cord-008777-i2reanan 2005 cord-011906-ek7joi0m 2020 Given: (i) young adults are keen users of smartphone apps, with increased vulnerability to self-regulation and technology use [74] , (ii) the high stakes for academic achievement, and (iii) the similarity in processes observed between gambling addiction and social media overuse [115] , the strategies of mindfulness, activity monitoring, and mood tracking utilized in gambling harm-reduction [86, 116, 117] are employed in the present study. The present study tested the efficacy of a ten-day online app-delivered randomized controlled trial (RCT) based on cognitive-behavioural principles to reduce distraction (primary outcome) and a number of secondary psychological outcomes: self-awareness, mindful attention, FoMO, anxiety, and depression among university students. The present study tested the efficacy of an online intervention employing an integrative set of strategies-consisting of mindfulness, self-monitoring and mood tracking-in assisting young adults to decrease levels of smartphone distraction and improve on a variety of secondary psychological outcomes, such as mindful attention, emotional awareness, stress and anxiety, and perceived self-efficacy, as well as to reduce stress, anxiety, deficient self-regulation, problematic social media use and smartphone-related psychological outcomes (i.e., online vigilance, FoMO and NoMO). cord-014597-66vd2mdu 2018 Irrespective of the cell culture-based system and production scale, PEIpro® and PEIpro®-HQ have led to efficient viral vector yields superior to 10 7 IG/mL and 10 9 VG/mL, respectively for lentiviruses and AAVs Background Continuous perfusion process is making a comeback as a competing upstream manufacturing technology for the production of Biopharmaceuticals compared to the standard fed batch processes. To evaluate the impact of feed-spiking compared with cultivation in basal medium only, the cell line was grown in bioreactors under controlled conditions to determine cellspecific metabolic rates, nutrient consumption, and byproduct accumulation over the process time. Through the interchangeability of signal peptides between products and even species, a large variety can be used to enhance protein expression in already existing production systems Materials and methods At first the influence of four different natural SPs (SP (7), (8), (9) and (10)) was compared on the secreted amount of an IgG4 model antibody (product A) in fed batches using a CHO DG44 host cell line. cord-020197-z4ianbw8 2020 The purpose of this literature review is to identify why individuals tend to share false information and to possibly help in detecting fake news before it spreads. While conducting the literature review, 22 articles highlighted the social factors; 13 articles discussed the role that cognitive factors have in contributing to the sharing and spreading of fake news; 13 articles highlighted the role of political factors; nine articles discussed how financial gain could convince a social media users to spread false information and 13 articles debated malicious factors and the effect that malicious factors have on the sharing and spreading of false information. Social media platforms, like Facebook, came under fire in the 2016 US presidential election, when fake news stories from unchecked sources were spread among many users [10] . The goal of this literature review was only to identify the factors that drive the spreading of fake news on social media platforms and did not fully address the dilemma of combatting the sharing and spreading of false information. cord-024385-peakgsyp 2020 Answering calls for deeper consideration of the relationship between moral panics and emergent media systems, this exploratory article assesses the effects of social media – web-based venues that enable and encourage the production and exchange of user-generated content. Whether generating fear about social change, sharpening social distance, or offering new opportunities for vilifying outsiders, distorting communications, manipulating public opinion, and mobilizing embittered individuals, digital platforms and communications constitute significant targets, facilitators, and instruments of panic production. Beyond expanding the profile of moral entrepreneurs, the networked and digital configuration of social media can also be marshalled to distort information flows, promote 8 International Journal of Cultural Studies 00 (0) incendiary content, and channel user experience and engagement. Here, the digital surveillance and marketing infrastructures that underpin social media''s profitability permit computational modelling of user data, promising greater awareness of audiences and encouraging claims-making practices involving extensive narrowcasting; behavioural and psychometric profiling; and the production of predictive knowledge. cord-024569-d9opzb6m 2019 cord-024640-04goxwsx 2020 Now that it is impossible for social media companies to ignore the rising evidence of the central role of social media in inculcating conflict, they have defaulted to two key arguments in their defense: freedom of speech and the idea that the problem is limited to a fundamental misuse of their platforms. When