scholarly journals Endangering the Endangered: Impact of fake Covid-19 Social Media Communications in Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Mhute ◽  
Hugh Mangeya ◽  
Ernest Jakaza
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Species ◽  
The People ◽  
Media Communications ◽  
The Government ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Great Danger

The human species is in great danger of extinction due to the novel coronavirus that was first detected in China around December 2019. By March 2021, the world had witnessed over 116million cases, of which 36,223 are Zimbabwean. The disease that the coronavirus stimulates is quite fatal and has seen 2.57million lives succumbing to it, of which 1483 are Zimbabwean, by the same date. No cure has been discovered for it yet, though scientific researchers have already discovered several vaccines with varying efficacies. Employing a socio-pragmatic approach, the chapter explores the impact of fake covid-19 social media communications on efforts to minimize infections and fatalities in Zimbabwe, an already endangered country. It accomplishes this by qualitatively analyzing purposively sampled fake communications in circulation on social media as well as some of the utterances and behaviors people make in response to them. The chapter demonstrates the negative impact of the communications on international mitigating efforts and emphasizes the need for the government, media practitioners and social workers to always be watchful for such misleading communications and in every case to quickly counter their impact by availing correct information to the people.

scholarly journals Differential Equation Analysis on COVID-19

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Keyword(s):  
Hot Spot ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
The People ◽  
Equation Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
And Control

An infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus called COVID-19 has raged across the world since December 2019. The novel coronavirus first appeared in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread to Asia and now many countries around the world are affected by the epidemic. The deaths of many patients, including medical staff, caused social panic, media attention, and high attention from governments and world organizations. Today, with the joint efforts of the government, the doctors and all walks of life, the epidemic in Hubei Province has been brought under control, preventing its spread from affecting the lives of the people. Because of its rapid spread and serious consequences, this sudden novel coronary pneumonia epidemic has become an important social hot spot event. Through the analysis of the novel coronary pneumonia epidemic situation, we can also have a better understanding of sudden infectious diseases in the future, so that we can take more effective response measures, establish a truly predictable and provide reliable and sufficient information for prevention and control model.

scholarly journals Dampak Pariwisata terhadap Aspek Sosial Budaya Masyarakat Desa Adat Kemiren di Kabupaten Banyuwangi

REPRESENTAMEN ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andhika Wahyudiono ◽  
Dimas Imaniar
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
The People ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Cultural tourism is the main attraction in the traditional village of Kemiren, Banyuwangi Regency. Macananegara tourists as well as domestic tourists visit the traditional village of Kemiren to witness first-hand the life of the Osing tribe which is still traditional. This research was conducted to determine the impact of tourism on the socio-cultural aspects of the people of the Kemiren traditional village, Banyuwangi Regency. This research is a qualitative research. Meanwhile, the strategy carried out by the government is in the form of preventive actions such as outreach to MSME players, making local regulations on tourism and study tours of tourism management with tourism business actors. The basic conclusion in this study later is, as a cultural tourism destination in general, the ongoing tourism industry activities affect the socio-cultural aspects of the Osing community, the Kemiren traditional village, Banyuwangi Regency. In addition, the increase in the community's economy is also encouraged due to changes in the livelihoods of local residents, as well as local government strategies in the form of policy making are expected to be able to minimize the negative impact of tourism. Cultural tourism in the traditional village of Kemiren, Banyuwangi Regency is used as a tool to maintain the cultural existence of the Kemiren traditional village, which is currently being abandoned by the Osing tribe, the traditional village of Kemiren, Banyuwangi Regency.Keywords: Tourism, Socio-culture, Osing Tribe

A Language-independent Network to Analyze the Impact of COVID-19 on the World via Sentiment Analysis

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Ashima Yadav ◽  
Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma
Keyword(s):  
Sentiment Classification ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Public Health Agencies ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
The People ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Government ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact

Towards the end of 2019, Wuhan experienced an outbreak of novel coronavirus, which soon spread worldwide, resulting in a deadly pandemic that infected millions of people around the globe. The public health agencies followed many strategies to counter the fatal virus. However, the virus severely affected the lives of the people. In this paper, we study the sentiments of people from the top five worst affected countries by the virus, namely the USA, Brazil, India, Russia, and South Africa. We propose a deep language-independent Multilevel Attention-based Conv-BiGRU network (MACBiG-Net) , which includes embedding layer, word-level encoded attention, and sentence-level encoded attention mechanisms to extract the positive, negative, and neutral sentiments. The network captures the subtle cues in a document by focusing on the local characteristics of text along with the past and future context information for the sentiment classification. We further develop a COVID-19 Sentiment Dataset by crawling the tweets from Twitter and applying topic modeling to extract the hidden thematic structure of the document. The classification results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves an accuracy of 85%, which is higher than other well-known algorithms for sentiment classification. The findings show that the topics which evoked positive sentiments were related to frontline workers, entertainment, motivation, and spending quality time with family. The negative sentiments were related to socio-economic factors like racial injustice, unemployment rates, fake news, and deaths. Finally, this study provides feedback to the government and health professionals to handle future outbreaks and highlight future research directions for scientists and researchers.

scholarly journals COVID-19–Related Rumor Content, Transmission, and Clarification Strategies in China: Descriptive Study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peishan Ning ◽  
Peixia Cheng ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Ming Zheng ◽  
David C Schwebel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Medical Supplies ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

BACKGROUND Given the permeation of social media throughout society, rumors spread faster than ever before, which significantly complicates government responses to public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE We aimed to examine the characteristics and propagation of rumors during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in China and evaluated the effectiveness of health authorities’ release of correction announcements. METHODS We retrieved rumors widely circulating on social media in China during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and assessed the effectiveness of official government clarifications and popular science articles refuting those rumors. RESULTS We show that the number of rumors related to the COVID-19 pandemic fluctuated widely in China between December 1, 2019 and April 15, 2020. Rumors mainly occurred in 3 provinces: Hubei, Zhejiang, and Guangxi. Personal social media accounts constituted the major source of media reports of the 4 most widely distributed rumors (the novel coronavirus can be prevented with “Shuanghuanglian”: 7648/10,664, 71.7%; the novel coronavirus is the SARS coronavirus: 14,696/15,902, 92.4%; medical supplies intended for assisting Hubei were detained by the local government: 3911/3943, 99.2%; asymptomatically infected persons were regarded as diagnosed COVID-19 patients with symptoms in official counts: 322/323, 99.7%). The number of rumors circulating was positively associated with the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic (ρ=0.88, 95% CI 0.81-0.93). The release of correction articles was associated with a substantial decrease in the proportion of rumor reports compared to accurate reports. The proportions of negative sentiments appearing among comments by citizens in response to media articles disseminating rumors and disseminating correct information differ insignificantly (both correct reports: χ<sub>1</sub><sup>2</sup>=0.315, <i>P</i>=.58; both rumors: χ<sub>1</sub><sup>2</sup>=0.025, <i>P</i>=.88; first rumor and last correct report: χ<sub>1</sub><sup>2</sup>=1.287, <i>P</i>=.26; first correct report and last rumor: χ<sub>1</sub><sup>2</sup>=0.033, <i>P</i>=.86). CONCLUSIONS Our results highlight the importance and urgency of monitoring and correcting false or misleading reports on websites and personal social media accounts. The circulation of rumors can influence public health, and government bodies should establish guidelines to monitor and mitigate the negative impact of such rumors.

scholarly journals Risk Perception, Self-Efficacy, Trust in Government, and the Moderating Role of Perceived Social Media Content During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Mohmmed Salah Hassan ◽  
Hussam Al Halbusi ◽  
Ali Najem ◽  
Asbah Razali ◽  
Fadi Abdel Muniem Abdel Fattah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact

The public’s actions will likely have a significant effect on the course of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Human behavior is conditioned and shaped by information and people’s perceptions. This study investigated the impact of risk perception on trust in government and self-efficacy. It examined whether the use of social media helped people adopt preventive actions during the pandemic. To test this hypothesis, the researchers gathered data from 512 individuals (students and academics) based in Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results suggested that risk perception had a significant effect on trust in government and self-efficacy. Moreover, these correlations were stronger when social media was used as a source for gathering information on COVID-19. In some cases, it even helped users avoid exposure to the virus. This study assessed the relationship between risk perception and the awareness gained from using social media during the pandemic and highlighted how social media usage influences trust in government and self-efficacy.

