Impact of The Social Media on COVID-19: Is YouTube In or Out? (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gokhan Eyuboglu ◽  
Ramazan Guven ◽  
Seda Yilmaz Semerci ◽  
Deniz Ozel ◽  
Muhammed Ikbal Sasmaz
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Imperfect Information ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Significant Relation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic, which caused to closure of borders and curfews to be imposed all over the world, is one of the most important urgent public health problems in the last century. Youtube with billions of viewers per day has become one of the information points for COVID-19 in this period while face to face meeting is diminished. Many COVID-19 patients have talked about their experiences on Youtube. OBJECTIVE With this study, it has been aimed to evaluate the proficiency of videos about COVID-19 symptoms on Youtube. METHODS The terms “COVID 19 symptoms”, “coronavirus 19 symptoms”, “symptoms of coronavirus” and “symptoms of COVID 19” have been searched on Youtube on 01 April 2020, the videos that were uploaded in 2020 and viewed more than 10,000 times until then were scanned and 719 videos were examined. Records of duplicated videos have been excluded. Videos with an inappropriate language, videos with a duration of shorter than 1 minute, videos that have been deleted by the uploader and videos that contain information incompatible with the title excluded. The videos were examined by two physicians in terms of discussing the symptoms and wrong information and graded. In case there was a difference between two evaluators, peer-review has been made by a third reviewer. RESULTS A total of 719 videos were scanned and 202 videos were included in the study. 28.7% of the videos had been viewed more than 500,001 times. Among the uploaders Healthcare Personnel (3.5%) and Institutions (9.4%) are the two lowest groups. No grading difference has been found between Institutions, Healthcare Personnel, Individuals Other Than Healthcare Personnel and Unknown Uploaders (P: .13). Among the uploader groups with 12 and higher points, Individuals Other Than Healthcare Personnel stood out among other uploaders significantly with a ratio of 46.7% (P: .02). Only 4.1% of the videos included wrong/imperfect information and a statistically significant relation between uploader groups was not determined (.35). CONCLUSIONS It is important that COVID-19 symptoms are reflected correctly on Youtube, which is one of the most frequently used sites all over the world, in terms of people recognizing the disease in the time of pandemic and isolating themselves and making the decision to apply for a healthcare provider. We are of the opinion that creation of more content by healthcare personnel, in a period with such heavy social media usage, will be useful in terms of informing the public.

scholarly journals A Panel Evaluation of the Changes in the General Public’s Social-Media-Following of United States’ Public Health Departments during COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 215013272199545
Author(s):  
Areej Khokhar ◽  
Aaron Spaulding ◽  
Zuhair Niazi ◽  
Sikander Ailawadhi ◽  
Rami Manochakian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Health Department ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Departments ◽  
The Social ◽  
The U.S

Importance: Social media is widely used by various segments of society. Its role as a tool of communication by the Public Health Departments in the U.S. remains unknown. Objective: To determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social media following of the Public Health Departments of the 50 States of the U.S. Design, Setting, and Participants: Data were collected by visiting the Public Health Department web page for each social media platform. State-level demographics were collected from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention was utilized to collect information regarding the Governance of each State’s Public Health Department. Health rankings were collected from “America’s Health Rankings” 2019 Annual report from the United Health Foundation. The U.S. News and World Report Education Rankings were utilized to provide information regarding the public education of each State. Exposure: Data were pulled on 3 separate dates: first on March 5th (baseline and pre-national emergency declaration (NED) for COVID-19), March 18th (week following NED), and March 25th (2 weeks after NED). In addition, a variable identifying the total change across platforms was also created. All data were collected at the State level. Main Outcome: Overall, the social media following of the state Public Health Departments was very low. There was a significant increase in the public interest in following the Public Health Departments during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results: With the declaration of National Emergency, there was a 150% increase in overall public following of the State Public Health Departments in the U.S. The increase was most noted in the Midwest and South regions of the U.S. The overall following in the pandemic “hotspots,” such as New York, California, and Florida, was significantly lower. Interesting correlations were noted between various demographic variables, health, and education ranking of the States and the social media following of their Health Departments. Conclusion and Relevance: Social media following of Public Health Departments across all States of the U.S. was very low. Though, the social media following significantly increased during the early course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it still remains low. Significant opportunity exists for Public Health Departments to improve social media use to engage the public better.