you add on the way that social media companies sell audiences to advertisers by identifying key markers via user activity (friends, posts, clicks, likes, shares, etc.), you have the ability to manipulate both domestic and foreign audiences as never before. Given the evidence of the weaponization of social media and the particular lack of foreign citizens to have any right of redress against U.S. companies, 2 it is clear that unregulated and mostly unresponsive dominant media platforms are choosing not to fundamentally change their business model. However, if citizens and policymakers alike can be made aware of the critical role of U.S. social media companies in supporting information operations by foreign states, then change is more likely. cord-025856-gc7hdqis 2020 First, that there is a well-established model of contemporary political mobilisation that employs both new media and large data analysis that can and have been effectively applied to young people in electoral and non-electoral contexts. As such, it is complementary to a study of youth participation in the political processes of evolved democracies, such as Australia, and the internet-based technologies that afford them access. Based on a survey of young people (16-29) in the USA, UK and Australia, and drawn from online panels, they argued that social media was positively related to increase political participation and produce a good regression analysis in support of this claim. Overall, social movement citizenship, or everyday making, presents challenges to an outcome-focused democratic analysis due to a tendency towards adhocracy, paradoxical disconnection and rapid demobilisation by political participants following their "hit-and-run" engagement. The networked young citizen: social media political participation and civic engagement The networked young citizen: social media political participation and civic engagement cord-026579-k3w8h961 2020 I highlight three points related to democracy in this text, formulating the following central arguments: 1) Social media and, consequently, citizen engagement are becoming a significant filter that can potentially re-imagine the political, economic, and social worlds (outside of and beyond normative democracy), which increasingly bleed over to how we might develop and engage with ''democracy'' (Garrett 2019) ; to this end, the advent of ''fake news'' is a worthy subject to explore here because a functioning democracy, to a certain degree, is dependent on media/political literacy, critical engagement/participation, and the capacity to communicate, analyze, and disseminate nuanced perspectives, ideas, and information; I introduce a brief case study on the nefarious interpretation of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 (BBC News 2019) to underscore the tension points in normative democracy; 2) Capitalism, or neoliberalism, needs to be more fully exposed, interrogated, and confronted if ''normative, representative, hegemonic, electoral democracy'' is to be re-considered, re-imagined, and re-invented (Lydon 2017) ; the perpetuation of social inequalities lays bare the frailty of normative democratic institutions; 3) Covid-19 has exposed the fault lines and fissures of normative democracy, illustrating here the ''common sense'' ways that power imbalances are sustained, which leaves little room for social solidarity (Human Rights Watch 2020); I present here a small case study of the economic and labor dynamic in Quebec during the coronavirus. cord-029051-ib189vow 2020 The experimental results show that the FPSO algorithm not only has faster convergence rate than the other algorithms, and shorten the task completion time, reduce the platform''s perceived cost, improve the user''s load balance, and have a good application effect in the crowd sensing task assignment. Therefore, the main problem solved by the fuzzy inference PSO algorithm crowd sensing task assignment method is: how to perform task assignment for the multi-task of less user participants, which can ensure that the given number of tasks is completed in the shortest time, the perceived cost is the lowest, and user load balancing is optimal. For the problem of poor user load balance in mobile commerce, a fuzzy inference particle swarm crowd sensing task assignment method is proposed to improve the global search ability of the algorithm and avoid falling into local optimum. cord-031941-bxrjftnl 2020 Based on original research, the six articles in this Special Issue examine the relationship between digital language practices and critical awareness of language and digital media, and explore how insights in everyday practices and understandings of digital communication may inform language pedagogy in a digital age. New patterns of interpersonal and professional communication are in particular adopted by adolescents and young adults, who lead all age cohorts in the frequency of online communication, as repeatedly attested by media research on an international scale, and whose non-institutional practices of digital writing, composing, remixing and interacting are found to blur boundaries between institutional and vernacular literacies (e.g., Herring & Androutsopoulos, 2015 ; Iorio, 2016 ; Jones, Chik & Hafner, 2015 ) . Thus, the articles in this Special Issue suggest we need to think beyond an apparent divide between language and digital media in terms of communicative practice and metapragmatic awareness. cord-031964-khbzbjuu 2020 This article aims to answer to the following question: How can we classify methods and strategies used by the AKP government to capture the media in Turkey? Although the Dogan group started to decrease its share in the media sector and reduced the level of anti-government criticism, it faced a tacit threat through a continuing criminal case "on charges of ''establishing an organization for the purpose of criminal activity'', forging official documents and violating Turkey''s anti-smuggling law" (IPI 2016, July 8). After the Ergenekon case, in 2011, 36 journalists working for pro-Kurdish media outlets, namely the Dicle news agency and the daily Özgür Gündem, were arrested and journalists were charged with membership of KCK (Koma Civaken Kurdistan-Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union) and the PKK, within the framework of police operations that continued for 6 months and targeted administrative staff from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), then some academics, and then a large group of lawyers (cf. cord-034975-gud4dow5 2020 The analysis then focuses on synthetic media, first engaging with the capacity to create synthetic likenesses (deepfakes), then moving onto synthetic personalities (virtual influencers) and synthetic worlds (Extended Reality). Currently, the primary use of deepfakes is for synthetic pornography, as in transposing the faces of celebrities or former partners onto the bodies of performers in pornographic videos; however, there are clear threats coming from improvements in the technology itself, such as reducing the quantity of necessary input and increasing the quality of output, and from its pairing with other techniques, including big data-based precision targeting to identify those most susceptible to believing the synthetic content (Paul and Posard 2020) . Recent developments in today''s media also involve the creation of synthetic personalities, primarily as virtual influencers (VIs). An additional benefit of VIs is their independence from real-world context: for example, while coronavirus lockdowns issued by governments have significantly constrained opportunities (travel, public appearances etc.) for human influencers, virtual ones can continue regardless (Deighton 2020). cord-126250-r65q535f 2020 The dashboard merges together four methods: text mining, sentiment analysis, textual network analysis and latent topic models. The dashboard mixes four methods: text mining, sentiment analysis, textual network analysis and latent topic models. Figure 2 shows the dashboard''s flowchart: (1) Content extraction and corpus pre-processing; (2) Sentiment analysis and descriptive study of texts: most frequent words and co-occurrence network analysis; (3) Application of a model to extract and identify the latent topics within the contents collected; (4) Plot network to represent each topic and semantic relationships between the extracted topics and terms. In the topic network it is possible to identify how the term "outbreak" links different topics related to semantic dimensions of economic, health and mediatic spheres. An implementation on the dashboard of a sentiment analysis on Twitter text from the community could give a description of the public feedback to news, giving indications to media to provide a better communication in crisis situations. cord-145300-isnqbetr 2020 Given the recent proliferation of disinformation online, there has been also growing research interest in automatically debunking rumors, false claims, and"fake news."A number of fact-checking initiatives have been launched so far, both manual and automatic, but the whole enterprise remains in a state of crisis: by the time a claim is finally fact-checked, it could have reached millions of users, and the harm caused could hardly be undone. whether people in social media, e.g., on Twitter, post links in articles to the target sources in the context of a polarizing topic, and which side of the debate are these users from; 5. Characterizing media in terms of factuality of reporting and bias is part of a larger effort at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU: the Tanbih mega-project 7 aims to limit the effect of "fake news", disinformation, propaganda and media bias by making users aware what they are reading, thus promoting media literacy and critical thinking. cord-162326-z7ta3pp9 2020 cord-197474-2wzf7nzz 2020 We further use a challenging experimental setup where the test examples come from media that were not seen during training, which prevents the model from learning to detect the source of the target news article instead of predicting its political ideology. Furthermore, in order to ensure that we are actually modeling the political ideology as it is expressed in the language of the news, we created evaluation splits in two different ways: (i) randomly, which is what is typically done (for comparison only), and (ii) based on media, where all articles by the same medium