Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1177/09732586231191027
Emiliano Bosio
This study investigates how eight higher education (HE) faculties located in Japan perceive and implement Global Citizenship Education (GCE) as a critically oriented pedagogy in the online course ‘Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education’. The main instruments of the study were questionnaires and interviews. The data collected were scrutinised with the use of the grounded theory and constant comparative method. Four notions of GCE surfaced from the data. According to the HE faculty, a critically oriented GCE should: (a) develop students’ empathetic identification, (b) cultivate students’ critical agency, (c) foster students’ self-confidence and inclusive mindset and (d) encourage students’ community participation. Building on the findings, this article concludes by advancing a proposal for a critical pedagogical framework for GCE online teaching and learning in Japanese HE.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1177/09732586231189837
Yusef Waghid
Global citizenship education (GCE) has been in vogue for the last decade. The term has been used mostly to espouse and rearticulate some of the democratic, responsible and activist aspirations linked to forms of transformative higher education (HE) in the world today. Southern African HE is no exception, particularly invoking some of the (post)critical and decolonial virtues within matrices of HE for change. In this article, it is described how reflections on a massive open online course brought to the fore several poignant moments in the pursuit of cultivating a (post)critical and decolonial notion of GCE. Such reflections focused on enacting an African philosophy of HE, particularly showing how, first, ukama (iterative action) can be used to engage humans in perspicuous and deliberative ways; second, ubuntu (critical and dissonant action) is drawn upon to show how agreement and dissent about educational and societal matters can be resolved; and third, the notion of umsibenzi (activism) is couched in moderate terms to emphasise the potentiality and impotentiality of action that could subvert societal dystopias on the African continent and elsewhere. In this way, the cultivation of an African philosophy of HE could broaden the notion of a (post)critical and decolonial understanding of GCE.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-23DOI: 10.1177/09732586231195241
Evelyn Krisnada Linardi, Hui-Fei Lin, Benjamin Yeo
We investigate consumers’ attitudes and behaviours when receiving customised website advertising, the effect of their psychological beings and content of advertising messages, using a 2 (customisation: customised vs non-customised) × 2 (product attributes: utilitarian vs hedonic) × 2 (self-esteem: high vs low) experiment on 240 participants, aged 16–34 living in Taiwan, to explain their effects on advertising effectiveness and the mediating role of advertising value. High self-esteem consumers have a more favourable attitude and behaviour when receiving a customised ad. For low self-esteem consumers, the customised ad effectively influences purchase intention. In the non-customised advertising condition, a hedonic product attribute fosters greater purchase intention. High self-esteem consumers have a stronger purchase intention when receiving the hedonic product attribute in the non-customised ad condition. Furthermore, customisation influences attitude and purchase intention.
{"title":"Effective Digital Advertising: The Influence of Customised Ads, Self-esteem and Product Attributes","authors":"Evelyn Krisnada Linardi, Hui-Fei Lin, Benjamin Yeo","doi":"10.1177/09732586231195241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09732586231195241","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate consumers’ attitudes and behaviours when receiving customised website advertising, the effect of their psychological beings and content of advertising messages, using a 2 (customisation: customised vs non-customised) × 2 (product attributes: utilitarian vs hedonic) × 2 (self-esteem: high vs low) experiment on 240 participants, aged 16–34 living in Taiwan, to explain their effects on advertising effectiveness and the mediating role of advertising value. High self-esteem consumers have a more favourable attitude and behaviour when receiving a customised ad. For low self-esteem consumers, the customised ad effectively influences purchase intention. In the non-customised advertising condition, a hedonic product attribute fosters greater purchase intention. High self-esteem consumers have a stronger purchase intention when receiving the hedonic product attribute in the non-customised ad condition. Furthermore, customisation influences attitude and purchase intention.","PeriodicalId":43888,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135958986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1177/09732586231194438
