scholarly journals IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE FACE OF GLOBALIZATION: PAKISTAN’S PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Muhammad Asim, Hashmat Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Mobile Broadband ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Face ◽  
Illegal Acts ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Roll Out

Internet usage in Pakistan has been growing exponentially in terms of access, subscriptions and roll-out-of-content and services coupled with the recent mobile broadband innovations. Facebook is considered the most popular social platform, with Google the second followed by Twitter and Instagram (Yusufzai, 2016). In Pakistan over 30 million people are registered internet users out of which, 15 million get access to internet through cellular devices. Over 155,000 Pakistanis have Twitter accounts, whereas the number of Facebook users is considerably higher at 15 million. Social media has been gaining vast popularity among the masses. Cheap mobile broadband coupled with inexpensive smart phones is adding to this number rapidly. People are inclined towards social media to easy and cheap way to spread their opinions, share experiences, offer suggestions and give feedback on topics of common interest. It has led to a massive rise in both positive and negative activities. The Government of Pakistan has certainly taken into account this issue and has taken some meaningful steps and hopes to do more in this sector to curb the unlawful and illegal acts and get a control over it.

scholarly journals Zarządzanie mediami społecznościowymi w kontekście realizacji projektów społecznych skierowanych przeciw mowie nienawiści na przykładzie projektu Grażyna Żarko. Katolicki głos w Internecie

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Anna Lusińska
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Common ◽  
Research Questions

Social media management in the context of social projects against hate speech on the example of the project Grażyna Żarko. Catholic voice on the Internet Argument/objective: In view of the growing negative phenomenon of hate speech in the social media, targeted informational and educational activities in the public sphere seem important and necessary, for the common good and in the common interest, as a reminder of respect for the other person and respect for his or her rights. The aim of the article is to identify and analyse the selected project in terms of the occurrence, spread and scale of the hate speech phenomenon in social media and to try to evaluate this type of communication. Research methods, research questions: The text uses methods such as case study, desk research and media content analysis. The following research questions were posed: how does the broadly understood civil society, and in principle its representatives, try to oppose hate speech? For what purpose are social projects against hate speech created and implemented? Do social projects against hate speech show the scale of this phenomenon, its horror and immorality? What image of Poles, including Polish Internet users (and in the case of a selected YouTube project) emerges from them? and how do they exchange views on the subject and what conclusions do they draw from this? Results and conclusions: Research has shown that when modern society, which is largely civic, starts to rebel against injustice, lack of respect for others, or socially unacceptable behaviour, including hate speech, it reaches for tools of opposition, among others. Projects such as these are born in this way: Incubator of Ideas, #StopMowieNienawiści, or the title one, analysed: Grażyna Żarko. Catholic Voice on the Internet. This non-commercial, over two months long project, and at the same time a media, Internet provocation carried out in the form of a Polish vlog, showed not only the enormous scale of the problem of “verbal violence”of Polish Internet users on the example of YouTube, but also the lack of preventive actions and responsibility, or rather criminal consequences, for example, incurred for this type of conduct. Cognitive value: The article is part of the discussion on the way and quality of communication of Polish society, with particular emphasis on hate speech, through new media.

scholarly journals Micro-celebrity participation and risk communication in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-71
Author(s):  
Lidwina Mutia Sadasri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Massive Number ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
National Disaster

Information dissemination in the media, specifically social media, is one of the critical channels of information related to the COVID-19 outbreak sought by the public. The information presented has been related to accurate and reliable situation reports and false information in various forms, not only text-based but also audio and visual. The chaos of data, coupled with a central response that seemed unprepared, shaped the Indonesian community’s perceptions of the COVID-19 outbreak. This fact related to the massive number of internet users in Indonesia is one aspect of the government’s decision, in this case BNPB (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana; officially National Disaster Management Authority), to engage strong social media influencers. The government collaborated with some influencers to enable public engagement through online social media platforms in the context of COVID-19—two of them being @dr.tirta and @rachelvennya. The platforms also gained more visibility after being appointed COVID-19 influencers. They updated information about COVID-19 on their social media accounts with picture posts and Instagram stories, either individually or in collaboration with others. This study aims to analyse the practice of the Indonesian government’s agency using micro-celebrity to deploy a risk communication frame and the delivery of the message by a celebrated person.

scholarly journals Assigning Responsibility for Preventing the Spread of Misinformation Online: Some Findings on Gender Differences

