scholarly journals Publication and dissemination of Annual Reports to shareholders in Nigeria and the United Kingdom: The Economics of Social Media and Electronic Communication

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olagoke Kuye
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
The United Kingdom

Social Media Homicide Confessions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Yardley
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Digital Communications ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

As our interactions with others become ever more mediated by various forms of electronic communication, the relationship between crime and technology is becoming an increasingly important topic for both theoretical and practical studies of criminology. This book analyses digital communications as they play a part in contemporary homicide, drawing on a range of cases from the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world — cases where killers confessed on social media, for example, or where their actions were traced using their digital communications. Offering a groundbreaking conceptual framework for people studying this issue, the book will be of great value to criminologists, students, and police officers.

Evolution of public sentiments during the COVID-19 pandemic: Case comparisons of India, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
May Oo Lwin ◽  
Anita Sheldenkar ◽  
Jiahui Lu ◽  
Peter Johannes Schulz ◽  
Wonsun Shin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Communication Space

BACKGROUND Public sentiments are an important indicator of crisis response, with the need to balance exigency without adding to panic or projecting overconfidence. Given the rapid spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, governments have enacted various nationwide measures against the disease with social media platforms providing the previously unparalleled communication space for the global populations. OBJECTIVE This study aims to examine and provide a macro-level narrative of the evolution of public sentiments on social media at national levels, by comparing Twitter data from India, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States during the current pandemic. METHODS Over 67,363,091 million Twitter posts on COVID-19 from 28 January 2020 to 28 April 2021 were analyzed from the five countries with "wuhan", "corona", "nCov", and "covid" as search keywords. Change in sentiments ("very negative", " negative", "neutral or mixed", "positive”, “very positive”) were compared between countries in connection with disease milestones and public health directives. RESULTS Country-specific assessments show that negative sentiments were predominant across all five countries during the initial period of the global pandemic. However, positive sentiments encompassing hope, resilience, and support arose at differing intensities across the five countries, particularly in Asian countries. In the next stage of the pandemic, India, Singapore, and South Korea faced escalating waves of COVID-19 cases, resulting in negative sentiments, but positive sentiments appeared simultaneously. In contrast, while UK and US negative sentiments increased sharply and dramatically after the declaration of a national public emergency, strong parallel positive sentiments were slow to surface. CONCLUSIONS Our findings on sentiments across countries facing similar outbreak concerns suggest potential associations between government response actions both in terms of policy and communications, and public sentiment trends. Overall, a more concerted approach of government crisis communication appears to be associated with more stable public sentiments balanced between positives and negatives over the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Getting to 40!

2018 ◽  
pp. 267-284
Author(s):  
W Nutland
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis

There remains a lack of consensus about the extent to which pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) contributed to the recent dramatic and stunning declines in HIV incidence occurring in the United Kingdom. This chapter describes the potential role of PrEP in this decline and offers insights into how this occurred despite a lack of formal, government-sponsored support for PrEP. Further, the chapter describes the development of a new PrEP movement in England as well as contributing factors, such as the leadership of a new wave of HIV activists, access to global generic markets, innovative supply chains, and the use of social media and the Internet. The “U-turn” and subsequent court cases are also described.

Spotlight

2021 ◽  
pp. 106-108
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Young People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Text Line ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Crisis Counselors

In the darkest moments of their lives, young people are finding help through the Crisis Text Line (“text HOME to 741741”). 1 Now available in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, the resource provides access to trained crisis counselors who respond to texters around the clock, helping them to move beyond a crisis. Most people learn about the Crisis Text Line through social media....

Observations on Cholera,

1854 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 115-125
Author(s):  
Robt. Boyd
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Frequent Occurrence ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
The West ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Lunatic Asylums ◽  
Different Parts

“He came, he went, like the simoon, That harbinger of fate and gloom, Beneath whose widely-wasting breath, The very cypress droops to death.’'—Byron.The frequent occurrence of Cholera, in different parts of the United Kingdom, of late years, and its prevalence at present, secms to point out the necessity of our being prepared for its appearance, particularly in public institutions, and amongst others, Lunatic Asylums, which in some instances have suffered severely from this disease. In the West Riding of York Asylum, containing 633 patients, 98 are reported to have died from cholera in the autumn of 1849. The private asylums for pauper lunatics generally about London and in some other places, suffered more or less from the same epidemic; whether from cholera or some other cause, the mortality in the Lancaster Asylum was unusually high, 48 per cent in 1833, according to “a table of patients admitted, &c,” in the annual reports of that institution.

