Social media in Uganda: An RCT investigating the effect of social media access on engagement with government, COVID-19 public health attitudes and behaviors, and citizen welfare

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Attitudes ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
And Behaviors

scholarly journals COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: A Study of the Understanding, Attitudes and Behaviors of Social Media Users

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 768-788
Author(s):  
Lowai G. Abed
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Health Related ◽  
And Behaviors

The dissemination of information via social media is important, particularly during a public health emergency. However, while it is undoubtedly useful in the targeting of genuine health communications, social media may also be used to spread health-related misinformation at times of disease outbreak or pandemic. The study presented here researches the spread of COVID-19 misinformation in Saudi Arabia, by exploring the relevant understanding, attitudes, and behaviors of Saudi Arabian citizens. The current study comprises a survey of 318 adults in Saudi Arabia, of all age groups and educational backgrounds, and from all Saudi Arabian provinces. This study highlights the significance of COVID-19 misinformation and concludes that, despite risks to public health and wellbeing, Saudi Arabian citizens do not consider COVID-19 misinformation to be a significant problem. Participants in this study were relatively aware of such misinformation and its dangers, but it did not greatly concern them, and generally they declined to tackle it proactively. 

COVIDiots and Cogency

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-85
Author(s):  
Roy Schwartzman ◽  
Jenni M. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Heuristics And Biases ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Public Health Campaigns ◽  
Health Experts

The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States spawns a perplexing polemic. Intransigent coronavirus skeptics who defy public health recommendations often get cast as ideological zealots or as perniciously ignorant. Both characterizations overlook a more fundamental epistemic opposition. The authors recast the conflict between COVID-19 skeptics and public health advocates as the rhetorical incompatibility between the deliberative, scientifically grounded public health experts and the intuitive, emotion-driven mental heuristics of the non-compliant. This study examines the discourse of COVID-19 misinformation purveyors on broadcast media and online. Their main contentions rely on heuristics and biases that collectively not only undermine trust in particular medical experts, but also undercut trust in the institutions and reasoning processes of science itself. The findings suggest ways that public health campaigns can become more effective by leveraging some of the intuitive drivers of attitudes and behaviors that scientists and argumentation theorists routinely dismiss as fallacious.

The ties that bind the diaspora to Turkey and Europe during the Gezi protests

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 937-955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roya Imani Giglou ◽  
Christine Ogan ◽  
Leen d’Haenens
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Media ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Early Summer ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Behaviors

The Gezi Park demonstrations across Turkey in the early summer of 2013 offered another opportunity to examine the role played by social media in a social movement. This survey of 967 ethnic (Turkish or Kurdish) minorities living in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany focuses on attitudes and behaviors alongside uses of offline and online networks to make connections with others during and after Gezi. We investigate whether the respondents living in the diaspora experienced communication-generated social capital. We also examine whether the social capital already built through lives spent in Europe, where connections to majority populations had been forged, was at least temporarily reversed through a process of re-bonding, as ethnic minorities turned their attention and loyalty to the social movement in Turkey.

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