COVID-19 Infodemic

Glimpse ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-130
Author(s):  
Sarah Lwahas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Services ◽  
The Media ◽  
Setting Theory ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Managerial Positions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Journalism like many other professions is facing a crucial phase with the emergence of Coronavirus pandemic. The impact of Coronavirus phenomenon is enormous on social and cultural relationships of many communities who depend on the media for information to connect with each other and participate in governance freely. Journalists globally are facing enormous crisis of managing the infodemic of the pandemic streaming particularly from social media; as well as controversies of the media perpetuating disinfodemic or disinformation and distrust in the society. Besides arrests and restrictions of movement, journalists are also under intense threats of losing their jobs, and exacerbated psychological and physical pressures owing to the devastating effects of COVID-19. Using the Social Responsibility theory, that emphasises improved standards of journalism, safeguarding the interests of journalism and journalists among others, and the Agenda setting theory, that controls access to news, information, and entertainment; this research interrogates how journalists from selected states in Northern Nigeria are responding to the challenges of reportage of COVID-19. This research sampled the views of journalists using structured questionnaire administered online and interviewed seven senior journalists holding managerial positions. Findings revealed that journalists are embracing fact checking of the avalanche of information even within familiar sources to verify reports on COVID-19. Similarly, they are deploying digital and multimedia strategies to provide a continuum of media services and sensitive reporting to engage this new infodemic of COVID-19, now globally considered the “new normal”. This research recommends that, since COVID-19 is a novel disease, professionals across countries need to talk with each other, and journalists particularly from Africa and indeed Nigeria; need to put some structure and some science in place, especially in the performance of their jobs, so that professionalism can be sustained without compromising the future of the journalism.

scholarly journals Digital Marketing Effects of Clubhouse on Crowdfunding in the Context of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
Peter Konhäusner ◽  
Robert Seidentopf
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Media Richness Theory ◽  
Expert Interview ◽  
The Social ◽  
Expansion Theory ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media Channel

In the marketing mix, promotion is mentioned as using the communication channels available to present and market the product or service at hand. In recent years, social media has risen as an influential marketing communication channel in digital space. Apart from end-to-end direct messengers and video communication in times of the COVID-19 pandemic, the social media channel Clubhouse offers an audio-only experience. The current research lacks analysis of the potential influence of the hyped social network. Due to the novelty of the channel and the absence of text messages as well as visual stimuli, questions regarding the impact that usage of this social media channel might have on crowdfunding, a means of rising popularity in alternative financing, have arisen. The study builds upon the media richness theory of Daft and Lengel as well as the channel expansion theory of Carlson and Zmud. Besides literature research, explorative expert interview analyses were applied to answer the research question at hand. The main findings include different approaches to foster the opportunities of Clubhouse for marketing crowdfunding campaigns in line with insights about the user group of Clubhouse as well as development options for the platform.

Pedagogical context of mercantile orientation of the youth active in social media

2019 ◽  
Vol 579 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Adam Andrzejewski
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

The publication concerns theoretical considerations on the mercantile orientation of active youth in social media. The theoretical aspects of pedagogy in the context of the impact of the media on people are presented. The phenomenon of cyberculture appearing in the social media space was interpreted. The mercantile orientation was analyzed and its role in shaping young people's attitudes in relation to social media was defined.

scholarly journals Information Disorders

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 10-28
Author(s):  
Divina Frau-Meigs
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Media ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
The One

This paper analyses the major modifications created by the “social turn” i.e. the emergence of social media. It presents the drastic change of ecosystem created by the three “continents” of the Internet. This sets up the context of deployment for “information disorders” such as radicalisation and disinformation. The analysis then considers the risks and opportunities for Media and Information Literacy: on the one hand, the rise of fact-checking and the increasing interference of social media platforms; on the other hand, the augmentation of the Media and Information Literacy epistemology and the Media and Information Literacy paradigm shift entailed by information disorders. It concludes on an agenda for Media and Information Literacy in 21st century.

