekly ICU Admissions
	5 Mexico
		5.1 Weekly New Cases
		5.2 Weekly Deaths
	6 Covid-19 in Canada, the EU, and Mexico: Similarities and Differences in the Effects of Infection
		6.1 Weekly New Cases per Million People
		6.2 Weekly Deaths per Million People
		6.3 Weekly ICU Admissions per Million People
		6.4 The Rt Index’s Trends in the 68-Week Interval
	7 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 4: We Are All Europeans. EU Institutions Facing the Covid-19 Pandemic and Information Crisis
	1 Introduction
	2 The Role of Public Sector Communication in Contemporary Informative Environments
		2.1 European Communication Management. The European Multilevel Model
	3 European Strategies: Tackling Disinformation and Covid-19 Crisis
		3.1 Reacting to Covid-19 Against Domestic Paralysis
		3.2 The European Fight Against Covid Disinformation
		3.3 The Problematic Relationship with Platforms During Covid-19 Crisis
	4 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 5: The Practice of Emergency Gatewatching During the First Phase of the Pandemic. An Analysis Through the Tweets in Italian, Spanish, French and German
	1 Introduction
	2 Literature Review
	3 Method
	4 Data Analysis
		4.1 Analysis of Italian Tweets
		4.2 Analysis of Spanish Tweets
		4.3 Analysis of French Tweets
		4.4 Analysis of German Tweets
	5 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 6: The Covid-19 Pandemic in Canadian Newspapers: An Analysis of the Journalistic Articles as Risk and Crisis Messages
	1 Introduction
	2 Crisis and Risk Communication
	3 “Crisis and Media” or “Media in Crisis”?
	4 Analytical Framework
		4.1 Who?
		4.2 What?
		4.3 How?
	5 Methodology
		5.1 Corpus
		5.2 Analysis
	6 Canadian Coverage of the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
		6.1 What Did the Articles on the Pandemic Contain?
		6.2 How Were the Journalistic Articles About the Pandemic Written?
	7 Discussion
		7.1 Internalization
		7.2 Distribution
		7.3 Explanation
		7.4 Action
	8 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Disinformation in the Age of the Covid-19 Pandemic: How Does Belief in Fake News and Conspiracy Theories Affect Canadians’ Reactions to the Crisis?
	1 Introduction
	2 Methodology
		2.1 Measurements and Analysis
		2.2 Belief in Pandemic-Related Conspiracy Theories
		2.3 Belief in Pandemic-Related Fake News
		2.4 Sociodemographic Variables
		2.5 News Habits
		2.6 Attitudes Toward Social and Health Measures, Experts, Authorities, and the Media
	3 What Proportion of the Canadian Respondents Believe Pandemic-Related Conspiracy Theories and Fake News?
		3.1 Are Certain Socio-demographic Characteristics of the Respondents Associated with Belief in Pandemic-Related Conspiracy Theories and Fake News?
		3.2 Are the News Habits of the Respondents Associated with Belief in Pandemic-Related Conspiracy Theories and Fake News?
		3.3 Are the Social Attitudes of the Respondents Associated with Belief in Pandemic-Related Conspiracy Theories and Fake News?
	4 Discussion
	References
Chapter 8: Analysis of the Mexican Communication Plan to Control the Covid-19 Epidemic
	1 Introduction
	2 Frame of Reference
	3 Method
		3.1 Data Gathering
		3.2 Analysis Categories
	4 Results
		4.1 Hugo López-Gatell
		4.2 Mexican President, AMLO
	5 Susana Distancia Spots
		5.1 Constant Elements of the Spots per Month
		5.2 Analysis
	6 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 9: Social Media Interactions in Mexico About the SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Plan
	1 Introduction
	2 Theoretical Framework
	3 Method
		3.1 Study Categories
		3.2 Data Search Strategy
		3.3 The Study on Episode 1
		3.4 The Study on Episode 2
		3.5 The Study on Episode 3
	4 The Analysis of the Results of Episode 1
		4.1 Reflection About the Vaccination Plan in WhatsApp
		4.2 Reflections About the Vaccination Plan in Facebook
		4.3 Comments About the Senior Citizens’ Health in Both Social Networks
		4.4 Emotional Comments on Both Virtual Spaces
		4.5 Aggressive Comments in Both Social Media
		4.6 Political Comments in Both Virtual Spaces
	5 The Analysis of the Results of Episode 2
	6 The Analysis of the Results of Episode 3
		6.1 Lorenzo Meyer Cossío’s Wall
			Reflection About the Vaccination Plan
			Political-Aggressive Comments
		6.2 Sergio Aguayo Quezada’s Wall
			Emotional and Political-Aggressive Comments
	7 Discussion and Analysis
		7.1 Reflection Narrative
		7.2 Emotional Narrative
		7.3 The Authority Discourse Narrative
		7.4 The Aggression Narrative
	8 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 10: Rethinking Our Interpretation Processes: Some Evidence
	1 Introduction
	2 The Sense and Sensemaking
	3 From the Study to the Construction of Retrospective Sensemaking
	4 Drawing the Information Crisis-Scape
	References
Index