Research on the Impact of New Media on COVID-19

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220401.199How to use a DOI?

Keywords

New media; pandemic; rumor; spread; coronavirus

Abstract

As a new generation of media technology, new media is an important way for the public to obtain information about the coronavirus. However, as the development of new media is getting better and better, the information of new media is mixed, and the authenticity is difficult to distinguish, which undoubtedly brings greater resistance to the pandemic prevention work. This paper is to explore how the new media has a positive impact on the pandemic and how it has a negative impact on the pandemic. In addition, this paper also discusses what new media will look like in the future. This research depends on searching the internet for news reported by journalists from different countries. The task of preventing and controlling this major pandemic is urgent and arduous. The professionalism and ability of media practitioners, the quality of public information, and government information management and control are all facing challenges. The result of this paper is although new media help to spread the information about pandemic on the internet and help people to make good prevention in advance, there are also some people spreading rumors about pandemic all over the internet.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ling Xiong
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/08
TI  - Research on the Impact of New Media on COVID-19
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1041
EP  - 1044
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220401.199
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220401.199
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