Meeting People Where They Are: Hyper‐local Engagements Around COVID‐19 Misinformation in New Jersey
Britt Paris,
Khadijah Costley White
Abstract:This paper details the findings from a study investigating the efficacy of community‐based and ‐organized information sessions for dispelling public health misinformation around COVID‐19. The authors used community‐engaged participatory action research methods to co‐organize town halls with community members, groups, and officials to disseminate COVID information for two New Jersey towns and townships with differing demographic compositions in late 2020 through 2021. These sessions aimed to share reliable, tru… Show more
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