Social media-based disaster research: Development, trends, and obstacles

This article refers to the brief history of the development of online media in Bangladesh starting from the beginnings of the Internet to the contemporary stage. Since 2006 Bangladeshi news organizations have been reshaping their strategy towards being a digital-only news outlet. News organizations are now using different features of mobile devices and social media to tell stories and engage with their target audiences. Today both the digital-only news outlets and mainstream media use QR codes, messengers, social media platforms, which enable them to reach a wider area of audiences. By using yet inexpensive digital tools journalists can easily create and distribute content for digital-only platforms. We consider digital-only platforms as new media, social media, and convergence media platforms. Social media platforms have provided the opportunity for traditional journalists to share news quickly, get feedback from the audience, and have two-way communication with the reader. Previous studies have looked at the genres of online journalism from a western perspective. Little has been done on the topic from the context of Bangladesh. In this article, we analyze the basic features of online news media that exist in contemporary Bangladesh and provide an account of the development trends. We outline the new genres, techniques, and use as a sample two most famous online news platforms: The Daily Star and bdnews24. A series of semi-structured interviews were conducted with 5 different professionals from Journalism and mass media. This study is based on both primary and secondary sources of qualitative data to understand the new genres of online news media, challenges, and opportunities to work in the ever-changing media landscape.

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Social Media: New Trends in Emergency Information

Journal of Disaster Research ◽

10.20965/jdr.2021.p0048 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 48-55

Author(s):

Changchun Feng ◽

Kabilijiang Umaier ◽

Takaaki Kato ◽

Qiushan Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Questionnaire Survey ◽

Information Dissemination ◽

Accurate Information ◽

Chinese Government ◽

Public Attention ◽

Development Trends ◽

Health Events ◽

Survey Results

At the end of 2019, during the outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese government and media used social media extensively to release emergency information. Once this information was released, it immediately attracted significant public attention. This study used a questionnaire survey to determine social media users’ habits during the COVID-19 outbreak. The results indicated that in the case of community closure during sudden public health events, the majority of respondents use social media to obtain information to understand the development trends of an epidemic, the government’s emergency strategy, scientific epidemic prevention knowledge, and accurate information. Based on the survey results, this study considers the value of social media for emergency information, which is both a tool and a new trend in information dissemination in the context of emergencies.

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Review of the Application of Social Media Data in Disaster Research

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications - Modern Management based on Big Data I ◽

10.3233/faia200642 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jiting Tang ◽

Saini Yang ◽

Weiping Wang

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Hazard Identification ◽

Research Needs ◽

Disaster Research ◽

Social Media Data ◽

Emergency Rescue ◽

Data Source ◽

The Relationship ◽

Media Data ◽

Data Sensitivity

Social media data (SMD) is a new data source in disaster research, which can be used in hazard identification, disaster analysis, risk assessment and emergency rescue. This data-driven disaster research needs to find an appropriate method considering the aspect of data sensitivity. So far, the research in this area is focused on the types of hazard, but rarely considers the relationship between the technical methods and applicable tasks. By emphasizing data and method dependencies, we have attempted to summarize the characteristics of SMD in disaster research, viz., “sociality, rapidity, subjectivity, and un-authenticity”, and explore the processing methods in the applications of disaster management. Our work provides ideas and reference to the researchers working in this area from the perspectives of data and research goals.

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Forecasting of Development Trends of Social Media Marketing in Ukraine

Scientific Bulletin of UNFU ◽

10.15421/40280407 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 41-45

Author(s):