scholarly journals NIGERIA-IMF RELATIONSHIP AND ITS IMPACT ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND STANDARD OF LIVING IN NIGERIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Raziqa Muhammad Shafiu ◽  
Mohd Afandi Salleh
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The People ◽  
Social Insecurity ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Imf

<em>This study examines the relationship between Nigeria and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and also traces its impact on Human Rights and Standard of living. Therefore, it assesses the impact of IMF on Human Rights and the living standards of Nigerians, as it was assumed that Nigeria's relationship with the IMF was the key cause of poverty, social insecurity, economic inequalities and a decrease in people's living standards. Primary data sources, such as official records, newspapers, journals, and books, were used to gather data for research, while the Theory of Human Rights and Dependency Theory was used as the basis for this study. The study discovered that externally enforced economic liberalization does not enhance economic development and degrades government human rights practices. The study also assumed that Nigeria's relationship with the IMF was more detrimental than positive and thus had a direct negative impact on the general standard of living of the people. It was suggested that the government should attempt to diversify the economy, reshape its relationship with international financial institutions, such as the IMF and the World Bank, and provide people with adequate facilities to raise their living standards.</em>

scholarly journals Bio-statistical Analysis on the Enterprise Dynamic Management in the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Chinese Economy ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Dynamic Management ◽  
Peak Period ◽  
The Government ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

Background: With the worldwide spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the global economy has entered a cold winter, and the International Monetary Fund predicts that the global economy will shrink by about 3% in 2020. The outbreak of the epidemic has also caused heavy losses to the Chinese economy. In the first quarter of 2020, actual GDP fell sharply for the first time by 6.8% year-on-year for the first time. This is the first decline since record. Then, according to the data from the business survey in March, China's economy has improved compared with February, which shows that the economy has rebounded under the influence of policies. Judging from the current situation, although China has passed the peak period of the epidemic, affected by the high cases abroad, it can only be carried out slowly for the resumption of production. Enterprises, as micro-individuals under the macro economy, need to pass through analyzing the dynamic management of the enterprise to deepen the reform of the commercial system and stimulate the vitality of the enterprise. This will also provide data support for the government formulating relevant policies, which is conducive to the synergy of various policies and enhance the momentum of economic recovery. On the other hand, we choose tourism as our specific research object. Thus, we need to set different scenarios according to the development situation of the epidemic, evaluate the impact of the novel coronavirus epidemic on China's tourism industry, and discuss tourism development and opportunities in the post-epidemic era from the aspects of tourism's response to the epidemic and the development trend of the tourism after the epidemic [4].

scholarly journals UPAYA PENANGGULANGAN PENYEBARAN WABAH NOVEL CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (Covid-19) DI KELURAHAN TANJUNG AGUNG KECAMATAN SUNGAI SERUT KOTA BENGKULU

