COVID-19 in Mexico: Perception and knowledge of the pandemic in the Mexican population through the application of online surveys. (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Ernesto Villarreal-Benavides.
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Preventive Measure ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Media Platforms

BACKGROUND COVID-19 pandemic has had a great impact on Mexican society. People have unique perceptions and reactions to an event of such magnitude. A practical way to measure this impact it is by means of perception, hence applying online surveys, through social media platforms to ensure higher response rates and results in a fast pace. OBJECTIVE Inquire about knowledge and perception in the face of the COVID 19 pandemic in Mexico. METHODS This is a transversal, descriptive study. The survey included questions about: general data, knowledge about the virus, adaptations in job, economy, and health basis and new hygiene practices and implementations, all since the beginning of the pandemics. The survey included a section with top news headlines images about Covid-19 in Mexico for people to relate the first feeling the image caused in them. The survey was conducted through social media platforms like Facebook© and WhatsApp© during the week of April 5th through 9th 2020, week that corresponded to phase 2 of the epidemic in Mexico. The participants were informed of the nature of this study and that their participation is voluntary, anonymous and confidential. A percentage of all results were determined. RESULTS 2798 responses were analyzed. 99.9% of the participants approved the consent and answered the survey. The average profile of the citizen who answered this survey were between the age group of 21-40 years (51%), in relation to gender, mostly females (81%) Education up to bachelor's degree (80%) Residency, Nuevo León, México (42%), occupation: Other than health field related (47%), Income: $20,001- $50,000 Mexican pesos (18%), have health service (64%), have children (73%) of which are under 12 years old (43%). Almost 100% recognized the transmission of coronavirus and the symptoms of COVID-19. 99% of the surveyed, stated that hand washing implement, outcome as main preventive measure of transmission. 74.9% categorized themselves as having an overall “good” health, nonetheless 50% suffer from chronic diseases, making hypertension and obesity (22%) the most frequent combination of ailment. About lockdown and employment 71% were complying with the lockdown measures: 30% full salary and 1% was fired. 28% of the population surveyed prefers social media to update information and 72% recognizes worrisome is the predominant mood. The major reactions to the images shown were: worry and anger. Concern was expressed about the economy of the country and the world at the end of the pandemic in a 97% of the surveyed. CONCLUSIONS Social media is a great device for massive data diffusion, between different targeted populations. Quick on-line surveys could be an important tool to track knowledge and perceptions among the population, during large events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The results presented in this article could help society in general, as well as health authorities, medical personnel, Government and media, to learn about the population's perceptions and needs in such an event like this pandemic, therefore take preventive measures and, above all, support the mental health of the population’s topic.

Cultural Identity Preservation Through Social Media

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurhayat Bilge
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Identity Negotiation ◽  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
Identity Preservation ◽  
Shared History ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Media Platforms

This chapter explores cultural identity negotiation on social media for a specific refugee group. Previous research indicates the importance of a sense of community and cultural preservation in regards to establishing and maintaining a cultural identity for this specific group. The group, Meskhetian Turks, is an example of ethnic identity and an established ethnicity through shared history and struggle. This chapter focuses on the virtual implications of the group's identity in social media. More specifically, it explores how social media platforms serve as a cultural unifier, where cultural identity is maintained and perpetuated in the face of an unattainable physical homeland.

Yik Yak: An Exploratory Study of College Student Uses and Gratifications

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mitchell Vaterlaus
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
College Student ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
Yik Yak ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Publically launched in 2013 and discontinued in 2017, Yik Yak was an anonymous and geographically restricted social media application. A uses and gratifications theoretical framework and a mixed-methods research design were selected for this exploratory study regarding differences between Yik Yak users and nonusers. College students ( n = 264) from a western university completed online surveys regarding Yik Yak in November of 2015. Results indicated that Yik Yak users were significantly younger than nonusers, and no significant differences were identified between Yik Yak users’ and nonusers’ reported time spent with other social media platforms (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat). Qualitative results indicated that college students who used Yik Yak did so for informational, entertainment, agency-enhancement, and community-building purposes. Nonusers chose not to use Yik Yak because the application did not meet their needs, they were unaware of Yik Yak, and because of unfavorable content.

scholarly journals Social Media Behaviors and Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Associations With Anxiety, Depression, and Stress

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mitchell Vaterlaus ◽  
Lori A. Spruance ◽  
Emily V. Patten
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Forward Stepwise ◽  
Anxiety Depression

