English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
Esperanto
French
German
Greek
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
UrduAs a social media user, you can be eager to share content. You can also try to judge whether it is true or not. But for many people it is difficult to prioritize both these things at once.
Tag: MASS MEDIA
Geography, language dictate social media and popular website usage, study finds
Since its inception, the internet has been viewed by technology experts and scholars as a way to access information at a global scale without having to overcome hurdles posed by language and geography.
COVID-19 conspiracy theories that spread fastest focused on evil, secrecy
In the early pandemic, conspiracy theories that were shared the most on Twitter highlighted malicious purposes and secretive actions of supposed bad actors behind the crisis, according to an analysis of nearly 400,000 posts.
Vaccination gets a boost when people know their neighbors are doing it
Just as a highly transmissible variant prompts officials to extend COVID-19 emergency status, one of the largest surveys ever conducted shows people are more willing to get vaccinated when health workers reveal how many others are doing so.
Who’s really driving conversations on social media?
Log on to your favorite social media site and you’re likely to see a slew of posts and opinions on controversial topics like social justice, immigration, and corrupt elections.
Comm Arts Chula Offers 2 New Courses on Creating Fun Games to Dazzle Digital Natives
To keep abreast with the world of modern communication, the Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University (Comm Arts Chula) is offering 2 brand new courses on creative media in the form of games through a cross-disciplinary approach alongside Chula Engineering and College of Public Health Sciences to create a media that’s accessible and appealing to the digital-age audience.
The Interplay Between Epidemics, Prevention Information, and Mass Media
When an epidemic strikes, more than just infections spread. As cases mount, information about the disease, how to spot it, and how to prevent it propagates rapidly among people in affected areas as well.
Americans more likely to share COVID-19 misinformation online
People living in the United States are more than three times more likely to share misinformation and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 than people in four other English-speaking countries, including Canada, a Simon Fraser University study has found.
Autistic adults have become increasingly visible in media, books, television, and more in the past decade, but challenges with representation persist
Researchers documented a shift toward more representation for adults in popular portrayals of autism, which have historically focused on children.
Disagreement may be a way to make online content spread faster, further
The finding comes from an examination of posts labeled controversial on social news aggregation site Reddit.
Communicating about climate change: What’s politics got to do with it?
In the United States, climate change is controversial, which makes communicating about the subject a tricky proposition. A recent study by Portland State researchers Brianne Suldovsky, assistant professor of communication, and Daniel Taylor-Rodriguez, assistant professor of statistics, explored how liberals…
Public trust in CDC, FDA, and Fauci holds steady, survey shows
But heavy users of conservative media have less confidence and are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories
People becoming desensitized to COVID-19 illnesses, death, research suggests
UC Davis study points out need to consider future public health responses
COVID-19 vaccination: Examining negative dominance on social media
It’s not all negative
US congressional members struck a different tone along party lines in 8 months of COVID-19 social
Meaningful messaging: Sentiment in elite social media communication with the public on the COVID-19 pandemic
The user journey behind socially electric live event experience
News from the Journal of Marketing
Why we need to talk openly about vaccine side effects
We need to talk openly about vaccine side effects if we are to defeat the coronavirus pandemic
Women and lower-education users more likely to tweet personal information
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — When it comes to what users share on Twitter, women and users who never attended college voluntarily disclose more personal information than users from other socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds — potentially making these populations more susceptible…
New book contends that local newspapers bear brunt of news media’s increasing elitism
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new book by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign journalism professor Nikki Usher examines the market failure of local newspapers in the context of larger U.S. problems such as rising social inequality, geographic polarization and political discord. In…
Context in science reporting affects beliefs about, and support for, science
How the media frame stories about science affects the public’s perception about scientific accuracy and reliability, and one particular type of narrative can help ameliorate the harm to science’s reputation sometimes caused by different journalistic approaches to scientific storytelling, according to a new study led by a University at Buffalo researcher.
New warning on teen sleep
Sleep deprivation leads to mood, mental health falls
Communication: A key tool for citizen participation in science
Scientists gain insight into how citizen participation in science is practised in Spain and propose a series of recommendations for its improvement.