Public Health and a President’s Racism

Pained ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 29-30
Author(s):  
Michael D. Stein ◽  
Sandro Galea
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This chapter addresses how racism presents a clear threat to the health of populations. In 2018, President Donald Trump made racist comments toward countries with predominantly nonwhite populations. Why did the president’s racism matter for the health of the public? To answer this question, one needs to understand where health comes from. Health is the product of the social, economic, and cultural context in which people live. This context is also shaped by social norms that do much to determine people’s behaviors and their consequences. Changing these norms can produce both positive and negative health effects. On the positive side, changing norms can promote health, by making unacceptable unhealthy conditions and behaviors that were once common, even celebrated. On the negative side, changing norms for the worse can empower elements of hate in society. When a president promotes hate, it shifts norms, suggesting that hate does in fact have a place in the country and the world. This opens the door to more hate crimes, more exclusion of minority groups from salutary resources, and little to no effort to address racial health gaps.

scholarly journals Foodstagramming Hyperreality in Youth Consumption Behavior in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabilah Mahdiyyah Destriana ◽  
Nurhadi Nurhadi ◽  
Sigit Pranawa
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Consumption Behavior ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Technology Advancement ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Results

 This research studies the foodstagramming phenomena that happened on most young people in Surakarta which has been the new lifestyle that causes hyperreality in social media. The purpose of this study was to know the motives behind the activities of foodstagramming done by Instagram users and their effects on the people’s consumptive interest that impacted the hyperreality phenomenon on social media. The actions of foodstagramming are now widely popular since more cafés and restaurants are built-in Surakarta. The technology advancement has changed the eating culture, which in the past, it see as a necessity fulfilment. Still, now it becomes the ‘mark’ of what to expose to the public through simulation in social media that eventually forms fake realities, as mentioned by Jean Baudrillard as hyperreality. This study used the qualitative approach and phenomenology method to dig out the motives behind the Surakarta people’s activities foodstagramming. The data collection techniques used were interviews, observation, and documentation from Instagram, news websites, and survey results about consumptive patterns and social media usage. The informant’s criteria were Instagram users, such as cafés and restaurant consumers, entrepreneurs, and the café or restaurant workers. The data analysis technique was an interactive model data analysis by Miles and Huberman. The result showed that ‘Makan Cantik’ and Foodstagramming were simulations that intentionally create to form a particular image to represent the social status and gain prestige. ‘Makan Cantik’ and Foodstagramming were called hyperreality in social media where fake realities were exposed to be more real than the truth itself.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the social media usage among different age groups in Hyderabad, India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanishka Nallamothu ◽  
Satya Susrutha Bhimaraju
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rapid Spread

The emergence and rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 across the globe has caused a state of panic and chaos. Self-quarantine and lockdowns have been implemented in many countries leaving the public homebound. On one hand social media being a prime source of information, it could have a substantial contribution in causing unnecessary apprehension and fear in the public due to the speculations and misinformation, while on the other hand the unexpected event of lockdown resulted in a spurt of social media usage. The adverse effect of social media on psychological well-being, academic performance, socializing skills, interpersonal relationship and parenting were recorded by a number of studies in the past. It is imperative to be mindful of the content being watched and the time spent on social media. The study aims to understand the variation in social media usage in different age groups in the people of Hyderabad, India due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey was conducted through a questionnaire that was created using Google forms. The study shows that the social media usage has significantly increased in the people of Hyderabad, India during the COVID-19 lockdown. The data shows a correlation between the age groups and variation in social media usage. The increased social media usage is more in the younger age groups below 25 years. The study proves no impact of social media usage on productivity during the quarantine

scholarly journals Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling of Indonesian Public Conversation about COVID-19 Epidemics on Twitter

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Muhammad Habibi ◽  
Adri Priadana ◽  
Muhammad Rifqi Ma’arif
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in more than six million confirmed cases and more than 371,000 deaths globally on June 1, 2020. The incident sparked a flood of scientific research to help society deal with the virus, both inside and outside the medical domain. Research related to public health analysis and public conversations about the spread of COVID-19 on social media is one of the highlights of researchers in the world. People can analyze information from social media as supporting data about public health. Analyzing public conversations will help the relevant authorities understand public opinion and information gaps between them and the public, helping them develop appropriate emergency response strategies to address existing problems in the community during the pandemic and provide information on the population's emotions in different contexts. However, research related to the analysis of public health and public conversations was so far conducted only through supervised analysis of textual data. In this study, we aim to analyze specifically the sentiment and topic modeling of Indonesian public conversations about the COVID-19 on Twitter using the NLP technique. We applied some methods to analyze the sentiment to obtain the best classification method. In this study, the topic modeling was carried out unsupervised using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). The results of this study reveal that the most frequently discussed topic related to the COVID-19 pandemic is economic issues.

scholarly journals The WHO Health Alert: Communicating a Global Pandemic with WhatsApp

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Josephine Walwema
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
World Health ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Access Information ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Local Agencies