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 195-201
Author(s):  
Moncef Belhadjali ◽  
Gary Whaley ◽  
Sami Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Additional Control ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Major Attention

“Fake News” gained major attention throughout all types of media such as print media, broadcast news, and the Internet. This paper utilizes data from a survey of Internet users to compare the perceptions of females and males of the responsibility in preventing the spread of fake news. Those held responsible for taking additional control include public, government, and social media sites. Most respondents (91%) think that made up news stories hinder Americans. Also, most Americans agree that all three players should be more responsible -public (76%), government (73%), networking sites (76%). The results of a regression analysis followed by a t-test revealed that there is no statistically significant gender difference among the means. However, females are more likely to attribute the primary responsibility to the social media sites, when males are more likely to perceive the government as the primary responsible.

scholarly journals Nobody Cares, Lah!" The Phenomenon of Flaming on YouTube in Malaysia

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Revathy Amadera Lingam ◽  
Norizah Aripin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Practical Issue ◽  
Video Classification ◽  
Internet Users

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to investigate what motivates people to provide malicious comments on YouTube in Malaysia. This study will also question the differences between how flaming is constructed in each video classification and how are flaming comments categorized. Methodology: This study uses qualitative methods. Literature review has been summarized to contextualize the research problem. Findings: The paper offers rich theoretical insights to understand the practical issue of ridiculous comments by internet users on YouTube. Implications: Flaming or making ridiculous comments on social media has been a serious issue in Malaysia and other countries with high internet usage. Findings of the study will help understand the views of YouTube community in Malaysia on flaming. The study may further help understand the issue of flaming on other social media sites.

The Transformative Power of Social Media on Emergency and Crisis Management

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon F. For-mukwai
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Emergency Managers ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Masses

There is a wind of transformation blowing across the world today. It is changing the face of emergency management and every field of human endeavor. It is called “social media”. These days, social media is redefining crisis preparedness through the increasing participation of the masses in the creation and distribution of content in ways that surpass the capacity of the mass media and public authorities. Public-generated content has been found to be useful in all phases of preparedness. Unfortunately, most public safety authorities are still suspicious of using social media in engaging and disseminating information. This article examines this new area of transformation that is having significant consequences on public safety and public life. As the scenario unfolds, emergency managers have a tough time choosing between the mass media and social media. Metaphorically, it is a race between a ‘hippo’ (mass media) and cheetah (social media).

Sentiment Analysis of the Indonesian Health Ministry Performance in Covid-19 Crisis using Support Vector Machine (SVM)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Fathiyarizq Mahendra Putra ◽  
I Wayan Santiyasa
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Recall Rate ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Government

Corona Virus Disease or COVID 19 is a new virus disease that originated in 2019 [6], Indonesia has reported first COVID-19 In 2nd March 2020. Various attempts have been made by the government, such as taking strict measures by temporal lockdown or cordoning off the areas that were suspected of having risks of community spread. As a source of information, the internet has changed substantially,. for example, social media. social media is a communication tool that is very popular among internet users today, From social media, users can update status, send messages, even, become a platform for exchanging socio-economic opinions and political views both in their place of residence or their country. This paper deals with the sentiment analysis of Indonesian after the peformance of Indonesian Ministry Of Health. We used the social media platform Twitter for our analysis. Tweets were studied to gauge the opinion of Indonesian towards peformance of Indonesian Ministry Of Health. Tweets were extracted using the two prominent keywords used namely: “terawan ”and “menkes” from June 15th to September 19th 2020. A total of 200 tweets were considered for the analysis. This study has successfully implemented the SVM algorithm for sentiment analysis on tweet data about peformance of Indonesian Ministry Of Health during COVID-19 Crisis. This is shown by the accuracy of using tweet data as much as 200 data, which is 172 data are training data and 28 are testing data. Besides the amount of data that affects accuracy, there are also other factors, namely the use of the kernel and the number of classes used. The results show that the Linear Kernel has the best accuracy, precision and recall rate compared to other kernels, respectively 75% for accuracy, 78.4% for precision and a recall value of 75%. for polynomial kernels, Gaussian and Sigmoid have the same accuracy, precision, and recall rates, namely, respectively. 60.71% for accuracy, 36.86% for precision and 60.71% recall value.