appear in either the training, the validation, or the testing dataset. The task of predicting the political ideology of news articles is typically formulated as a classification problem, where the textual content of the articles is encoded into a vector representation that is used to train a classifier to predict one of C classes (in our case, C = 3: left, center, and right). cord-254191-5cxv9l3c 2020 Building off the affordance lens and cognitive load theory, we investigate how motivational factors and personal attributes influence social media fatigue and the sharing of unverified information during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lack of critique on thoughts and the amplification of radical ideas by the virtual echo-chambers created by social media have been claimed to contribute to increased dissemination of misinformation (Barberá et al., T During COVID-19, clear communication of the severity of the situation and recommended health measures was needed to ensure people took correct action and did not suffer from unnecessary anxiety (Farooq et al., 2020) . From Table 2 , DS-R is the most critical predictor followed by exploration, self-promotion, religiosity, SMF, and entertainment in predicting unverified information sharing. We found that SMF, self-promotion, entertainment, exploration, DS-R, and religiosity all predicted unverified COVID-19 information sharing on social media. cord-258389-1u05w7r4 2020 cord-275152-8if8shva 2020 title: Social Media Platforms for Health Communication and Research in the Face of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross Sectional Survey in Uganda. In this study, we explored the usage and perceived usefulness of social media and other forms of media among medical students (MS) and healthcare professionals (HCPs) in Uganda. Majority of the medical students recognised television, radios and social media as the most useful tools for dissemination of information of COVID-19, Figure 2 . The purpose of the study was to assess the usage and perceived usefulness of social media and other forms of media among medical students and healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. This is the first study in sub-Saharan Africa assessing social media usage and perceived usefulness of various media for health campaigns during COVID-19 pandemic. In conclusion, we have been able to show that social media can be robustly used to collect research data among medical students and health care professionals with high response rates. cord-277824-q7blp3we 2020 cord-279207-azh21npc 2020 In addition, it needs to be more sensitive and responsible in reporting about public health problems like the SARS-CoV-2, and suicide where the focus is on offering information which is helpful for prevention, details the steps to take in times of the health emergency, offers expert opinions from mental health professionals, helpline numbers for support and emergency services in hospitals. The development of such guidelines are crucial as the pattern of epidemics and pandemics changes over time, but the cycle of rumors or fake news or inaccurate media reports continues to revolve around media formats and especially in social media likely due to stress, anxiety and other psychological factors of individuals which requires to be studied in greater detail. Assessing the quality of media reporting of suicide news in India against World Health Organization guidelines: a content analysis study of nine major newspapers in Tamil Nadu cord-282194-0sjmf1yn 2020 title: Impact of social media interventions and tools among informal caregivers of critically ill patients after patient admission to the intensive care unit: A scoping review The purpose of this scoping review was to summarize existing research on the impact of social media interventions and tools among informal caregivers of critically ill patients after patient admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). For the purposes of this review, we defined: (1) a caregiver as any informal (i.e., non-clinical) person who regularly provides support to the patient and is in some way directly implicated in the patient''s care or directly affected by the patient''s health problem (e.g., family, friend); (2) social media as any form of electronic communication that allow users to share information and other content and create online communities; and (3) critically ill patients as any persons who are currently admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) or had previously been admitted to an ICU. cord-282966-ew8lwmsn 2014 This chapter incorporates the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention''s (CDC) best advice for communicating during a public health crisis, including infectious disease outbreaks, bioterrorism, chemical emergencies, natural disasters, nuclear accidents and radiation releases and explosions. From the CDC down to local departments of health, public health, and safety officials are using social media to push out vital and useful information to the public and to monitor and respond to public comments. Engaging with and using emerging social media may well place the emergency-management community, including medical and