The majority of research concerning public health crises and social media platforms has focused on analyzing the accuracy of information within social media posts. The current exploratory study explored social media users’ specific social media behaviors and experiences during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic and whether these behaviors and experiences related to anxiety, depression, and stress. Data were collected March 21–31, 2020 from adults in the United States (<em>N</em> = 564) through snowball sampling on social media sites and Prime Panels. Online surveys included questions regarding social media use during the pandemic and the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS). Forward stepwise modeling procedures were used to build three models for anxiety, stress, and depression. Participants who actively engaged with COVID-19 social media content were more likely to experience higher anxiety. Those who had emotional experiences via social media and used social media to connect during the pandemic were susceptible to higher levels of stress and depression. The current study suggests that during the pandemic specific behaviors and experiences via social media were related to anxiety, stress, and depression. Thus, limiting time spent on social media during public health crises may protect the mental health of individuals.

“Swiggy it!”

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Tulasi Srinivas
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Food Delivery ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Media Platforms

This article is a critical inquiry into the shifting nature of the local and the proximate during the COVID-19 pandemic, through the ubiquitous usage of food delivery software applications, or “gastro apps,” in Bangalore, India. I invite a new way to think about the local—both the lived experience of locality and its mapping in techno-location—in the face of the expanding virtual terrain of the global political economy and the foreclosing social worlds of the pandemic, to interrogate the growing disjuncture between local territory and subjectivity and the increasing conjuncture between locality and consumption. Through innovative methodologies using social media platforms, I trace the complex interactions on the popular Swiggy gastro app between migrant deliverymen and middle-class consumers in Bangalore in order to map social worlds of residency, immutability, and nearness, as well as migrancy, precarity, and distance, upon one another, which I argue form an “emergent gastro geography,” where critical interventions in taste, place, and want meet and in which the concepts of the local, the dislocated, and the locational take on new meanings.

Social Media for Health Communication

2014 ◽  
pp. 237-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Cioni ◽  
Alessandro Lovari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Health Organizations ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Public Health Organizations ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Local Health Authorities

The aim of this chapter is to highlight the current issues and the challenging process of the adoption of social media by Italian local health authorities (ASL). After a literature review of the role of social media for health organizations, the authors focus their attention on how social network sites are modifying health communication and relations with citizens in Italy. They conduct an exploratory study articulated in three stages: after mapping the presence of local health authorities on the most popular social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), they carry out a content analysis to describe the prevalent kinds of messages published in the official Facebook timelines; in the third phase, using several interviews with healthcare directors and communications managers, the authors investigate implementation issues, managerial implications, and constraints that influence proper use of these participative platforms by Italian public health organizations. Limitations and further steps of the research are discussed.

scholarly journals Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest – nowe perspektywy badawcze

Adeptus ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Czarkowska ◽  
Anna Gumkowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
New Research ◽  
Analytical Tools

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest – new research perspectivesThe goal of this paper is to present the vast array of content that is emerging within social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest and analyze the ways in which they can be classified. This is a review of the available interdisciplinary methods and factors that should be taken into consideration when researching the genelogy of the texts that arise in the network. The Internet has changed the face of social communication. It has highlighted processes that were much less visible before. The challenge for researchers is to analyze the enormous amount of content and incorporate it into a classification system. Above all, statements made on social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, require analysis. Previous attempts to systematize them did not correspond to the reality of the network. Research on the Internet genres and communication forms requires the use of relevant analytical tools and interdisciplinary approaches. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest – nowe perspektywy badawczeCelem publikacji jest zaprezentowanie ogromnej liczby różnorodnych treści, które powstają w ramach platform społecznościowych: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram i Pinterest, oraz analiza dostępnych sposobów ich klasyfikacji. Chodzi zatem o przegląd dostępnych interdyscyplinarnych metod i czynników, które warto brać pod uwagę przy badaniach genologicznych tekstów, które powstają w sieci. Internet zmienił oblicze społecznej komunikacji. Uwypuklił procesy, które do tej pory nie były tak widoczne. Wyzwaniem dla badaczy jest analiza ogromnej ilości treści i ujęcie ich w system klasyfikacji. Analizy wymagają przede wszystkim komunikaty powstające w ramach mediów społecznościowych, takich jak Facebook, Twitter, Instagram i Pinterest. Dotychczasowe próby systematyzacji nie odpowiadały realiom sieci. Badania form gatunkowo-komunikacyjnych internetu wymagają wykorzystywania przynależnych sieci narzędzi analitycznych oraz podejścia interdyscyplinarnego.

scholarly journals Social media as political hatred mode in Malaysia’s 2018 General Election

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 02005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Chinnasamy ◽  
Norain Abdul Manaf
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
General Election ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
The People ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
False News

