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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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Main Authors: Mohamed, Shafizan, Mohd Nasir, Nur Shakira, Wan Mohd Ghazali, Wan Norshira
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2020
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HM Sociology
HM1106 Interpersonal relations. Social behavior
LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa)
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spelling my.iium.irep.833972020-11-13T02:14:53Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/83397/ COVID-19: students’ media use, trust and optimism during the movement control order (MCO) Mohamed, Shafizan Mohd Nasir, Nur Shakira Wan Mohd Ghazali, Wan Norshira HM Sociology HM1106 Interpersonal relations. Social behavior LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa) 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. 2020-09-03 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/83397/1/83397_COVID-19_%20students%E2%80%99%20media%20use%2C%20trust%20and%20optimism_new.pdf Mohamed, Shafizan and Mohd Nasir, Nur Shakira and Wan Mohd Ghazali, Wan Norshira (2020) COVID-19: students’ media use, trust and optimism during the movement control order (MCO). In: Communication Research Webinar (CORENA 2020), 3rd September 2020, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)
institution Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia
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topic HM Sociology
HM1106 Interpersonal relations. Social behavior
LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa)
spellingShingle HM Sociology
HM1106 Interpersonal relations. Social behavior
LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa)
Mohamed, Shafizan
Mohd Nasir, Nur Shakira
Wan Mohd Ghazali, Wan Norshira
COVID-19: students’ media use, trust and optimism during the movement control order (MCO)
description 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.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Mohamed, Shafizan
Mohd Nasir, Nur Shakira
Wan Mohd Ghazali, Wan Norshira
author_facet Mohamed, Shafizan
Mohd Nasir, Nur Shakira
Wan Mohd Ghazali, Wan Norshira
author_sort Mohamed, Shafizan
title COVID-19: students’ media use, trust and optimism during the movement control order (MCO)
title_short COVID-19: students’ media use, trust and optimism during the movement control order (MCO)
title_full COVID-19: students’ media use, trust and optimism during the movement control order (MCO)
title_fullStr COVID-19: students’ media use, trust and optimism during the movement control order (MCO)
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19: students’ media use, trust and optimism during the movement control order (MCO)
title_sort covid-19: students’ media use, trust and optimism during the movement control order (mco)
publishDate 2020
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/83397/1/83397_COVID-19_%20students%E2%80%99%20media%20use%2C%20trust%20and%20optimism_new.pdf
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