scholarly journals The Social Media As Echo Chamber: The Digital Impact

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Yusuf ◽  
Nisreen Al-Banawi ◽  
Hajjah Abdel Rahman Al-Imam
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Education Economics ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Free Search ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Impact

The media serve as the channels used to deliver information or research data for any purpose. With media and technology combined, if today a person is sitting in one corner of the world, he or she can send knowledge and words to an unimaginable number of people without fear of being interrupted or argued with. This paper explores the impact of media technology in our lives. The advent of the social media is playing a role in all facets of our lives. Its overriding existence with free search engines has changed the trends in education, economics, politics, and our day-to-day routine. Here we highlight how the quest of technology in the form of social media has been an important aspect of getting this world expressed in terms of bytes. The social media include web-based technology that has changed communication into a more interactive dialogue. The social media have completely transformed the way we connect or reconnect with old friends and acquaintances, entertain ourselves, pursue our hobbies, shop, relax, and look for jobs. The social media are the primary communication medium today for a new generation of digitally aware consumers.

scholarly journals BlogNewsRank: Finding and Ranking Frequent News Topics Using Social Media Factors

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Harshitha H ◽  
Mohammed Rafi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Services ◽  
Daily Events ◽  
The Media ◽  
User Attention ◽  
Filter Noise

In early days, mass media sources such as news media used to inform us about daily events. Now a days, social media services such as Twitter huge amount of user-generated data, which has a great potential to contain informative news-related content. For these resources to be useful, we have to find a way to filter noise and capture the content that, based on its similarity to the news media, is considered valuable. Even after noise is removed, information overload may still exist in the remaining data. Hence it is convenient to prioritize it for consumption. To achieve prioritization, information must be ranked in order of estimated importance considering mainly three factors. First, the temporal prevalence of a particular topic in the news media is a factor of importance, and can be considered the media focus (MF) of a topic. Second, the temporal prevalence of the topic in social media indicates its user attention (UA). Last, the interaction between the social media users who mention this topic indicates the strength of the community discussing it, and can be regarded as the user interaction (UI) toward the topic. We propose an unsupervised framework—BlogNewsRank—which identifies news topics prevalent in both social media and the news media, and then ranks them by relevance(frequency) using their degrees of MF, UA, and UI.

Agenda-setting in a social media age

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Carazo-Barrantes
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Agenda ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Setting Theory

Abstract This paper analyzes the role of social media in electoral processes and contemporary political life. We analyze Costa Rica’s 2018 presidential election from an agenda-setting perspective, studying the media, the political and the public agendas, and their relationships. We explore whether social media, Facebook specifically, can convey an agenda-setting effect; if social media public agenda differs from the traditional MIP public agenda; and what agenda-setting methodologies can benefit from new approaches in the social media context. The study revealed that social media agendas are complex and dynamic and, in this case, did not present an agenda-setting effect. We not only found that the social media public agenda does not correlate with the conventional MIP public agenda, but that neither does the media online agenda and the media’s agenda on Facebook. Our exploration of more contemporary methods like big data, social network analysis (SNA), and social media mining point to them as necessary complements to the traditional methodological proposal of agenda-setting theory which have become insufficient to explain the current media environment.

scholarly journals Impact of Fake News on Readers’ Usage Behaviour for News Items on Facebook and Twitter

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 2564-2568
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Media Design ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Behaviour Changes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Purpose: The goal of this study is to identify the major changes in the usage behaviour of social media users due to the presence of fake news and also to find the impact various behavioural changes of fake news on overall usage behaviour of social media. Design/Methodology: The present study is descriptive in nature. A well structured questionnaire was used for the collection of primary data. Five point Likert scale has been used in the questionnaire. A total number of 263 duly filled questionnaire were collected at the end of the field survey which were found fit for the study. Mean and multiple regression were used for data analysis. Findings: Fake news on social media significantly reduces the engagement rate of the social media users. There happens an increase in removal of friendship, unfollowing of the page / person. However the results differ as per the objectives of social media usage specially with respect to staying updated with the latest news. Originality/ Value: There is hardly any research in the Indian context that explains about the impact of fake news on various aspects of usage behaviour of social media users. The study has investigated the impact of various social media behaviour changes with respect to fake news with empirical evidences

scholarly journals THE REAL POWER OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA, THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION WAYS, AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE TURKISH ASSISTANCE DURING THE KOSOVO CRISES