Zayd Waghid
There is a paucity of research on the efficacy of online asynchronous discussion forums in fostering critical thinking, social justice awareness and empathy in pre-service teachers. This study adopted a case study design rooted in the social constructivist/interpretive paradigm. South African university pre-service teachers comprised the study’s sample. To examine how online discussions about Global Citizenship Education (GCE) affected the critical thinking and social justice awareness of a group of pre-service teachers ( n = 31), a questionnaire based on Andreotti’s (2006) Soft vs Critical GCE framework was used. To further understand how their involvement in online discussions on global issues influenced their sense of social justice awareness, empathy and critical thinking, certain pre-service teachers’ ( n = 9) reflective essays were used. The findings revealed that pre-service teachers’ responses were more consistent with the soft GCE approach. The Soft vs Critical GCE framework was useful for identifying which aspects of online interactions require a more critical understanding of GCE. The findings showed that pre-service teachers who participated in the online GCE conversations had increased social justice awareness, critical thinking skills and empathy.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1177/09732586231164485
José A. Flecha Ortiz, Rolando Rivera Guevarez, Maria A. Santos Corrada, Maribel Ortiz
Advertising no longer describes objects but can impose on Society the obligation to consume whatever is produced. In this way, political advertising has become more commercial, bringing new ways of doing politics where advertising strategies achieve an adapted policy. New advertising strategies have turned the political process into a spectacle encouraging new political behaviour. Through the Society of the Spectacle and the Visual Frame, this quantitative study analysed how advertising uses the physical image of a political candidate as the merchandise that voters acquire as a force of social relationships. In addition, this study is novel in exploring the role of political ideology as a moderating variable that may dampen the effects between image advertising and voting intention. With 582 participants in an electronic survey analysed through PLS-SEM, the study reflects that, during the spectacle process, the political candidate can generate relationships, value and satisfaction through their physical attributes. It enables a purchase through the vote since, once the perception is manifested, the frame is accepted, leading the voter to make non-objective decisions. This research contributes new knowledge to the Spectacle Society and Visual Frame theory by providing a new way of analyzing political candidates and how advertising activates political behaviour.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-20DOI: 10.1177/09732586231182471
A. Ahmed
Sharing news over social media (SM) has become an everyday practice among internet users all over the world. Despite the potential importance of news-sharing, little is known about this phenomenon in the Arab region. The news-sharing literature and Uses and Gratifications approach form the theoretical framework of the current research which examines the tendency of news-sharing on SM and its motivations among Emiratis and Arabs residents in the United Arab Emirates. It also explores the correlation between motivation and topics shared on SM. It investigates the difference in news-sharing and motivational factors among the demographic groups, mainly gender, age, nationality and level of education. A convenient sample of 324 respondents filled an online constructed questionnaire. Factor analysis revealed four motivational factors that stimulate respondents to share news through SM. A positive significant correlation between news-sharing and both ‘status-seeking’ and ‘social responsibility’ was found. The correlation was non-significant between news-sharing and both ‘socialising’ and ‘dissemination of information’. These factors significantly correlate positively with the type of topics that the Arab respondents share on SM. There is no significant difference between males and females in the news-sharing motivational factors except in the category of ‘socialising’, which is higher in the mean value among females than males. Emiratis have higher mean values in all news-sharing motivations as compared to Arab expats.