public health professionals, in a better position to respond to disasters" (Merchant et al., 2011) . DHS is testing whether scanning social media sites to collect and analyze health-related data could help identify infectious disease outbreaks, bioterrorism or other public health and national security risks. The purpose of an official response to a public health crisis is to efficiently and effectively reduce and prevent illness, injury, and death, and return individuals and communities to normal as quickly as possible. cord-288024-1mw0k5yu 2020 Thus, we propose that trust propensity, an individual''s tendency to believe in others (Choi, 2019; Gefen et al., 2003) , moderates the relationship between social media use and entrepreneurial entry. Our findings reveal that social media use https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120337 Received 8 August 2020; Accepted 21 September 2020 has a positive impact on entrepreneurial entry with individuals'' offline network serving as a partial mediator. Second, our study specified a mechanism for the impact of individuals'' social media use on entrepreneurial entry via their offline network and used instrumental variables to help infer the causality. Thus, with higher social media use, individuals will have an expanded offline social network, which provides them the resources needed for successful entrepreneurial entry. We believe trust propensity in social media moderates the impact of individuals'' social media use on entrepreneurial entry by influencing their ability to network with strangers and known associates. cord-288159-rzqlmgb1 2020 Online information about the COVID-19 pandemic posted on social media displayed two seemingly distinct problems: the rapid propagation of misinformation and disinformation (MDI) and the so-called infodemic. Social media platforms rapidly stepped up their pre-existing measures of dealing with MDI and targeted specifically the COVID-19 related misleading information, whereas the infodemic remained untouched (Howard 2020) . The paper is structured as follows: first, I briefly review the measures taken by social media platforms to deal with the COVID-19 related MDI, classifying them in view of the content or context focus. By contrast, a context-focused approach would presuppose that the user has the freedom to use the social media platform in a way that stimulates and recognises other kinds of engagement with information, regardless whether the information at hand is genuine or MDI. In light of these considerations, we need a value-sensitive design re-assessment of how users interact on social media among themselves as well as with the information found online in crisis situations. cord-290777-eylp4k53 2020 Reporting of the situation in real-time from the public on social media could lead to more accurate collating of information by the media. Moreover, the volume of information being reported to and by global public health authorities exceeds the capacity to collate and analyse it, or to cross-reference and verify with other data received. The global media response to 2019-nCoV remains unbalanced, largely due to the continuously evolving developments and, as a result, public perception of risk remains exaggerated. Therefore, it is time to reduce the hype and hysteria surrounding the 2019-nCoV epidemic and reduce sens ation alisation of new information, especially on social media, where many outlets aim to grab attention from followers. The continuing 2019-nCoV epidemic threat of novel coronaviruses to global health-The latest 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China cord-291596-lp5di10v 2020 title: "Is compulsive social media use amid COVID-19 pandemic addictive behavior or coping mechanism? "Is compulsive social media use amid COVID-19 pandemic addictive behavior or coping mechanism? (a) "Does the current pattern of social media usage suggest a trend towards addictive behavior or has it become a coping mechanism to deal with current global crisis?" and (b) "What are the current and future implications of this trend on addictive behavior and mental health of people?". During current pandemic, like many other uncertainties, it is unclear whether this compulsive use of social media is just a ''phase'' and a coping mechanism or an indication of addictive behavior having mental health implications. Moreover, any research conducted on addictive behaviors in the current time should consider longitudinally the pre-present-post lockdown social media usage pattern and its mental health implications among individuals across all age groups. cord-292774-k1zr9yrg 2020 Thus, we aimed at studying the acceptance, opinion, and willingness to participate in the creation of online social media educative material among authors of published self-articles in scholarly journals. The e-survey was designed on an online cloud-based website (Survey Monkey ® .com) with the intent to cover different aspects of social media editing, such as willingness for social media promotions of (2), means of promotion (4), ethics (3), logistics (3), preference for article metrics, publication models and pre-print archiving (2), current knowledge/use of social media for these purposes (4). Over two-thirds (74) said they would like their publication promoted on social media, ResearchGate (70) being the most preferred platform, followed by Twitter (40), Facebook (37), WhatsApp (35), Academia.edu (27) , and LinkedIn (26) . To conclude, authors in rheumatology journal support the use of social media for promotions of published scholarly literature, although this does not translate into practice. cord-296966-ivp74j43 2020 cord-301525-gcls69om 2020 Prior meta-analytic evidence on advertising elasticities pertains to offline media only (Shapiro et al., 2020; Frison et al., 2014; Sethuraman et al., 2011) , while extant studies on display ads mostly focus on a select set of non-grocery products like apparel (Dinner et al., 2014) , books (Breuer et al., 2011) , cars (Naik & Peters, 2009) , or health-care, beauty and non-prescription drugs (Manchanda et al., 2006) . We study how spending in online media (i.c., display ads) and offline media (i.c., print and TV) drives offline sales in the short and the long run, across a large set of (over 150) brands from a broad (68) range of CPG categories, using data from the Dutch market. We then document how both the stand-alone and combined sales effect of online and offline ads depend on the product category, and on the volatility of advertising spending in each medium. cord-307292-de4lbc24 2020 The goal of this study is to examine whether and how youth care workers utilize social media communications for reaching out to detached adolescents and providing them emotional support. A thematic analysis of the interviews revealed three principal psychosocial usages of social media: (1) Reaching out and maintaining reciprocal and meaningful therapeutic relationships with youth at risk over time; (2) Identifying risks and emotional distress; and (3) "stepping in" and providing psychosocial assistance, when needed. Although the main conclusion from this study supports the notion that the advantages of social media therapeutic relationships with youth at risk outweigh their problematic aspects, future research is recommended to establish clear guidelines for youth caregivers who wish to integrate the new media in their daily psychosocial work. Using in-depth interviews with youth counselors and social workers, this study examined the characteristics of online therapeutic relationships between adolescents at risk and their caregivers. cord-319960-pm95v31c 2020 While undeniably influenced by the search terms selected, which were directed towards client–clinic related verbiage, a relative lack of knowledge regarding veterinarians'' roles in human health, food safety/security, and society generally outside of companion animal care was recognized. The Netbase platform [17] was employed to study the number of online posts, from Twitter and other publicly available sites including blogs, news releases, and online publications, related to keywords associated with veterinarians over the time period from 1st September 2017 to 30th November 2019. Primary search terms, or keywords, along with exclusionary terms, were developed by researchers to facilitate the collection of a dataset encompassing online and social media posts associated with veterinarians, veterinary medicine, and veterinary service locations (i.e., animal hospitals or clinics). There was a general lack of top terms revealed for the veterinarian searches conducted that pertained to roles outside of caring for household pets and companion animals. cord-324654-nnojaupv 2020 cord-331766-sdbagsud 2020 With their many facilities and applications, social media platforms offer opportunities for patient resources and education, professional networking, research collaboration and dissemination, public engagement and policy discussions, and personal and professional support. As social media has become ubiquitous, it is critically important for surgeons, whether active enthusiastic users or passive apprehensive observers, to be aware of the potential risks and pitfalls and to take caution and control over their online presence. While there are definite positive aspects of social media, there are users whose online behaviour has a negative impact on their colleagues, the surgical community, and the medical profession as a whole. 12 Surgeons must also be aware that just because a visual abstract or content has been widely shared or retweeted on social media PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SURGERY xxx:xxx platforms, it does not necessarily mean that it is of high quality. 