The Transformative Power of Social Media on Emergency and Crisis Management

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon F. For-mukwai
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Emergency Managers ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Masses

There is a wind of transformation blowing across the world today. It is changing the face of emergency management and every field of human endeavor. It is called “social media”. These days, social media is redefining crisis preparedness through the increasing participation of the masses in the creation and distribution of content in ways that surpass the capacity of the mass media and public authorities. Public-generated content has been found to be useful in all phases of preparedness. Unfortunately, most public safety authorities are still suspicious of using social media in engaging and disseminating information. This paper examines this new area of transformation that is having significant consequences on public safety and public life. As the scenario unfolds, emergency managers have a tough time choosing between the mass media and social media. Metaphorically, it is a race between a ‘hippo’ (mass media) and cheetah (social media).

scholarly journals Disrupting State Spaces: Asylum Seekers in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Rachel Sharples
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
State Spaces ◽  
Detention Centre ◽  
National Space ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
The Face ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
The Government ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The Australian government has spent over a billion dollars a year on managing offshore detention (Budget 2018–2019). Central to this offshore management was the transference and mandatory detention of asylum seekers in facilities that sit outside Australia’s national sovereignty, in particular on Manus Island (Papua New Guinea) and Nauru. As a state-sanctioned spatial aberration meant to deter asylum seekers arriving by boat, offshore detention has resulted in a raft of legal and policy actions that are reshaping the modern state-centric understanding of the national space. It has raised questions of sovereignty, of moral, ethical and legal obligations, of national security and humanitarian responsibilities, and of nationalism and belonging. Using a sample of Twitter users on Manus during the closure of the Manus Island detention centre in October–November 2017, this paper examines how asylum seekers and refugees have negotiated and defined the offshore detention space and how through the use of social media they have created a profound disruption to the state discourse on offshore detention. The research is based on the premise that asylum seekers’ use social media in a number of disruptive ways, including normalising the presence of asylum seekers in the larger global phenomena of migration, humanising asylum seekers in the face of global discourses of dehumanisation, ensuring visibility by confirming the conditions of detention, highlighting Australia’s human rights violations and obligations, and challenging the government discourse on asylum seekers and offshore detention. Social media is both a tool and a vehicle by which asylum seekers on Manus Island could effect that disruption.

scholarly journals Emergency Response and Risk Communication Effects of Local Media during COVID-19 Pandemic in China: A Study Based on a Social Media Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10942
Author(s):  
Lei Jiang ◽  
Yujia Huang ◽  
Haonan Cheng ◽  
Ting Zhang ◽  
Lei Huang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Communication Effects ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Prevention And Control Measures ◽  
The Masses ◽  
And Control

As the country where the COVID-19 was first reported and initially broke out, China has controlled the spread of the pandemic well. The pandemic prevention process included emergency response and risk communication, both of which could notably increase public participation, people’s anxiety has been alleviated, their confidence in the government has been enhanced, and the implementation of prevention and control measures has been understood. This study selected 157,283 articles published by 447 accounts across 326 cities in February 2020 from WeChat, the largest social media application in China, to systematically compare the spatial distributions in the effectiveness of emergency responses and risk communication. The results showed that there were significant regional differences in the effectiveness of emergency response and risk communication during the pandemic period in China. The effectiveness of emergency response and risk communication are related to the exposure risk to the COVID-19, the level of economy, culture, and education of the region, the type of accounts and articles, and the ranking of the articles in posts. The timeliness and distribution types of articles should take into account the psychological changes in communication recipients to avoid the dissemination of homogenized information to the masses and the resulting information receiving fatigue period.

Internet Usage in India

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
P. Murugiah
Keyword(s):  
Development Program ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
United Nations Development Program ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Institutes Of Technology ◽  
The Government ◽  
Indian Institute Of Science ◽  
Nations Development

The ERNET network was only made available to educational and research communities. ERNET was initiated by the Department of Electronics (DoE), with funding support from the Government of India and United Nations Development Program (UNDP), involving eight premier institutions as participating agencies—NCST Bombay; Indian Institute of Science; five Indian Institutes of Technology at Delhi, Mumbai, Kanpur, Kharagpur, and Chennai; and the DoE in New Delhi. It is estimated that by 2017, internet users in India are most likely to be in a range of 450-465 million. The frequency of internet access among urban internet users in India is close to 51% or 137.19 million of internet users are using internet on a daily basis (at least once a day). On the other hand, 242 million or 90% of the urban internet user's use internet once a month. Analysis of ‘daily users' reveals that they are both in urban and rural India.

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