{"title":"Why Do Arabs Share News Online? Motivations for Sharing News on Social Media in the Emirates","authors":"A. Ahmed","doi":"10.1177/09732586231182471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09732586231182471","url":null,"abstract":"Sharing news over social media (SM) has become an everyday practice among internet users all over the world. Despite the potential importance of news-sharing, little is known about this phenomenon in the Arab region. The news-sharing literature and Uses and Gratifications approach form the theoretical framework of the current research which examines the tendency of news-sharing on SM and its motivations among Emiratis and Arabs residents in the United Arab Emirates. It also explores the correlation between motivation and topics shared on SM. It investigates the difference in news-sharing and motivational factors among the demographic groups, mainly gender, age, nationality and level of education. A convenient sample of 324 respondents filled an online constructed questionnaire. Factor analysis revealed four motivational factors that stimulate respondents to share news through SM. A positive significant correlation between news-sharing and both ‘status-seeking’ and ‘social responsibility’ was found. The correlation was non-significant between news-sharing and both ‘socialising’ and ‘dissemination of information’. These factors significantly correlate positively with the type of topics that the Arab respondents share on SM. There is no significant difference between males and females in the news-sharing motivational factors except in the category of ‘socialising’, which is higher in the mean value among females than males. Emiratis have higher mean values in all news-sharing motivations as compared to Arab expats.","PeriodicalId":43888,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49418128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/09732586231166115
Woohyun Yoo, Sang-Hwa Oh, Taemin Kim
Given the vast amount of possibly relevant information that circulates on social media during epidemics, it is imperative to examine how exposure to such information influences preventive practices. Using a communication mediation framework, this research investigates the underlying mechanisms of how exposure to COVID-19 information on social media affects the willingness to conduct COVID-19 preventive measures in South Korea. A structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis of survey data from 1,209 Korean adults showed that social media exposure indirectly influenced the intention to take preventive actions through interpersonal communication, social media expression and knowledge. The findings also revealed that social media exposure exerted differential effects on the intention to adopt preventive measures depending on the types of reasoning, including interpersonal communication and social media expression. The findings provide important implications for health communication.
{"title":"The Effect of Social Media on Preventive Behavioural Intention During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediating Roles of Interpersonal Communication, Social Media Expression and Knowledge","authors":"Woohyun Yoo, Sang-Hwa Oh, Taemin Kim","doi":"10.1177/09732586231166115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09732586231166115","url":null,"abstract":"Given the vast amount of possibly relevant information that circulates on social media during epidemics, it is imperative to examine how exposure to such information influences preventive practices. Using a communication mediation framework, this research investigates the underlying mechanisms of how exposure to COVID-19 information on social media affects the willingness to conduct COVID-19 preventive measures in South Korea. A structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis of survey data from 1,209 Korean adults showed that social media exposure indirectly influenced the intention to take preventive actions through interpersonal communication, social media expression and knowledge. The findings also revealed that social media exposure exerted differential effects on the intention to adopt preventive measures depending on the types of reasoning, including interpersonal communication and social media expression. The findings provide important implications for health communication.","PeriodicalId":43888,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47760698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/09732586231172045
William Kinnally, P. Kohl, S. Collins, M. Eichholz, Chelsea Schafer
This study used a nationally representative survey of U.S. residents (N = 1,969) to examine whether attention to information about COVID-19 in traditional news media sources and on social media correlated with a higher perceived risk of personal and public harm. As anticipated, we found a positive association between attention to COVID-19 information in traditional news media sources and the perceived risks of COVID-19. We also found a positive association between attention to COVID-19 social media posts and perceived risks but only among Republicans. Other predictors of increased risk perception included age, being female and awareness of a local stay-at-home order.
{"title":"COVID-19: Examining the Roles of Traditional and Social Media Attention in the Amplification of Risk","authors":"William Kinnally, P. Kohl, S. Collins, M. Eichholz, Chelsea Schafer","doi":"10.1177/09732586231172045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09732586231172045","url":null,"abstract":"This study used a nationally representative survey of U.S. residents (N = 1,969) to examine whether attention to information about COVID-19 in traditional news media sources and on social media correlated with a higher perceived risk of personal and public harm. As anticipated, we found a positive association between attention to COVID-19 information in traditional news media sources and the perceived risks of COVID-19. We also found a positive association between attention to COVID-19 social media posts and perceived risks but only among Republicans. Other predictors of increased risk perception included age, being female and awareness of a local stay-at-home order.","PeriodicalId":43888,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45840138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/09732586231170056
Poorna Fernando, R. Ranwala, I. K. R. Ashoranga, M. D. de Silva, Sonali A. Lunuwila
With the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccination, there was a rise in anti-vaccine narratives leading to vaccine hesitancy. Social media platforms like Facebook have introduced policies to control the spread of these narratives. However, the comments section is frequently ignored. A preliminary anti-vaccination codebook was created using criteria identified in international literature and completed using the comments on the Health Promotion Bureau (HPB)’s Facebook page, which is the centre for health education and publicity of health information in Sri Lanka. Next, the most commented vaccine-related posts for each quarter were extracted from the HPB Facebook page and the comments were coded according to the finalised codebook and were analysed. The finalised codebook contained a total of 24 codes that were organised into six primary categories. A total of 7,316 comments were extracted. The comments that were against vaccination constituted 47.3% of all vaccine-related comments. The most commonly occurring code was ‘health hazards’. It was evident that the number of comments against vaccination has increased with time. This may indicate that anti-vaccination movements are becoming more prevalent in. It is essential to engage in extensive social listening in order to forestall the propagation of anti-vaccine sentiments and conspiracy theories.
