#PROTOcall Episode 008 starts in half an hour! Topic: How creative visuals can improve COVID coverage. If you haven’t registered yet, do it now at: pro.to/call
Our hosts, journalist @nayantaran and @heyproto Community Manager @ameyann will be assisted by our Content Manager @sayakd who will be behind the scenes. Please reach out to him if you’re having any issues with the #PROTOcall. #CoveringCovid
Our guests:
• @Sanna_B_P, whose work has appeared in @BBC, @thewire_in, @NYMag
• @AltNewsScience founding editor @Neurophysik
• ex @WHO + @HKUniversity prof @poliohunt
will discuss how journalism can deal with people’s response to misinformation.
#PROTOcall
• @Sanna_B_P, whose work has appeared in @BBC, @thewire_in, @NYMag
• @AltNewsScience founding editor @Neurophysik
• ex @WHO + @HKUniversity prof @poliohunt
will discuss how journalism can deal with people’s response to misinformation.
#PROTOcall
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt As always this #PROTOcall is brought to you in collaboration with @ICFJ and @IJNet’s global health crisis reporting forum. Our partner for Episode 008 is @IAVI, and we would like to thank them for their support.
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI On our April 23 #PROTOcall we discussed how #misinformation spreads because most people don’t understand the science behind #COVID19. Today we are going to discuss how people react to #misinformation during a pandemic and what journalists can do to deal with that. #CoveringCovid
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI Does widespread panic make us more susceptible to spurious rumours? Does fear make us more gullible? Do journalists need to be more sensitive to these realities when #CoveringCovid? What can we do beyond simple fact checking? We’ll discuss all this and more in this #PROTOcall.
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI You can watch a live stream of today’s session right here on our Twitter page from 5 pm onwards! Keep watching this space… #PROTOcall #CoveringCovid
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI Of course, if you would rather actively participate and have your questions answered by experts than passively watch, you should register right away at pro.to/call and attend on @zoom_us.
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us We’ll start very shortly. Please ask your questions in the Q&A tab and feel free to converse in the chat box. Show us some love by tweeting with the hashtags #PROTOcall and #CoveringCovid. If you still haven’t registered: pro.to/call
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us We’re starting now! Log in for the #PROTOcall! #CoveringCovid
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us #PROTOcall 008 on ‘What can we do beyond #factchecks in an #infodemic’, with hosts @nayantaran and @ameyann, and guests @Sanna_B_P, @AltNewsScience’s @Neurophysik, ex @WHO + @HKUniversity prof @poliohunt. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us @nayantaran @ameyann Having studied and written about polio and SARS, @poliohunt tells us about the patterns he noticed in how the general public reacts to health and medical information that has an element of uncertainty. #PROTOcall #CoveringCovid
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us @nayantaran @ameyann .@poliohunt- When SARS surfaced, China pretty much covered it under the blanket. What we have seen during #COVID19, from January onwards, the whole world knew what has happening. #PROTOcall
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us @nayantaran @ameyann .@poliohunt- The whole world was sitting on “ringside view”, when this thing is happening. Nobody took it in so quickly except the country that was facing it. #PROTOcall
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us @nayantaran @ameyann .@poliohunt- You tend to look at the disease as something that foreigners are bringing it. There was a false sense of complacency. The government also projected that - we are acting on this. #PROTOcall
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us @nayantaran @ameyann .@poliohunt- Now that this is at the point of breaking into a rampage, governments across the world are saying that we are in control of the situation. #PROTOcall
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us @nayantaran @ameyann .@poliohunt- For example, if you are a hospital worker in Mumbai, you know that there is huge disjoint in reality. Then you see the mounting cases. #PROTOcall
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us @nayantaran @ameyann .@poliohunt- In the media, we are quoting an agricultural engineer as as a #COVID19 expert. #PROTOcall
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us @nayantaran @ameyann Is there an increase in #misinformation during #pandemics as compared to normal times? asks @nayantaran #PROTOcall #coveringCOVID
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us @nayantaran @ameyann .@Sanna_B_P- In pandemic, we are consuming information in a different way. We are cognitively overloaded and can’t think rationally due to stress and anxiety. #PROTOcall
@Sanna_B_P @BBC @thewire_in @NYMag @AltNewsScience @Neurophysik @WHO @HKUniversity @poliohunt @ICFJ @IJNet @IAVI @zoom_us @nayantaran @ameyann .@Sanna_B_P- Psychologists have a formula for rumours. If a situation is uncertain or ambiguous, then rumours go faster. #PROTOcall
