Humanitarians on TikTok
5 Lessons on Combatting Misinformation During COVID-19.
Read more: https://medium.com/@UNmigration/humanitarians-on-tiktok-246651af74d
Hate Can’t Kill a Virus, Please Be Kind to Others
The coronavirus pandemic is definitely a bad thing. Sadly, people can make bad things even worse than they already are. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the coronavirus pandemic is unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering”[1]. He also provided several examples of how this pandemic is quickly becoming a “human rights crisis.”
Read more: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/get-psyched/202005/hate-cant-kill-virus-please-be-kind-others?fbclid=IwAR3EFC423So6P_h_Y8Vr_6ZK6dCx7fD_LVEXZ00MrB92w1zfsIjiSJLyhLk
Not Just Dance Moves: TikTok, Snapchat and other teen faves are essential spaces for social connection and self expression
TikTok isn’t only useful for practical health information—although doctors and nurses have been showing off some killer moves over the past few weeks, and reaching teenagers who might otherwise be missed by the UK government’s lacking communication strategy. It is also providing a sense of community, something that is more and more important as the possibility of lockdown looms longer, and digital spaces shift from being a secondary aspect of our social lives, to being a an essential space for maintaining social connections. For teenagers, this is particularly important.
Read more: https://www.media-diversity.org/not-just-dance-moves-tiktok-snapchat-and-other-teen-faves-are-essential-spaces-for-social-connection-and-self-expression/?fbclid=IwAR3MEiWXLHu2n8Lyj19EFtaD65cD9_PM5Yy9_6INr0rT8Y71Vp88ayYKGp0
Can Local News Survive COVID-19?
Everyone is clamoring for local news right now. They want to know who is sick, what businesses are open, and, most importantly, if there is space in the hospitals near them. However, local news has not felt this support in its revenue–rather, the opposite. In fact, it might be on the verge of extinction due to the economic fall out from the COVID-19 pandemic. What does this mean for the communities whose stories rarely make it to the national and international media?
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