scholarly journals Cultural Variance in Reception and Interpretation of Social Media COVID-19 Disinformation in French-Speaking Regions

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12624
Author(s):  
Brian Hughes ◽  
Kesa White ◽  
Jennifer West ◽  
Meili Criezis ◽  
Cindy Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
French Language ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Message Content ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Public Health Officials ◽  
National Boundaries

Digital communication technology has created a world in which media are capable of crossing national boundaries as never before. As a result, language is increasingly the salient category determining individuals’ media consumption. Today, a single social media post can travel around the world, reaching anyone who speaks its language. This poses significant challenges to combatting the spread of disinformation, as an ever-growing pool of disinformation purveyors reach audiences larger than ever before. This dynamic is complicated, however, by the diversity of audience interpretations of message content within a particular language group. Both across and within national boundaries, a single message may be subject to a variety of interpretations depending on the cultural experiences and identities of its recipients. This study explores that dynamic through analysis of French language anti-vaccine and COVID-denialist disinformation. Using qualitative coding methodology, a team of researchers empirically identify common and far-reaching patterns of Francophone COVID disinformation narratives and rhetoric. These narratives and rhetorics are then subjected to hermeneutic close reading to determine likely variations in their reception across different French-speaking cultures. Data were gathered and analyzed between the dates of 24 March 2021 and 27 April 2021. Results of this study indicate the need for awareness on the part of public health officials combatting COVID disinformation online, for both the transnational reach of disinformation targeting speakers of a single language and for variations in meaning and salience across cultures within that language group.

scholarly journals POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF USING SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

InterConf ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Aygun Abdulova ◽  
Fatima Khosroshahi ◽  
Nargiz Mehdiyeva ◽  
Fidan Asgarzade
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Web

Information and communication technology has changed rapidly over the past 20 years, with a key development being the emergence of social media. Social media alludes to all applications and websites or blogs that empower individuals around the globe to interconnect through the web, chat, and share substance, video call among numerous other functionalities it offers to its clients. For a individual to be a part of any social media, he or she has got to begin with signup and after that sign in to get to substance and be able to share and chat with other clients of that social media stage. Over the past two decades, social media have picked up so much development and popularity around the world to an degree that numerous analysts are presently inquisitive about learning more almost these social stages and their impacts on the community. Despite the reality that nearly everybody within the community is associated to at slightest one social media stage, the youth and young people are the driving and most aficionado of these social stages to the point that they indeed social organize whereas in course or indeed church. It is to this light that analysts have found that these social locales affect the lives of our youth in a society a extraordinary bargain in terms of ethics, behavior and indeed education-wise.

scholarly journals A Critical Review of the Impacts of Digital Citizenship on Teachers and Students’ Educational Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 557-564
Author(s):  
Mohammad Naim Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Development ◽  
Information Communication Technology ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students

The teachers and students' engagement on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, and other online and offline platforms for the purpose of teaching and learning are considered as digital citizenship in education. These social media have also exposed the users to admit several rights and mutual values. However, the enhancement of technology has motivated these citizens not only to communicate across the world but also to build platforms to practice and learn new knowledge and skills. This article is proposed to review the impacts of digital citizenship on teachers and students' educational development. Therefore, a critical review of the literature is conducted. The data is collected using Google Scholar with the scope of the topic and the criteria mainly between 2011 to 2021. The data analysis procedure and identifying codes, patterns, and similar themes have motivated the authors to present and discuss the results and findings thematically. The results show that the fundamental elements of digital citizenship are the internet, technological tools, social media, and responsible behaviors of the users on the platforms. The findings also indicate that the development of information communication technology and virtual practices are serving digital citizens to be involved in many related and unrelated activities which need to be controlled by an authentic policy. Since the growing technology of the world is transforming the paradigms including the students' needs, the layout of the classrooms, and the stakeholders' requirement for employability. Investigating these continuing needs contributes to the efforts to lead the information communication technology integration into educational circumstances and address the local and national policies, facilitating the infrastructure, enhancing the educational settings, cybersecurity issues, and privacy accountability among educators and the learners.

THE FORMATION OF THE INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF LA FRANCOPHONIE

2018 ◽  
pp. 189-197
Author(s):  
Darina Vladimirovna NALETOVA
Keyword(s):  
International Association ◽  
International Organization ◽  
French Language ◽  
African Countries ◽  
National Education ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The World ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Institutional System

We examine questions of historical formation of the International Organization of La Francophonie as an institutional system (1950–1980). The characterization and analysis of the initial stages of the International Organization of La Francophonie institutionalization allows a better understanding of its historical and modern ideological principles. It is noted that the world system of Francophonie begins to take shape in the middle of the 20th century. We analyze various projects for the creation of the International Organization of La Francophonie, which influenced the legal structure of the organization, its traditions, as well as relations with french-speaking states and other linguistic associations (International Association of French-Speaking Journalists and Press, The Union of French Culture, The Conference of Ministers of National Education of French-Speaking States, etc.). It shows the importance of both Western European and African countries and their political leaders in the development of the Francophonie project as an international organization, as well as the leading role of France. It is noted that the whole Francophone space became the springboard of the Union’s actions, and the goal was to protect and spread the French language and Francophone culture in the world. We conclude that the process of institutionalization of the International Organization of La Francophonie has played a huge role in maintaining the status of the French language and the role of France in the global space.

scholarly journals Fake News in Social Kurdish Media in Kurdistan Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-150
Author(s):  
Nawzad Sadiq Muhammad ◽  
Kamil Omer Sleman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Focus Group Interview ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Spot Area ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Environmental

