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Digital contact tracing and the coronavirus pandemic: 5 studies to know

Source: JournalistsResource.org

Until there’s a vaccine for the new coronavirus, infectious disease professionals point to digital contact tracing as a key way for authorities to safely lift lockdowns and begin cauterizing the economic, mental health and other personal trauma the pandemic is inflicting on millions of people worldwide.

Digital media and society: Covering social media, technology and a networked world - Journalist's Resource

Source: JournalistsResource.org

This course is organized around the broad question of what journalists should know about the way digital media are reshaping society. To answer this question, it provides a series of foundational readings on the effects of new media on a number of domains of social life, including culture, the economy, privacy, law, politics, social movements and journalism.