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Rumyta Shandrah ◽  
Hesti Pujiwati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Work Program ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Akhir-akhir ini masyarakat dunia tengah diguncang dengan virus yang sudah ditetapkan menjadi pandemi dunia, ialah novel coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Maka dari itu, program kerja yang diusulkan pada KKN Mandiri UNIB 91 ini berfokus pada membantu pemerintah untuk memaksimalkan upaya pencegahan penyebaran lebih luas. Metode pelaksanaan KKN Mandiri UNIB 91 ini sudah dilakukan secara berkala selama 5 minggu dan disebarluaskan melalui media sosial serta mengirimkan kepada masyarakat Kelurahan Tanjung Agung. Pelaksanaannya mulai dari persiapan hingga laporan mingguan yang dilaporkan setiap akhir pekan. Luaran yang dihasilkan dari program kerja yang diusulkan berupa masyarakat bisa paham protokol kesehatan penanganan Covid-19 serta bagaimana cara meningkatkan imunitas tubuh. Selain itu, akan ada produk berupa empat video, tiga leaflet dan tiga puluh bungkus jahe instan yang akan dibagikan ke warga Kelurahan Tanjung Agung Kota Bengkulu.EFFORTS TO CONTROL THE SPREAD OF THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (Covid-19) PLANE IN TANJUNG AGUNG SUB-DISTRICT, SUNGAI SERUT DISTRICT, BENGKULU CITY. Recently, the world community is being shaken by a virus that has been declared a world pandemic, namely the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Therefore, the proposed work program at the UNIB 91 Mandiri KKN focuses on helping the government to prevent wider spread. The method of implementing KKN Mandiri UNIB 91 is carried out regularly for 5 weeks and disseminated through social media and sending to the community of Tanjung Agung Village. The implementation starts from preparation to weekly reports which are reported every weekend. The output resulting from the proposed work program is that the public can understand the health protocol for handling Covid-19 and how to increase immunity. In addition, there will be products in the form of four videos, three leaflets and thirty packs of instant ginger which will be distributed to residents of Tanjung Agung Village, Bengkulu City.

scholarly journals Will novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic impact agriculture, food security and animal sectors?

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud F. Seleiman ◽  
Shaimaa Selim ◽  
Bushra Ahmed Alhammad ◽  
Basmah M. Alharbi ◽  
Fernando Cezar Juliatti
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
World Market ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Meat And Eggs ◽  
Great Danger ◽  
Agricultural Food

The whole world is in a great danger due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In December 2019, the outbreak of COVID-19 took place in Wuhan, China and then rapidly spread all over the world. The current study provides potential expectations for the adverse impact of (COVID-19). The global infection affected globe on agricultural level such as agriculture, food supplies and animal production sectors. Till today, 29th April 2020, there is no vaccine available for treating novel coronavirus, consequently, the outbreak resulted in closing borders and reducing production following social distancing measures. This short communication illustrates the possible implications and expected outcomes of the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) on agricultural, food security, integrated pest management (IPM), animal productivity; and it predicts, as well, the possible adverse impacts on the economy worldwide. Brazil has one of the most important tropical agriculture in the world, being a leader in soybean production in the world. This chain impacts others such as meat and eggs. The impact of COVID-19 will be positive, encouraging the country to consolidate its leadership in the world market, stimulating exports, the machinery, inputs and fertilizers market, as well as generating employment and income in the country.

scholarly journals DAMPAK PEMBERITAAN COVID19 DI MEDIA SOSIAL TERHADAP PERILAKU MASYARAKAT DI DUSUN KEMUNING KELURAHAN LIRBOYO KOTA KEDIRI

MEDIAKITA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fifi Listia Sari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The People ◽  
Community Behavior ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The Government ◽  
Healthy Organization ◽  
The Impact

Covid19 has been declared a pandemic by WHO (World Healthy Organization). Its rapid spread makes the government give orders for Work From Home and Study From Home. The number of activities carried out at home makes many people use social media with increasing duration. Covid19 coverage circulated was offered more than any other news. This makes the user experience a change of mindset to action and makes the writer interested in examining the impact of covid19 reporting on social media on community behavior in the Kemuning hamlet of Lirboyo, Kediri.To analyze these problems the writer uses a qualitative suppressor with descriptive analysis and uses social media theory as well as behavior theory. The purpose of this research is to describe the impact of covid19 reporting on social media on community behavior in the Kemuning sub-village of Lirboyo, Kediri. The main source of data from the results of interviews and also books and journals.Repeated news about covid19 and the enormous impact on change ranging from social and economic to make people aware that this virus is very dangerous. In addition, the community feels anxiety because of the increasing number of patients and other factors. Covid19 news is always updated. This behavior change appears in the yellow environment. In this case the community has a good mindset following the government's recommendations, starting from washing their hands after their activities outside the home, seen from many water boxes and hand washing soap in front of the house. Besides that, the people of the town of Kediri also wear masks when they are outside, even though they are not too far away. So in reporting covid19 on social media has positive and negative psychological and behavioral impacts.Keywords: the pandemic covid 19, social media, behavior

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