scholarly journals The Surveillance Dimensions of the Use of Social Media by UK Police Forces

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 89-104
Author(s):  
Elena M Egawhary
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Internal Policy ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Police Forces

This paper explores the various surveillance practices involved in the use of social media for communication and investigation purposes by UK police forces. In doing so, it analyses internal policy documents and official guidance obtained through freedom of information (FOI) requests sent to 46 police forces in the United Kingdom. This analysis finds that UK police forces advise their staff to simultaneously engage in both surveillance and counter-surveillance strategies in their use of social media as a policing tool.

New type of attacks calls for UK strategy revision

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Type ◽  
Violent Acts

Subject Counterterrorism policies. Significance The United Kingdom has been subjected to four deadly terrorist attacks in the first half of 2017. A car attack in Westminster in March left six people dead, an explosion at a concert in Manchester left 22 dead, while two more vehicular attacks in June left eight people dead in London Bridge and one person dead in Finsbury Park, London. This spike in successful attacks raises questions about the efficacy of the United Kingdom’s preventive measures against this type of extremism. Impacts ‘Local’ extremism will remain a threat while the strategies designed to reduce it are flawed. Cooperation with social media organisations could limit opportunities for like-minded extremists to plot violent acts. A greater focus on improving timely surveillance techniques may reduce the need for mass arrests following an attack.

Use of the internet and social media in the forestry profession in the United Kingdom

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Bogdanou ◽  
C. B. Starr ◽  
A. Weatherall ◽  
A. D. Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Internet And Social Media

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the 5G Conspiracy Theory: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Data

10.2196/19458 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. e19458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wasim Ahmed ◽  
Josep Vidal-Alaball ◽  
Joseph Downing ◽  
Francesc López Seguí
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Conspiracy Theory ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Twitter Data

Background Since the beginning of December 2019, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread rapidly around the world, which has led to increased discussions across online platforms. These conversations have also included various conspiracies shared by social media users. Amongst them, a popular theory has linked 5G to the spread of COVID-19, leading to misinformation and the burning of 5G towers in the United Kingdom. The understanding of the drivers of fake news and quick policies oriented to isolate and rebate misinformation are keys to combating it. Objective The aim of this study is to develop an understanding of the drivers of the 5G COVID-19 conspiracy theory and strategies to deal with such misinformation. Methods This paper performs a social network analysis and content analysis of Twitter data from a 7-day period (Friday, March 27, 2020, to Saturday, April 4, 2020) in which the #5GCoronavirus hashtag was trending on Twitter in the United Kingdom. Influential users were analyzed through social network graph clusters. The size of the nodes were ranked by their betweenness centrality score, and the graph’s vertices were grouped by cluster using the Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm. The topics and web sources used were also examined. Results Social network analysis identified that the two largest network structures consisted of an isolates group and a broadcast group. The analysis also revealed that there was a lack of an authority figure who was actively combating such misinformation. Content analysis revealed that, of 233 sample tweets, 34.8% (n=81) contained views that 5G and COVID-19 were linked, 32.2% (n=75) denounced the conspiracy theory, and 33.0% (n=77) were general tweets not expressing any personal views or opinions. Thus, 65.2% (n=152) of tweets derived from nonconspiracy theory supporters, which suggests that, although the topic attracted high volume, only a handful of users genuinely believed the conspiracy. This paper also shows that fake news websites were the most popular web source shared by users; although, YouTube videos were also shared. The study also identified an account whose sole aim was to spread the conspiracy theory on Twitter. Conclusions The combination of quick and targeted interventions oriented to delegitimize the sources of fake information is key to reducing their impact. Those users voicing their views against the conspiracy theory, link baiting, or sharing humorous tweets inadvertently raised the profile of the topic, suggesting that policymakers should insist in the efforts of isolating opinions that are based on fake news. Many social media platforms provide users with the ability to report inappropriate content, which should be used. This study is the first to analyze the 5G conspiracy theory in the context of COVID-19 on Twitter offering practical guidance to health authorities in how, in the context of a pandemic, rumors may be combated in the future.

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