{"title":"Analysis of the Engagement with COVID-19 Vaccination-Related Posts in Sri Lankan Health-Oriented Social Media: A Social Listening Approach","authors":"Poorna Fernando, R. Ranwala, I. K. R. Ashoranga, M. D. de Silva, Sonali A. Lunuwila","doi":"10.1177/09732586231170056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09732586231170056","url":null,"abstract":"With the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccination, there was a rise in anti-vaccine narratives leading to vaccine hesitancy. Social media platforms like Facebook have introduced policies to control the spread of these narratives. However, the comments section is frequently ignored. A preliminary anti-vaccination codebook was created using criteria identified in international literature and completed using the comments on the Health Promotion Bureau (HPB)’s Facebook page, which is the centre for health education and publicity of health information in Sri Lanka. Next, the most commented vaccine-related posts for each quarter were extracted from the HPB Facebook page and the comments were coded according to the finalised codebook and were analysed. The finalised codebook contained a total of 24 codes that were organised into six primary categories. A total of 7,316 comments were extracted. The comments that were against vaccination constituted 47.3% of all vaccine-related comments. The most commonly occurring code was ‘health hazards’. It was evident that the number of comments against vaccination has increased with time. This may indicate that anti-vaccination movements are becoming more prevalent in. It is essential to engage in extensive social listening in order to forestall the propagation of anti-vaccine sentiments and conspiracy theories.","PeriodicalId":43888,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43903094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/09732586231173129
Yangsun Hong, Rajat Roy
The COVID-19 pandemic presents many challenges for public communication, including widespread misinformation and political polarisation of SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 vaccine. However, public communication has played a vital role in addressing the challenges (Mani et al., In press; Paek & Hove, 2021; Torres et al., 2021). Since the health emergency was declared, fake news, conspiracy theories and misleading information have been broadly circulated. In the current digital environment, misinformation spreads quickly and widely at unprecedented levels. COVID-19 misinformation has caused mistrust in governmental and health authorities, resulting in undesirable health outcomes such as rejection of preventive measures and vaccine hesitancy. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) have declared the widespread dissemination of COVID-19 misinformation an ‘infodemic’. This is not a new phenomenon; Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation about health, risk, science and environmental issues persisted in mediated and interpersonal communication channels. The current special issue provides insights into the phenomenon of misinformation based on evidence from around the world and discusses potential communication strategies to reduce the spread of misinformation and to combat its effects. The first article, titled ‘COVID-19: Examining the Roles of Traditional and Social Media Attention in the Amplification of Risk’ by Kinnally, examines attention to media channels as a source of COVID-19 news and perceived risk of COVID-19 in the United States. Using a nationally representative sample, the study finds that attention to traditional news media was positively associated with perceived risk, while attention to social media as a news source was not associated with risk perception. The study demonstrates that the relationship between attention to social media for COVID-19 information and perceived risk was contingent on one’s political party affiliation, which presents implications regarding political polarisation of COVID-19 information and social media misinformation. Potential communication research avenues around misinformation are offered in the article titled ‘Bibliometric
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