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 266
Author(s):  
Njomza Krasniqi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Affiliation ◽  
General Picture ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

As it is always with new inventions in human history the role they play in their early stages is mostly none acknowledged before they make a more widespread impact. The social media is one of them. Due to the new aspects that this relatively new kind of media its role is mostly negligee in favors of the more vastly popular other forms. In the kind of era that we live technology means that the place where we get the information is irrelevant in the grand scheme of the things, however that does not mean that the impact is lesser or higher. To make the example more clear even though a news that the currency is going to raise or lower in the USA- for example its mostly limited to the USA citizens it has a dire impact in the rest of the world, but even though the means for this news is the generic media, the ones to give the means to understand and make amends to prepare for the consequences to the rest of the world. Due to this kind of functionality is always difficult to separate where the generic forms of the media begin and where the social media begin. What is interesting is that this function of social media begins since the first forms of the internet and it’s just more pronounced nowadays. As an example of this functionality the more prominent one is the way Turkey interfered in the Kosovo Crises. More than the generic news and political affiliation at the time the most impact in the public opinion did the social media. This paper is a research in this regard. It’s not very detailed and it shows a general picture of the situation and only deal with the main aspects of the behavior of the social media, however is a beginning which shows the great impact all forms of communications, especially the social media.

scholarly journals The Real Power of the Social Media, the Interpretation of the Establishing Communication Ways, as Illustrated by the Turkish Assistance during the Kosovo Crises

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Njomza Krasniqi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Affiliation ◽  
General Picture ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

As it is always with new inventions in human history the role they play in their early stages is mostly none acknowledged before they make a more widespread impact. The social media is one of them. Due to the new aspects that this relatively new kind of media its role is mostly negligee in favors of the more vastly popular other forms. In the kind of era that we live technology means that the place where we get the information is irrelevant in the grand scheme of the things, however that does not mean that the impact is lesser or higher. To make the example more clear even though a news that the currency is going to raise or lower in the USA- for example its mostly limited to the USA citizens it has a dire impact in the rest of the world, but even though the means for this news is the generic media, the ones to give the means to understand and make amends to prepare for the consequences to the rest of the world. Due to this kind of functionality is always difficult to separate where the generic forms of the media begin and where the social media begin. What is interesting is that this function of social media begins since the first forms of the internet and it’s just more pronounced nowadays. As an example of this functionality the more prominent one is the way Turkey interfered in the Kosovo Crises. More than the generic news and political affiliation at the time the most impact in the public opinion did the social media. This paper is a research in this regard. It’s not very detailed and it shows a general picture of the situation and only deal with the main aspects of the behavior of the social media, however is a beginning which shows the great impact all forms of communications, especially the social media.

scholarly journals The Mediated Crowd: New Social Media and New Forms of Rioting

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 195-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Alice Baker
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Public Space ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Structures Of Feeling ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Commentary on the recent riots largely reflects ideological differences with political discourse reviving traditional debates of social inequality and moral decline. While the 2011 riots resemble former incidents of rioting in twentieth-century Britain, it is argued that the recent unrest was significantly enhanced by the development of new social media, requiring new understandings of mediated crowd membership in the twenty-first century. I introduce and outline a model of the ‘mediated crowd’ commencing with the impact of new social media, and develop this paradigm in conjunction with emotions research, to account for the emotional dimensions of collective action, and the social and political effects these technological developments have on contemporary forms of rioting. Here, it is argued that attempts to understand the causes of the recent riots must recognise that while social media contributed to the speed and scope of the unrest, emotions play a crucial role in motivating and sustaining collective action as the structures of feeling that intersect geographic and virtual public space. This innovative approach provides insight into the particular conditions in which the English riots emerged, while demonstrating how social media contributes more broadly to new forms of collectivity in the media age.

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