Fake news becomes a phenomenon in the Kurdish social media. The easiness of use and the political and social environmental crisis of northern Kurdistan besides non-professional dealing by a number of journalists worsen the situation. Despite the fact that fake news does not stemmed from the modern technology of information and the advent of using media for psychology and propaganda war but, the easiness of accessing social media makes the online platforms to be the main mediums of disseminating fake news. The openness of northern Kurdistan towards new communication technology and the semi-freedom of journalistic working and partisan activities help this part of the world to be a spot area for spreading fake news phenomenon; which became an interesting topic for many scholars around the world mainly after the presidential elections of United States of America in 2016. In this exploratory study, focus group interview used for collecting data and thematic analysis approach adopted for analysing it. Results show that spreading fake news through the Kurdish social media becomes a prevailing phenomenon. Various political and economy purposes can be identified behind disseminating fake news. Adding to increasing activity of variety of pages and accounts created with this respect through different names. Although of prevailing of the phenomena, a number of procedures can be taken in order to put a line for common of the phenomena including covering fake news through creating parasite account and pages and detecting the source of such piece of information.

The Belgo-Belgian conflict in individual narratives: Psychodynamics of trauma in the history of Belgium

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susann Heenen-Wolff ◽  
Anne Verougstraete ◽  
Ariane Bazan
Keyword(s):  
French Language ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
The Impact

On the basis of interviews, we highlight important historical elements with potential traumatic implications in order to understand some of the psychological roots of the current conflict-ridden relationship between French-speaking and Flemish Belgian citizens. We suggest that this conflict has a complex psychodynamic structure. Due to former experiences of shame, humiliation, disdain and contempt, two concomitant but asymmetrical defensive processes can be observed: repression in the French-language group, dissociation or rejection in the Flemish group. In particular, we hypothesize that the war experiences traumatized the Flemish identity in a complex way, generating an internal defensive pressure characterized by dissociation. The impact of these psychological processes on the current political situation is explored.

scholarly journals Changes in Vietnamese language from globalization and localization

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-239
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
French Language ◽  
Free Movement ◽  
Specific Location ◽  
Entire Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Free Movement Of Goods ◽  
Opening Up

The paper demonstrates the role of globalization and localization in the process of Vietnam’s interaction and integration with other cultures, causing changes in Vietnamese language. Globalization is defined as the free movement of goods, services and people of the worldwide scope across the borders of countries, resulted from the opening up of the global economy and advances of technologies. The increasing interconnectedness and integration of the economies of the world furnish more influx of information among countries which do not have anything in common and Internet and social media well contribute to such spread. Not only the pros but the cons of globalization are used to explain the part of localization as the entire process of adapting a product or content to a specific location or market. The paper indicates localization as the Vietnamese people’s endeavor to adapt Vietnamese language to the world while protecting and enhancing the national characters. The differences between localization and globalization are analyzed to demonstrate the value and requirements of localization in the present time. The influences of Sino-Vietnamese and French language are also found out as evidences of the phenomena. The changes of Vietnamese language from globalization and localization are illustrated with devices, ideas and images referring to the objects, actions or ideas.

scholarly journals Introduction: Francophone Theatre Today

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-195
Author(s):  
Kevin Elstob
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
French Language ◽  
Cultural Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Population Numbers

In the wake of French colonization, exploration and trade throughout the world, the French language permeated cultures on five continents. Depending on the source of the statistics, today's world-wide French-speaking population numbers anywhere from 67 to 450 million people. It is estimated that in the year 2000 there will be 500 million French speakers. French is the world's twelfth language, but next to English, the only language to be spoken on all five major continents. From such statistics we might project a community, but do these figures represent a genuinely united people? And, why, if the francophone community is growing should French governmental and cultural organizations be so concerned about the preservation of French? Before examining these questions, let us briefly outline the evolution of ‘la francophonie’.

Emotive Trending And Tracking of Tweets

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Sanjay Chhataru Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Complex Events

Popularity of the social media and the amount of importance given by an individual to social media has significantly increased in last few years. As more and more people become part of the social networks like Twitter, Facebook, information which flows through the social network, can potentially give us good understanding about what is happening around in our locality, state, nation or even in the world. The conceptual motive behind the project is to develop a system which analyses about a topic searched on Twitter. It is designed to assist Information Analysts in understanding and exploring complex events as they unfold in the world. The system tracks changes in emotions over events, signalling possible flashpoints or abatement. For each trending topic, the system also shows a sentiment graph showing how positive and negative sentiments are trending as the topic is getting trended.

Impact of Social Media on English Language: A Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Dr. Neha Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
English Language ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
International Level ◽  
Class Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
Subsequent Rise

Language being a potent vehicle of transmitting cultural values, norms and beliefs remains a central factor in determining the status of any nation. India is a multilingual country which tends to encourage people to use English at national and international level. Basically English in India owes its presence to the British but its subsequent rise is not fully attributable to the British. It has now become the language of wider communication which is now spoken by large number of people all over the world. It is influenced by many factors such as class, society, developments in science and technology etc. However the major influence on English language is and has been the media.

The role of social networking sites in the revolution of 25 January 2011 Egyptian

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Qassim Alwan Saeed ◽  
Khairallah Sabhan Abdullah Al-Jubouri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
The World ◽  
The Revolution

Social media sites have recently gain an essential importance in the contemporary societies، actually، these sites isn't simply a personal or social tool of communication among people، its role had been expanded to become "political"، words such as "Facebook، Twitter and YouTube" are common words in political fields of our modern days since the uprisings of Arab spring، which sometimes called (Facebook revolutions) as a result of the major impact of these sites in broadcasting process of the revolution message over the world by organize and manage the revolution progresses in spite of the governmental ascendance and official prohibition.

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