Studying Television Violence: A Research Agenda for the 21st Century

Social media is the 21st-century media that has given every user an equal opportunity to publish news without passing through any form of gatekeeping, editorial, or professional scrutiny. This means that it has become a natural home for the spread of fake news even on the recent coronavirus with its consequent health implications. The authors deployed available materials and literature to discuss the burning issues surrounding fake news as misleading information on social media, especially how social media has become a natural home for fake news on coronavirus. More so, this paper reviewed the literature on the effects of fake news on coronavirus and then motivations for sharing fake news online as a way to provide a start-off point for an understanding of why social media misinformation on Corona virus has spread. The authors concluded by presenting a gap in literature, in addition to a research agenda for studies on the spread of health-related disinformation in Nigeria.

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The most unique discussion of the 21st century? The debate on the Anthropocene pictured in seven points

The Anthropocene Review ◽

10.1177/2053019619848215 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (1-2) ◽

pp. 3-18 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ewa Bińczyk

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Political Change ◽

Central Problem ◽

The Future

Nineteen years after Stoermer’s and Crutzen’s proposal, the article poses questions regarding the sources of the captivating uniqueness dwelling in the idea of the Anthropocene and in the debate surrounding it. The distinctiveness of the Anthropocene debate is elucidated in seven points. These points discuss: (1) a shocking confrontation of timeframes, (2) the drama surrounding the risk of losing the future, (3) a bold reinterpretation of the basic philosophical concepts, (4) the unification of different disciplines around a common research agenda, (5) the central problem of irreversibility, (6) the eschatological dimension of the debate, (7) the vision of the debate as a warning and a catalyst for political change.

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Forced Migration Magnitude and violence in international crises: 1945–2015

Journal of Refugee Studies ◽

10.1093/jrs/feaa039 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 336-357

Author(s):

Hemda Ben-Yehuda ◽

Rami Goldstein

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

21St Century ◽

Empirical Data ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Forced Migration ◽

International Crises ◽

International Crisis ◽

Crisis Behavior ◽

New Research ◽

Security Concern

Abstract This study focuses on forced migration and interstate violence during international crises, as a major security concern with salient implications for international relations stability. The empirical data consists of 229 crises designated as Forced Migration Crises (FMC), identified within the 374 crises of the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) project. The study outlines a framework for analyzing FMC compared with Non-Forced Migration Crises (NFMC), presents an index of Forced Migration Magnitude (FMM), and probes three hypotheses. It points to transformations in forced migration since WWII, compares crises with and without forced migration, and explores patterns of FMM and violence. Results lead to rejection of hypothesis 1 on similarities between FMC and NFMC, supporting hypothesis 2 on considerable diversity between them. Findings on extended scope, strategic locale, enduring forced migration problems and increased violence support hypothesis 3, challenging the placement of forced migration merely as a social or humanitarian domestic concern. Instead, results show a salient increase in FMM, coupled with more severe interstate violence and war, dangerously destabilizing regions worldwide. These patterns require the integration of forced migration within crisis frameworks, as a new research agenda, to understand the nature of forced migration in the 21st century and its impact.

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