Big data are no substitute for personal input in surveys
When the analysis of digital data reaches its limits, methods that focus on observations made by individuals can be useful. In contexts such as the coronavirus pandemic, a method called human social sensing can elicit information that is difficult to…
Smart technology is not making us dumber
UC social/behavioral expert explains that tech doesn’t dumb us down
Traits of a troll: Research reveals motives of internet trolling
As social media and other online networking sites have grown in usage, so too has trolling – an internet practice in which users intentionally seek to draw others into pointless and, at times, uncivil conversations. New research from Brigham Young…
Partisanship guided Americans’ personal safety decisions early in the pandemic
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — What motivated Americans to wear masks and stay socially distanced (or not) at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic? More often than not, it was partisanship, rather than perceived or actual health risk, that drove…
New study finds fast-food companies spending more on ads, targeting Black and Hispanic youth
Industry spent $5 billion on advertising in 2019, and Black youth viewed 75% more ads than their White peers
Teens’ emotions, coping strategies associated with exposure to media-based vicarious racism
What The Study Did: Focus groups were conducted with teenagers to examine their responses to exposure to online and media-based vicarious racism and to explore coping strategies that may be used to combat negative emotions. Authors: Nia Heard-Garris, M.D., M.Sc.,…
Hollywood stereotypes of female journalists feed a ‘vicious cycle’ of sexism
A researcher asks, who believes that female reporters have sex with their sources?
Mary Foltz awarded Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship to Expand LGBTQ Archive
Lehigh University’s Mary Foltz will serve as a scholar-in-residence at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, where she will work with the center’s Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive and lead public humanities initiatives.
How firms can navigate competitors’ pitfalls without being ‘tarred by the same brush’
Researchers from University of Adelaide published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines how advertising can increase the informativeness of a firm’s stock price by reducing its stock price synchronicity.
Impact of digitization on democracies
Joint Symposium of the Science Academies of Germany, Israel and the USA
Communication technology, study of collective behavior must be ‘crisis discipline’
Our ability to confront global crises, from pandemics to climate change, depends on how we interact and share information. Social media and other forms of communication technology restructure these interactions in ways that have consequences. Unfortunately, we have little insight…
Research uncovers broadband gaps in US to help close digital divide
High-speed internet access has gone from an amenity to a necessity for working and learning from home, and the COVID-19 pandemic has more clearly revealed the disadvantages for American households that lack a broadband connection. To tackle this problem, Michigan…
Nintendo® wii may help improve balance in children with cerebral palsy
Therapy based on the Nintendo® Wii Balance Board can help improve balance in children with cerebral palsy, according to an analysis published in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology . For the analysis, researchers from the University of Jaén, in Andalusia,…
Radicalized and believing in conspiracies: Can the cycle be broken?
How conspiracies and radicalization have entered the American mainstream and what to do about it
Study: Malicious bots are the primary pathogen of COVID-19 misinformation on social media
La Jolla, Calif. (June 07, 2021) — “The coronavirus pandemic has sparked what the World Health Organization has called an ‘infodemic’ of misinformation,” said Dr. John W. Ayers , a scientist who specializes in public health surveillance. “But, bots –like…
Correcting misperceptions about, and increasing empathy for, migrants
Americans dramatically overestimate the number of migrants affiliated with gangs and children being trafficked
You’re more likely to fight misinformation if you think others are being duped
People in both the United States and China who think others are being duped by online misinformation about COVID-19 are also more likely to support corporate and political efforts to address that misinformation, according to a new study. The study…
How news coverage affects public trust in science
Negative stories without context can undermine confidence in science
Gender stereotypes still hold true for youth and types of political participation
Gender roles absorbed at an early age seem to have shaped today’s youth regarding their involvement in politics, in line with traditional stereotypes, concludes a new study , conducted amongst adolescents and young adults aged between 15 and 30 in…
Overconfidence in news judgement
New study shows that overconfidence in news judgment is associated with false news susceptibility
Horror films as a reimagined space for healing
A new article examines how the depiction of a “final girl’s” struggle after survival in a horror film – how she has been vilified and dismissed, but ultimately proven right – might offer trauma survivors the chance to see a bit of themselves on the big screen.
Can TV shows help teens navigate bullying, depression and other mental health issues?
Yes, says a UCLA report, but only when they approach topics in a credible, supportive way
Clear differences in how Nordic journalists experience their professional role
Swedish and Danish journalists describe their role as monitorial to a greater extent than journalists from other Nordic countries. Journalists from Norway and Iceland state they have the least experience of political influence and thus differ from Finnish journalists. This…
Study shows Pinterest users pin healthy recipes, are more likely to make unhealthy ones
George Mason study finds users liked and pinned posts that were healthy but more heavily engaged off-line with recipes that were high in fat, sugar, and total calories – indicating that users were more like to actually cook the less healthy recipes
Can twitter help improve dental education?
An analysis of published studies indicates that Twitter may be a useful learning tool in dental education. The analysis, which is published in the Journal of Dental Education , included 7 studies. Studies indicated that the real-time question and answer…
Polarization and mobilization on social media affect infection figures
Model calculations reveal a link between political dissemination of information and Corona infections in the USA
Living in megacities
A new focus in English linguistics
European coordination needed to fight science disinformation, academies say
In a new report, ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, examines the potential of technical and policy measures to tackle science disinformation