Covid-19 has shone a torch on the role of social media as an information environment and there is more attention than ever on the ‘infodemic’ accompanying the pandemic.
We’re still in the process of working out exactly what ‘healthier’ means in this context, but we think it involves proactively making high quality health information easier to find and trust, and more resilient to misinformation.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, we had already been collecting projects big and small from around the world that focus on social media. This was part of a rapid mapping exercise to find projects addressing vaccine misinformation on social media. You will find these projects visualised here.
From global communication campaigns run by international health organisations, to digital literacy games developed by start-ups, to new algorithms by technology companies, these are projects that tackle the online spread
of vaccine misinformation and other types of health misinformation.
There are also some innovative examples that aren’t health specific.
Covid-19 will likely mean an explosion of new projects seeking to address
the infodemic. So it’s best to view what you see visualised on Healthier Internet as a snapshot of the landscape in the beginning of 2020 when this research was undertaken, before Covid-19. Our hope is that by sharing this collection of health information and misinformation projects, we can show how other organisations have already responded.
We also want to keep the picture of what is happening up to date,
so have created an open database that we encourage you to view
and suggest new initiatives.
Healthier Internet was researched and developed by Shift, funded
by Wellcome. If you have any questions or comments, do contact hello@shiftdesign.org
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View and add to the open database
Covid-19 has shone a torch on the role of social media as an information environment and there is more attention than ever on the ‘infodemic’ accompanying the pandemic.
We’re still in the process of working out exactly what ‘healthier’ means in this context, but we think it involves proactively making high quality health information easier to find and trust,
and more resilient to misinformation.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, we had already been collecting projects big and small from around the world that focus on social media. This was part of a rapid mapping exercise to find projects addressing vaccine misinformation on social media. You will find these projects visualised here.
From global communication campaigns run
by international health organisations, to digital literacy games developed by start-ups, to new algorithms by technology companies, these are projects that tackle the online spread of vaccine misinformation and other types of health misinformation. There are also some innovative examples that aren’t health specific.
Covid-19 will likely mean an explosion of new projects seeking to address the infodemic.
So it’s best to view what you see visualised
on Healthier Internet as a snapshot of the landscape in the beginning of 2020 when this research was undertaken, before Covid-19.
Our hope is that by sharing this collection of health information and misinformation projects,
we can show how other organisations have already responded.
We also want to keep the picture of what is happening up to date, so have created an open database that we encourage you to view and suggest new initiatives to.
Healthier Internet was researched and developed by Shift, funded by Wellcome.
If you have any questions or comments,
do contact hello@shiftdesign.org
View and add to the open database
About
Welcome to Healthier Internet. We are looking for ways to make
the internet a healthier platform for health information.
Welcome to Healthier Internet. We are looking for ways to make the internet a healthier platform for health information.
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