scholarly journals Why People Who Know Less Think They Know about COVID-19: Evidence from US and Singapore

2021 ◽  
pp. 107769902110494
Author(s):  
Sangwon Lee ◽  
Masahiro Yamamoto ◽  
Edson C. Tandoc
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Factual Knowledge ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Subjective Knowledge ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Main Effects

This study explores the effects of traditional media and social media on different types of knowledge about COVID-19. We also explore how surveillance motivation moderates the relationship between media use and different types of knowledge. Based on cross-national data from Singapore and the United States, we find that news seeking via social media is negatively related to factual knowledge and positively related to subjective knowledge and knowledge miscalibration. News seeking via traditional media is not significantly related to factual knowledge. Although the main effects are highly consistent across the two countries, we find some different interaction patterns across these countries.

scholarly journals A Generational War Is Launched with The Birth of Ok Boomer in The Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Joon Lim ◽  
Jennifer Lemanski
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

This study examined recent virality of “Ok Boomer” in the United States. The term of Ok Boomer gained overnight momentum in the public sphere as the symbol of a generational war. While previous research has primarily examined racial and gender tensions, this study introduced a new phenomenon of the generational conflict between “Ok Boomers” and “Baby Boomers,” in which social media originated the term of Ok Boomer and traditional media diffused it with framed meaning. Diffusion of Innovation theory was used to better understand the path of how “Ok Boomer” as a catchphrase, hashtag, noun cluster or trend resulted in attracting a massive amount of media and public attention. Relying on Node XL, Google Trends, and Nexus Nexis for data gathering and analyses, this study categorized four themes for a word, or an idea as an innovation to be publicly acknowledged: collaboration of social media and traditional media, public figures’ involvement for debate; confrontational social issues, and media-framed agenda. In sum, this study argues the term of Ok Boomer symbolizes the advent of a generational war in society in line with the long-standing race and gender wars in the media coverage.

scholarly journals Genotype × Environment Interaction for Resistance to Spider Mites in Fragaria

1999 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
José López Medina ◽  
Patrick P. Moore ◽  
Carl H. Shanks ◽  
Fernando Flores Gil ◽  
Craig K. Chandler
Keyword(s):  
Spider Mite ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spider Mites ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
First Order ◽  
Genotype Environment Interaction ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Ammi Analysis ◽  
Main Effects

Genotype × environment interaction for resistance to the twospotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae Koch) of eleven clones of Fragaria L. sp. (strawberries) grown in six environments throughout the United States was examined using two multivariate analysis techniques, principal coordinate analysis (PCA) and additive main effect and multiplicative interaction (AMMI). Both techniques provided useful and interesting ways of investigating genotype × environment interaction. PCA analysis indicated that clones X-11 and E-15 were stable across both low and high environments for the number of spider mites per leaflet. The initial AMMI analysis showed that the main effects of genotype, environment, and their first-order interaction were highly significant, with genotype × environment interaction due mainly to cultivar `Totem' and environment FL94. A second AMMI analysis, which excluded `Totem' and FL94, showed that the main effects of the remaining genotypes, environments, and genotype × environment interaction were also highly significant. AMMI biplot analysis revealed that FL93 and GH93 were unstable environments, but with opposite interaction patterns; and GCL-8 and WSU2198 were unstable genotypes with similar interactions that were opposite those of WSU 2202.

Propagation Phenomena in Social Media

2019 ◽  
pp. 43-66
Author(s):  
Meeyoung Cha ◽  
Fabrício Benevenuto ◽  
Saptarshi Ghosh ◽  
Krishna Gummadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Tie Strength ◽  
Information Propagation ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
User Influence ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types

Social media and blogging services have become extremely popular. Every day hundreds of millions of users share random thoughts, gossip, news, and thoughts on notable social issues. Users interact by following each other’s updates and passing along interesting pieces of information to their friends. Information therefore can diffuse widely and quickly through social links. Information propagation in networks such as Twitter and Facebook is unique, in that traditional media sources and word-of-mouth propagation coexist. The availability of digitally logged propagation events in social media helps one better understand how a wide range of factors that are essential in communication, such as user influence, tie strength, repeated exposures, mass media, and agenda setting, come into play in the way people generate and consume information in modern society. This chapter reviews the roles different types of users of social media play in information propagation as well as the resulting propagation patterns. It also discusses specific examples, including the spread of social conventions and identifying topic experts in social media, in an effort to bring about better understanding of the characteristics of propagation phenomena in large social networks.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of the Role of Interpersonal Communication, Traditional Media and Social Media in Pro-Environmental Behavior: A China-Based Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 1883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruixia Han ◽  
Jian Xu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Information Exposure ◽  
Environmental Risk Perception ◽  
Types Of Information

Previous studies have confirmed that information exposure affects pro-environmental behavior. With the rise of social media, new questions emerge in terms of whether different types of information exposure affect pro-environmental behavior differently. Based on a survey of 550 people that was carried out in China, this study aims to compare the different roles of interpersonal communication, traditional media, and social media in affecting the relationships between people’s environmental risk perception, willingness to contribute to the environment, environmental knowledge, environmental concerns, and pro-environmental behavior. Our research discovered that: (1) traditional media has almost no effect on pro-environmental behavior; (2) interpersonal communication can affect pro-environmental behavior through significantly affecting environmental risk perception; (3) social media affects pro-environmental behavior mainly by strengthening the effects of interpersonal communication. The research reveals that while different types of information exposure affect pro-environmental behavior differently, interpersonal communication plays a central role. Concerning the mutual influence between social media and interpersonal communication, we propose that we could promote pro-environmental behavior by activating social media communication.

