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dc.contributor.authorNoakes, Travis M.
dc.contributor.authorBell, David
dc.contributor.authorNoakes, Timothy D.
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-02T12:26:53Z
dc.date.available2023-05-02T12:26:53Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citation2022. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 17(1):1 - . [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1817-4434
dc.identifier.issn2415-2005 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/41134
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.4102/td.v18i1.1263
dc.description.abstractThe World Health Organization (WHO) has established a public research agenda to address infodemics. In these, ‘an overflow of information of varying quality surges across digital and physical environments’. The WHO’s expert panel has raised concerns that this can result in negative health behaviours and erosion of trust in health authorities and public health responses. In sponsoring this agenda, the WHO positioned itself as a custodian that can flag illegitimate narratives (misinformation), the spread of which can potentially result in societal harm. Such ‘post-truth’ moments are rife with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency. It provides an opportunity for researchers to analyse divisions in knowledge labour, which can help explain when ‘post-truth’ moments arrive. The first COVID-19 example for this division foregrounds the development of knowledge in an academic context. Added to this is the infodemic or disinfodemic research agenda and personal health responsibility, whose academic contributors are similar. In contrast, the division of labour for messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine research foregrounds the role of vaccine manufacturing pharmaceutical companies in driving and promoting related knowledge production. Transdiciplinary Contribution: This analysis focuses on intergroup contradictions between the interests of agencies and their contrasting goals and across different types of knowledge division. Many intergroup contradictions exist, and a few intergroup examples are also described. An overarching contradiction was identified where rushed guidance based on weak evidence from international health organisations may well perpetuate negative health and other societal outcomes rather than ameliorate them.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAOSISen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectDivisions in knowledge labouren_US
dc.subjectIntergroup contradictionsen_US
dc.subjectInternational health organisationen_US
dc.subjectmRNA vaccinesen_US
dc.subjectPandemicen_US
dc.titleWho is watching the World Health Organisation? ‘Post-truth’ moments beyond infodemic researchen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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