Public Perception of Information about Covid 19 on social media Instagram: An Netnography Study of Visual Information

Information about Covid-19 circulating in the community has a crucial role in addressing this pandemic. The information about Covid 19 that was shared turned out to being great interest to the public so that it has many followers and verified as a trusted account by Instagram. People voluntarily fol...

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Autores principales: Lathifah Af’idatul, Tiani Riris, Mazida Fadhila
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c41261a857d24536b024782243da9d292021-11-08T15:19:57ZPublic Perception of Information about Covid 19 on social media Instagram: An Netnography Study of Visual Information2267-124210.1051/e3sconf/202131705015https://doaj.org/article/c41261a857d24536b024782243da9d292021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2021/93/e3sconf_icenis2021_05015.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2267-1242Information about Covid-19 circulating in the community has a crucial role in addressing this pandemic. The information about Covid 19 that was shared turned out to being great interest to the public so that it has many followers and verified as a trusted account by Instagram. People voluntarily follow these accounts in order to access Covid 19 information. Thus, people who follow these accounts have the awareness and willingness to be informed. This is certainly interesting in the midst of high public distrust of Covid 19, it turns out that on the other hand the community also voluntarily accesses information about Covid 19. To conduct this researchs we used netnography approach with blended method, involved 200 respondents from online questionnaires and 20 informants of virtual interview, observing informants' online activities and also account activities that spread information about Covid 19. Informations on Instagram account are considered more interesting, easier to check and more updates. 82% of respondents are interested in following information on the number of positive suspects every day. This interest can also be seen from the number of comments on related posts which are always the most. 84% of respondents admitted to spreading the information back to their families, but this information did not appear on the informants' social media accounts. Even though they always follow Covid 19 information, only 10% of respondents said they were afraid of this information.Lathifah Af’idatulTiani RirisMazida FadhilaEDP SciencesarticleEnvironmental sciencesGE1-350ENFRE3S Web of Conferences, Vol 317, p 05015 (2021)
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Lathifah Af’idatul
Tiani Riris
Mazida Fadhila
Public Perception of Information about Covid 19 on social media Instagram: An Netnography Study of Visual Information
description Information about Covid-19 circulating in the community has a crucial role in addressing this pandemic. The information about Covid 19 that was shared turned out to being great interest to the public so that it has many followers and verified as a trusted account by Instagram. People voluntarily follow these accounts in order to access Covid 19 information. Thus, people who follow these accounts have the awareness and willingness to be informed. This is certainly interesting in the midst of high public distrust of Covid 19, it turns out that on the other hand the community also voluntarily accesses information about Covid 19. To conduct this researchs we used netnography approach with blended method, involved 200 respondents from online questionnaires and 20 informants of virtual interview, observing informants' online activities and also account activities that spread information about Covid 19. Informations on Instagram account are considered more interesting, easier to check and more updates. 82% of respondents are interested in following information on the number of positive suspects every day. This interest can also be seen from the number of comments on related posts which are always the most. 84% of respondents admitted to spreading the information back to their families, but this information did not appear on the informants' social media accounts. Even though they always follow Covid 19 information, only 10% of respondents said they were afraid of this information.
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author Lathifah Af’idatul
Tiani Riris
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title Public Perception of Information about Covid 19 on social media Instagram: An Netnography Study of Visual Information
title_short Public Perception of Information about Covid 19 on social media Instagram: An Netnography Study of Visual Information
title_full Public Perception of Information about Covid 19 on social media Instagram: An Netnography Study of Visual Information
title_fullStr Public Perception of Information about Covid 19 on social media Instagram: An Netnography Study of Visual Information
title_full_unstemmed Public Perception of Information about Covid 19 on social media Instagram: An Netnography Study of Visual Information
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