3 All content posted on social media, regardless of whether it originates from a surgeon''s personal or professional account, should be regarded as visible to the public. cord-331867-mqqtzf8k 2020 cord-332181-k90i33gp 2012 cord-334574-1gd9sz4z 2020 cord-342360-d7qc20i4 2020 Young people are creatively and affectively supporting the social distancing initiatives in Brunei Darussalam through the use of social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok. Using qualitative content analysis (QCA) data of social media content by Bruneian youth, this paper reveals the localised and contextualised creative production of five ''social distancing'' narratives as a response to the national and global concerns in times of a global pandemic: narrative of fear; narrative of responsibility; narrative of annoyance; narrative of fun; and narrative of resistance. As there is not much information known on audience''s social media consumption in risk communication and their individualised, as well as contextualised risk perception, a preliminary research on how the audience deliver and circulate COVID-19 related content on social media was conducted, leading to this preliminary finding on the active involvement of young people in highlighting the significance of social distancing in flattening the curve in the country. cord-342984-3qbvlbwo 2020 cord-346194-l8svzjp2 2020 This research validates how social media exposure indirectly effects preventive behavior concerning COVID-19 and explains the paths of effect through awareness or information exchange. In this study, the researchers determined the outcome of social media on the preventive behavior among people about COVID-19, how individuals gain information and awareness knowledge through social media to control COVID-19. Additionally, path analysis and maximum likelihood method were used to verify the mediated impact of health communication (awareness knowledge and information exchange) among social media and preventive behavior. H5 and H3 tested whether awareness knowledge and information exchange directly influenced preventive behavior during an infectious disease outbreak like COVID-19. Eke [37] supported this theory that public awareness affects an individual behavior during an infectious disease outbreak to control its spread. Therefore, due to lack of resources, most developing nations use social media networks for health communication tools to prevent and control the spread of infectious disease in a community [37] . cord-351448-jowb5kfc 2020 title: The quality of online media reporting of celebrity suicide in India and its association with subsequent online suicide-related search behaviour among general population: An infodemiology study The present study aimed to assess the quality of online media reporting of a recent celebrity suicide in India and its impact on the online suicide related search behaviour of the population. Thus, in the present study we monitored the changes in internet search volumes for keywords representing suicide-seeking and help-seeking behaviours using the Google Trends platform as a proxy marker to assess the impact of recent celebrity suicide in India. Thus, the present study aimed to assess the quality of online media reporting of a celebrity suicide in India, and evaluate its adherence with the WHO guidelines for responsible media reporting of suicide. Further, the use of a novel Google Trends analysis to show an increased online search interest for suicide-seeking keywords immediately after the reference celebrity suicide provided support for the existence of Werther effect in the Indian context. cord-353041-qmpatq8m 2020 cord-355383-cqd2pa8c 2020 In an attempt to stimulate public response, threat perception, and persuade people to comply with the preventive policies and regulations, the mainstream media rely on producing news contents that will increase the perceived self-efficacy to protect, vulnerability to the disease, and severity of the pandemic outbreaks (Bish & Michie, 2010; Park, Boatwright, & Avery, 2019; Pieri, 2019) . The objective of this study was to examine the association between exposure to COVID-19-related news on mainstream media, risk perceptions, and depressive symptoms. Participants reported exposure to COVID-19 news on mainstream media as 2.73 AE 0.91, depressive symptoms (1.92 AE 0.93), perceived severity (3.73 AE 1.19), perceived vulnerability (3.67 AE 1.07) and, self-efficacy (4.01 AE 0.67). Standardized mediation tests showed perceived vulnerability as mediating 34.4% (bias-corrected 95% CI = 7.79-149.35) of the relationship between exposure to COVID-19 news on mainstream media and depressive symptoms (Figure 1 ) with an indirect effect of b = .04; 95%CI = 0.01-0.06. In this study of 501 participants, perceived vulnerability mediated the relationship between exposure to COVID-19 news on the mainstream media and depressive symptoms. cord-356353-e6jb0sex 2020 Both practices rely upon and reinforce a pervasive appetite for digital input or feedback that we characterize as "data hunger." They also share a propensity to assemble insight and make meaning accretively-a propensity that we denote here as "world or meaning accretion." Throughout this article, we probe the dynamic interaction of social and machine learning by drawing examples from one genre of online social contention and connection in which the pervasive influence of machine learning is evident: namely, that which occurs across social media channels and platforms. In such settings, the data accretion upon which machine learning depends for the development of granular insights-and, on social media platforms, associated auctioning and targeting of advertising-compounds the cumulative, sedimentary effect of social data, making negative impressions generated by "revenge porn," or by one''s online identity having been fraudulently coopted, hard to displace or renew.