Z. P. Dvulit ◽

O. Yu. Onyshchenko

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Social Media ◽

Social Network ◽

The State ◽

Social Media Marketing ◽

Development Trends ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

High Level

The concept of social media marketing, its main tools and opportunities for using the company to communicate with clients and receive feedback are considered. The necessity of using social media marketing company has been determined, 48 % of consumers increase desire to buy a product of a brand that reacts sensitively to its customers in social media. The rating of the most popular social networks of the world is made. The state of social media marketing in Ukraine, tools of its application is investigated. The most used sites in Ukraine are considered and it is found that the first places in the rating are social networks. Three of the top five most popular sites are social networks. The rating of the most popular social networks in Ukraine is built. It is revealed that for Ukraine, social media marketing is relatively new, since it appeared only a few years ago, but today it has become quite powerful. Recently, there have been even special agencies that provide SMM services to companies. Despite the fact that SMM is only beginning to develop actively in Ukraine, it is worth noting how fast it develops and at what high level it is now. The number of users of social networks is increasing every minute both in the world and in Ukraine, further forecasts predict an even greater increase in interest in social networks in the future. It is revealed that in Ukraine the most popular social network is Facebook (in June 2017, Facebook reached 51.96 %). Based on the data on the use of social networks by online users, a forecast is made for the development of the five most popular social networks in Ukraine including Facebook, VKontake, YouTube, Instagram, Odnoklassniki. Based on the forecast it is defined that the number of users of such social networks as VKontakte and Odnoklassniki will decrease with time, and Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram will grow steadily.

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The use of Smartphone and Social Media of Students to Enhance Individual Learning Styles in Forming Entrepreneurship Competence

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.e5858.018520 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (5) ◽

pp. 2365-2369

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Learning Styles ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Individual Learning ◽

Research Development ◽

Building Relationships ◽

Development Method ◽

Learning Aids ◽

Entrepreneurial Competencies

The purpose of this learning is to determine individual learning styles by using smartphones in forming entrepreneurial competencies, in an effort to improve the quality of entrepreneurship learning in class with lecturers, doing assignments in class or outside the class as a group, using smartphones and utilizing social media to get business ideas and creating assignment reports. Smartphones and social media that are brought by students and lecturers at any time have not been optimized for entrepreneurship learning, even most lecturers forbid students from opening smartphones while studying in class. The participants of this study were students of Bina Nusantara University from the Faculty of Economics and Communication, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Humanities, School of Computer Science and School of Information System. This research uses the Research Development method, which is a series of processes or steps to develop entrepreneurship learning innovations in the classroom by optimizing smartphones and social media, as a medium for classroom learning aids. The results of this study found that 39.6% of students used smartphones to study, 22.0% were used to build relationships, 5.8% for entertainment or reading news, 25.4% for businesses and 7.2% for documentation. Research shows that student learning styles have an influence on the formation of entrepreneurial competencies in building relationships and business that is equal to 47.4%. The greatest amount of influence simultaneously individual learning styles on entrepreneurial competence is 39.6% for learning. Based on the results of this study, it is suggested as follows: (1) the entrepreneurship learning curriculum is always made to improve ability and have competent entrepreneurial trust (Personal Maturity), because 39.6% of students do business using smartphones; (2) facilities and infrastructure to support the teaching and learning process must be continuously evaluated to function and support smartphone media.

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Application and Research Development of Steel-Concrete Composite Bridge

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.756-759.37 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 756-759 ◽

pp. 37-40

Author(s):

Zhi Xue Li ◽

Yu Wen Dai ◽

Ruo Lin Hu

Keyword(s):

Steel Industry ◽

Concrete Structure ◽

Iron And Steel Industry ◽

Steel Bridge ◽

Research Development ◽

Bridge Construction ◽

Development Trends ◽

Iron And Steel ◽

Composite Bridge ◽

Major Trend

China's iron and steel industry was rapided development, however, the steel bridge construction is very slow. Timely development of steel - concrete composite bridge will be the major trend of the future bridge construction.This paper intruduces the theory, advantages, applications and development trends of steel-concrete structure, by comparion of steel-concrete structure with prestressen concrete structure. Finaly, illustrates the need for steel-concrete structure used in bridge construction.

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RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT TRENDS ACTIVITIES IN UNIVERSITIES

Конференции ◽

10.47100/.v1i1.75 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Rashid Kadirov

Keyword(s):

Educational System ◽

Research Development ◽

Development Trends ◽

Points Of View ◽

Pedagogical Research ◽

University Science

The article is devoted to the development of university science inaccordance with the new educational system. Some points of view on the modernityof pedagogical research, on the need to revise the traditional methodology ofscientific research are considered.

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