COVID-19: students’ media use, trust and optimism during the movement control order (MCO)
This study investigated how uncertainty and information seeking behavior on social media affected the students’ emotions during the implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO) in Malaysia. In the attempt to mitigate the rapidly increasing Covid-19 pandemic, the Malaysian government had impose...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/83397/1/83397_COVID-19_%20students%E2%80%99%20media%20use%2C%20trust%20and%20optimism_new.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/83397/ |
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| Summary: | This study investigated how uncertainty and information seeking behavior on social media affected the students’ emotions during the implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO) in Malaysia. In the attempt to mitigate the rapidly increasing Covid-19 pandemic, the Malaysian government had imposed the MCO on March 17th, 2020. The month-long quarantine resulted in university students being confined in their own dormitory without much access to the world outside. Uncertainty, especially at the start of the MCO created information seeking behaviors that were mostly done on the social media. Using an online survey on 360 students from the International Islamic University Malaysia, this study found that the students’ emotions during the MCO were affected by the information they were accessing. |
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