Business Processes and Knowledge Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 471-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future

Knowledge has been a subject of interest and inquiry for thousands of years since at least the time of the ancient Greeks, and no doubt even before that. “What is knowledge” continues to be an important topic of discussion in philosophy. More recently, interest in managing knowledge has grown in step with the perception that increasingly we live in a knowledge-based economy. Drucker (1969) is usually credited as being the first to popularize the knowledge-based economy concept by linking the importance of knowledge with rapid technological change in Drucker (1969). Karl Wiig coined the term knowledge management (hereafter KM) for a NATO seminar in 1986, and its popularity took off following the publication of Nonaka and Takeuchi’s book “The Knowledge Creating Company” (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995). Knowledge creation is in fact just one of many activities involved in KM. Others include sharing, retaining, refining, and using knowledge. There are many such lists of activities (Holsapple & Joshi, 2000; Probst, Raub, & Romhardt, 1999; Skyrme, 1999; Wiig, De Hoog, & Van der Spek, 1997). Both academic and practical interest in KM has continued to increase throughout the last decade. In this article, first the different types of knowledge are outlined, then comes a discussion of various routes by which knowledge management can be implemented, advocating a process-based route. An explanation follows of how people, processes, and technology need to fit together for effective KM, and some examples of this route in use are given. Finally, there is a look towards the future.

Palestine Unbound

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-103
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Palestinian Authority ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Youth Group ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict ◽  
Cyber Crimes

This section, updated regularly on Palestine Square, strives to capture the tenor and content of popular conversations related to the Palestinians and the Arab-Israeli conflict held on new and dynamic platforms, unbound by traditional media. Items that either have gone viral or represent a significant cultural moment or trend during the quarter 16 August–15 November 2017 include: global protests marking one hundred years since the issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the Palestinian Authority arrest of human rights defender Issa Amro for allegedly violating its new cyber crimes law, an update on Rasmea Odeh's deportation from the United States, and a viral social media campaign initiated by a youth group in Gaza called “Breakthrough,” which used sarcastic tweets to laud supposed advancements there.

scholarly journals El epistemotexto literario

Çédille ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 29-56
Author(s):  
Jesús Camarero ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Knowledge Based System ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Epistemological Perspective ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Different Types

From the point of view of Epistemocriticism, a literary text is considered to be at a crossroads where different types of knowledge combine in a transverse dynamics (transknowledge). Such definition refers to the concept of «epistemotext», and extends to the field of literary fictionality (epistemofiction), a knowledge-based system from an epistemological perspective.

scholarly journals Types of knowledge in science-based practices

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. A06 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelius Boshoff
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Factual Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Utilisation ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Theoretical Paper ◽  
Dense Set

Science communication as an interdisciplinary field of study has always been concerned with issues of knowledge utilisation. This theoretical paper focusses on the “knowledge” part of knowledge utilisation and provides a conceptual frame to distinguish between different types of knowledge in science-based practice. A practitioner’s knowledge store is portrayed as a dense set of personal knowledge, consisting of procedural knowledge, factual knowledge, potential factual knowledge and opinions/beliefs; the totality of which is continuously refined through more experiences and additional information received from people, documents or events. Implications for future studies of knowledge utilisation in science-based practices are highlighted and a number of questions posed to science communication as a profession.

Comparing Twitter and Instagram as platforms for party leader communication

First Monday ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli Skogerbø ◽  
Anders Olof Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Party Leader ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Scholarly Attention

While social media have become key in contemporary political campaigns, different platforms feature differing affordances, allowing for varying functionalities. Even more importantly, different platforms are populated by different user groups. As Twitter has received large amounts of scholarly attention, comparisons of how and why different social media platforms are used for political communication are less abundant. This study looks at the differences between Twitter and Instagram as platforms for top politicians, describing and explaining how they allow for interaction with different types of audiences. The study gauges the interaction patterns emerging from activity undertaken by Norwegian party leaders on Twitter and Instagram during the 2017 Norwegian elections and shows how use of these two platforms differ not only in terms of the volume and structure of the activities — but also with regard to what types of other users the party leaders choose to interact with on the studied platforms and why we see differences between them.

How Public Relations Practitioners Perceive Social Media Platforms?

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Ana Isabel Gonzalez Michel ◽  
Thomas E. Ruggiero ◽  
Kenneth C. C. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Media Richness ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Media Richness Theory ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Prior studies on the use of social media by public relations professionals are often descriptive and did not apply communication theories to fully evaluate the richness of this emerging communication platform. These studies did not explain the technology adoption process of public relations professionals. On the basis of Media Richness Theory, the authors assessed the perceptions of 162 public relations professionals from a national sample in the United States to identify emerging media richness dimensions of social media. This study found that these dimensions are not the same as those in other mass and traditional media platforms. This chapter suggests that social media should not simply be compared to traditional media, because they have demonstrated unique medium characteristics. Both theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

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