Upon declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) orchestrated a global risk-communication outreach. The WHO’s objective was to persuade the public to upend and alter their lives so as to contain the disease and minimize its spread and infection. The WHO found a simple and efficient medium to communicate glocally through the social media application WhatsApp, through which individuals could access information without gatekeeping by governments and local agencies.

scholarly journals Social Media as an Opportunity for Public Health Interventions: The #Metoo Movement as an Exemplar

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Gomez Bravo ◽  
María Gómez Bravo ◽  
Charilaos Lygidakis ◽  
Claus Vögele
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
The Social

Background: Social media have been used exponentially and globally, providing a means for billions of users to connect, interact, share opinions and criticise, becoming one of the main channels of communication for users around the world. One of the most popular free social media networks is Twitter, with more than 100 million active users per day worldwide. Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyse a sample of the public conversations generated, using the hashtag #MeToo, around the topic of sexual abuse on Twitter.  Methods:  Using social media marketing software, the use of the #MeToo hashtag was analysed over a period of 60 days (14 September 2017 to 13 November of 2017). Results: The #MeToo conversation was mainly in English (79.3%), located in the United States (48.2% of cases), but with global repercussions. The volume of mentions of the #MeToo hashtag was far greater (97.7%), compared with other hashtags related to violence over this period of time, using mostly Twitter (96.2%). Conclusions: These results suggest that it is possible to describe different groups using the social media, and analyse their conversations to identify opportunities for successful public health interventions.  If the topic is relevant for the general public, it will generate interest and conversations at the global level, supported by a universal and borderless channel such as Twitter.

Quantifying Network Dynamics and Information Flow Across Chinese Social Media During the African Ebola Outbreak

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shihui Feng ◽  
Liaquat Hossain ◽  
John W. Crawford ◽  
Terry Bossomaier
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Disaster Medicine ◽  
Public Health Preparedness ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Platform

ABSTRACTObjectiveSocial media provides us with a new platform on which to explore how the public responds to disasters and, of particular importance, how they respond to the emergence of infectious diseases such as Ebola. Provided it is appropriately informed, social media offers a potentially powerful means of supporting both early detection and effective containment of communicable diseases, which is essential for improving disaster medicine and public health preparedness.MethodsThe 2014 West African Ebola outbreak is a particularly relevant contemporary case study on account of the large number of annual arrivals from Africa, including Chinese employees engaged in projects in Africa. Weibo (Weibo Corp, Beijing, China) is China’s most popular social media platform, with more than 2 billion users and over 300 million daily posts, and offers great opportunity to monitor early detection and promotion of public health awareness.ResultsWe present a proof-of-concept study of a subset of Weibo posts during the outbreak demonstrating potential and identifying priorities for improving the efficacy and accuracy of information dissemination. We quantify the evolution of the social network topology within Weibo relating to the efficacy of information sharing.ConclusionsWe show how relatively few nodes in the network can have a dominant influence over both the quality and quantity of the information shared. These findings make an important contribution to disaster medicine and public health preparedness from theoretical and methodological perspectives for dealing with epidemics. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:26–37)

Social Media Usage and Work Values: The Example of Facebook in Taiwan

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Ying-Chao Lin ◽  
Angelina Nhat Hanh Le ◽  
Shadab Khalil ◽  
Julian Ming-Sung Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Social Medium ◽  
Office Workers ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Bivariate Correlation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Usage Behavior

Social media, especially social networking, are rapidly becoming very popular online activities among people all over the world. The use of online media is causing several workplace-related problems. Therefore, in this study we investigated the associations between social media usage behavior, personal background, and work values. Using office workers for the research sample and Facebook as the social medium for investigation, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted to dimensionalize the constructs of social media usage behavior and work values. The results of bivariate correlation suggest that personal background and social media usage behavior are correlated and social media usage behavior and work values are partially correlated.

COVID-19 Misinformation and Toxicological Consequences (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Amrollahi-Sharifabadi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
The World ◽  
Prevention And Treatment ◽  
Public Health Authorities ◽  
New Strategies

UNSTRUCTURED The new Corona virus pandemic alarmed the world. Misinformation regarding prevention and treatment for safeguarding against this pandemic seemed to be more contagious and hazardous than the Corona virus. Public health authorities in the world tried to battle this virtual virus by offering true information and correcting misinformation. However, the public misinformation through social media caused toxicological consequences in some parts of the world which provoked awareness, response, and concern of the public health authorities including the FDA and toxicology community. On the other hand, finding new strategies for the prevention and treatment of the corona virus again stress the roles of toxicology, infodemiology, and social media. Hundreds of chemicals are being tested to be prophylactic medications or healing drugs for the corona virus. Therefore, spread accurate information and edit misinformation will be crucial. Conclusively, toxicology education to the public is a necessity and conducting more toxicological infodemiology studies recommended.

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