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What is an Infodemic?

Infodemic is defined as people’s anxiety in reaching reliable and accurate information during the crises such as a pandemic, earthquake or terrorist attacks due to the swift spread of misinformation. As the need for information during the crises increases, people may have difficulty making a distinction between true and false information, and it causes the spread of infodemic. Thus, the infodemic becomes an obstacle for people to find accurate guides and leads to public health problems.

Online Training Tool

This lecture focuses on understanding the dynamics of the spread of misinformation, explains why and how the misinformation spreads and aims to increase the people’s resilience to infodemic. The online training tool includes suggested readings and quizzes beside the video contents for users to reach their learning objectives in each module.

The participants will receive a certificate after finishing the training.

Course Modules
Basic Concepts
Information Ecosystems
Political and Social Structure
Infodemic in Pandemic Era
Social Effects of Infodemic
Fact-Checking
International and Local Institutions
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what is an infodemic?

infodemic is defined as people’s uneasiness to reach a reliable and accurate information during the crises such as pandemic, earthquake or terrorist attacks due to the very fast spread of misinformation. as the need for information during the crises increases, people may have a difficulty to make a distinction between true and false information and it causes the spread of infodemic. thus the infodemic becomes an obstacle for people to find an accurate guideness and also it leads to public health problems.

this lecture focuses on understanding the dynamics of the spread of misinformation, explains why and how the misinformation spreads and aims to increase the people’s resilience to infodemic. In each module, online training tool includes suggested readings and quizes beside the video contents for users to reach their learning objectives.

the participants will recieve a certificate after finishing the training.

basic concepts
information ecosystem
political and social climate
infodemic in the pandemic era
social effects of infodemic
fact checking
international and local institutions

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