Recently, the social media has partnered with World Health Organization (WHO )to create awareness around COVID-19, the latest example of social media, celebrities and influencers being tapped to help fight the outbreak with correct information. now we working on Jordan and UAE -based study, about Social media contribution to awareness on the pandemic, (On the negative and positive side) Do you social media that provides trustworthy information, offers tips on staying safe and preventing the spread of the virus, and dispels myths around COVID-19," ? Do you contribute The social media people influencers to create their own videos that provide users critical and informed medical information and tips.
In my opinion, the impact of new online media, including social media, on raising awareness about the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (Covid-19 disease) epidemic is very high. Download-side as well as for other important global issues are the new internet media, including social media portals in recent years dominated the media market, including various media information channels. Particularly in knowledge-based economies, in which the Internet infrastructure, ICT information technology, Industry 4.0 is more developed, to a greater extent new internet media have started to dominate for at least several years as the main source of information for citizens.
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The impact of social media is amazingly great. All most everything on social media is about COVID 19.
Millions on social media are definitely getting news or updates regarding this pandemy.
Social media analysts and communication professionals can literally celebrate the immense flow of diverse narratives and discourses from all corners of the world on one and the same topic with one and the same axiological value. Social media created huge data of discourses and narratives depicting what unites and what separates the humankind.
Dear Dariusz Prokopowicz Thank you for your opinion, this is great informations
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Dear Alain Mwamba Mukendi Do you think that affected the level of awareness of the audience?
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Dear Gayane Hovhannisyan This is really great info
But in your opinion, was the awareness of the pandemic affected, negatively or positively?
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I think social media is playing a very crucial role for providing awareness against COVID-19 pandemic.
Alain Mwamba Mukendi Yes, but these western digital corporations and social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat and Reddit) and their Chinese equivalents (WeChat, Weibo, Tencent and Toutiao) are at the heart of this crisis. These platforms act as facilitators and multipliers of COVID-19-related misinformation.
Social media has a great impact in sensitizing the general public as to creating the awareness of the dangers and reality of the Covid-19 contagion. It might interest you to know that the pandemic was taken to be a myth among locals in some societies before. Gladly enough, the message of its reality and common measures to break the immediate transmission especially at community level has spread across the globe. All thanks to social media!
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You are absolutely right and I agree with. That is a good point there.
I still believe somehow that awareness is much higher with social media platform. Somebody needs to run a survey a give us figures.
It is a good point and I agree with it .
I believe that awareness is higher with social media. So we need more research in this case.
To answer your second question to me, if it was positive or negative I can state that like any other factor it has both sides. However, I am inclined to think that the benefits brought by social media to COVID awareness overweight.
I believe social media has been been a veritable tool in creating awareness about the coronavirus pandemic. However, it has also been used in spreading fake/misinformed news.
Dear Mahmood Ismael Yes, social media contributes in the current era by directing and sensitizing minds through a set of ideas, which is what we want to focus on in the present study and in the future.
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Dear Alain Mwamba Mukendi I think it is important for there to be more opinions on this topic. What do you think about that?
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Social media messages reach many people.However the problem is that there are many communicators who are passi ng Covid 19 messages.Some of them are mixing up facts with fake information so the receivers are confused about the information to believe.Due to that some.people do not trust credible messages communucated through so ial media.My suggestion is that the same messages should be repeated through other more trustworthy channels such as radio and TV.
I believe Social media is an efficient platform to create awareness on COVID-19, due to its power to reach over a million people. Thereby, contributing to reducing the risk of people contracting the virus. But its also a powerful tool that sometimes create more panic among based on some misleading information that are being shared online. So in short, social media has both positive and negative impact on the public relative to COVID-19
Dear Juliet Macharia thank you for Contribution Yes, we need more reliable media sources
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Dera Whinell Togar thank you for Contribution Certainly social media has both positive and negative impact on the public relative to COVID-19 Also in educating individuals.
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The linked paper is about social media marketing (companies and campaigns), but not exactly on social media users.
It seems to be that the battle at hand is info wars — people spreading populist fake news versus people relying on actual data trying to counterargue those misinforming comments.
Dear Sérgio Tavares but there are also many media institutions and organizations that broadcast awareness and warning messages to the world's population about the threat of a pandemic I think this is another way than marketing the pandemic through social media>
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I understand. You referring to the sitewide notifications that social media platforms are pushing to users. You could consider phrasing it a bit more specifically. When you say "the impact of social media" you are referring to many possible things. One of them, the notifications. Another, the effort in cleaning up fake news, for example, like Twitter does. And finally, you would be also referring to the user-generated content, which mixes information, fake news and a daily infowar.
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thank you for Contribution, and I will see your question.regards
Social media platforms are playing a vital role in providing information about the spread of COVID-19. For Example WhatsApp
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