{"id":64340,"date":"2020-03-02T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T13:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=64340"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:12","slug":"thongpapanl-coronavirus-how-twitter-could-more-effectively-ease-its-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/03\/thongpapanl-coronavirus-how-twitter-could-more-effectively-ease-its-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"THONGPAPANL: Coronavirus: How Twitter could more effectively ease its impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"fn author-name\">Narongsak (Tek) Thongpapanl, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies and Professor of Marketing and Product Innovation at Brock University, had a piece published in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/coronavirus-how-twitter-could-more-effectively-ease-its-impact-132422?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20March%202%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20March%202%202020+CID_3ff55aa09f73e49ccdce10cd8a960fe5&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Coronavirus%20How%20Twitter%20could%20more%20effectively%20ease%20its%20impact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> Sunday, March 1 about how Twitter could more effectively ease the impact of coronavirus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fn author-name\">Thongpapanl<\/span>\u00a0writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In the wake of a disaster or crisis, people turn to trusted sources for information.\u00a0In today\u2019s digitally connected world, those sources often take the form of social media platforms. These platforms allow for the rapid dissemination of information deemed vital in the midst of a disaster or crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019ve seen this most recently amid the spread of the coronavirus, as information about the outbreak floods social media feeds. That information is coming from both government sources as well as non-governmental organizations and private individuals, such was the case with many active Chinese social media users and online media outlets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our research contrasted the effectiveness of disaster-related information shared on Twitter by both public and private\u00a0organizations, including NGOs and aid agencies.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/coronavirus-how-twitter-could-more-effectively-ease-its-impact-132422?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20March%202%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20March%202%202020+CID_3ff55aa09f73e49ccdce10cd8a960fe5&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Coronavirus%20How%20Twitter%20could%20more%20effectively%20ease%20its%20impact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narongsak (Tek) Thongpapanl, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies and Professor of Marketing and Product Innovation at Brock University, had a piece published in The Conversation Sunday, March 1 about how Twitter could more effectively ease the impact of coronavirus.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,55,6,5],"tags":[5365,3029,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64341,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64340\/revisions\/64341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}