In the era of technological advancement, with smartphones and digital devices, almost everybody can have access to the Internet. We move at very fast pace along with the information that we carry and every each of it will rapidly processed. Especially on social media platforms, where false news or scandals that revolve around pundits or the higher up often create chaos and triggers public interest. Malaysia had its 14th General Election (GE14) dated 9th May, 2018. It was believed to be the most nerve-wracking, fiercest general election to ever happen where after 61 years, Barisan Nasional (BN) had to bow down to the voice of Malaysians where social media is part of the factor, utilised ultimately to influence the people and powerful enough to change people’s perception, thus, create political hatred. A textual analysis was conducted on 187 news on six online news stations’ social media platform during the 11 days of campaigning. In-depth interviews were also conducted to discover the political hatred issues on social media. The findings suggested issues like Goods and Service Tax (GST), candidates’ reputations and 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal are the main causes of political hatred expressed on social media platforms.

scholarly journals PUBLIC REACTION TO COVID-19 ON TWITTER: A THEMATIC ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
pp. 349-358
Author(s):  
Akif Mustafa ◽  
Imaduddin Ansari ◽  
Subham Kumar Mohanta ◽  
Shalem Balla
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Public Reaction

Emergency situations typically lead to a plethora of public attention on social media platforms like ‘Twitter’. Twitter provides a unique opportunity for public health researchers to analyze untampered information shared during a disease outbreak. Considering the ongoing public health emergency, we conducted a study investigating the public reaction to COVID-19 pandemic around the world using in-depth thematic analysis of Twitter data. A dataset of 212846 tweets was retrieved over a period of seven days (from April 13, 2020, to April 19, 2020) via Twitter Application Programme Interface (API). The following five keywords were used to collect the tweets: “coronavirus”, “covid-19”, “corona”, “covid”, “covid19”. After data filtering and cleaning 6348 tweets were randomly selected for in-depth thematic analysis. Thematic analysis was done manually using a two-level coding guide. A total of six main themes emerged from the analysis: ‘sentiments and feelings’, ‘Information’, ‘General Discussion’, ‘Politics’, ‘Food’, and ‘Sarcasm or humor’. The aforementioned themes were divided into 26 sub-themes. The results of the thematic analysis show that 30.1% of the tweets were regarding ‘sentiments and feelings’, 15.6% were regarding ‘politics’, and 6.5% were related to ‘sarcasm or humor’. The present study is the first study that has analyzed the public response to COVID-19 on Twitter. The study demonstrates that social media platforms (like Twitter) can be used to conduct infodemiological studies related to public health emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic. We believe that the results of this study will be of potential interest to policymakers, health authorities, stakeholders, and public health and social science researchers. KEYWORDS:COVID-19, Twitter, Social Media, Coronavirus, Lockdown, Pandemic

scholarly journals CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE AMBIVALENT POTENTIALS OF SOCIAL MEDIA USE IN COVID 19 PANDEMIC CAMPAIGNS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ephraim Ejimnkeonye Ezebuenyi ◽  
Rosemary Obianuju Ekwunife ◽  
Felicia Chinyere Nweke
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
World Health ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Media Platforms

The fear created by the Coronavirus as seen in the world today and the manner social media is churning out all manner of information (misinformation, disinformation, memes, innuendos, half - truths, lies etc.) about its cure and prevention is creating a situation of uncertainty. The situation becomes more disturbing since none of the claims in social media platforms regarding the therapies and recipes (solutions) for the cure or prevention of COVID-19 has been approved or certified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) or the Centre for Disease Control (CDC). It seems, however, that only the prevalence of social media can suffice for the provision of adequate, regular and up - to - date information on the pandemic. This can also explain the reason for leveraging social media platforms to enhance fast and wide diffusion of knowledge about Coronavirus all over the world. By its nature, social media allows for information to be readily shared – a role it has seemingly played in the face of the COVID- 19 pandemic - and unlike traditional news outlets there is no filter, no fact - checking and often a lot of bias. It becomes imperative therefore to assess the ambivalent potentials which social media display in the face of COVID- 19 pandemic vis-à-vis the impacts they have on the consumers of the information. The paper adopted the library research approach in which relevant conceptual literatures and empirical studies were analysed with the aim to ascertain whether social media display ambivalence in the campaign against the spread of COVID-19. The paper found, among others that the ambivalent potentials of social media use in the campaign against COVID-19 was glaring. It recommends, among others that consumers of social media products in this period should listen more to and, or check for updates by governments and other authorised agencies such as WHO and CDC rather than relying on unwholesome information from social media platforms.

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