PERCEPTIONS OF EMPLOYEES ON THE CONTENT AND RELIABILITY OF ONLINE NEWS IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PROCESS Cover Image

COVID-19 PANDEMİSİ SÜRECİNDE ÇALIŞANLARIN ÇEVRİMİÇİ HABERLERİN İÇERİĞİ ve GÜVENİLİRLİĞİ KONUSUNDAKİ ALGISI
PERCEPTIONS OF EMPLOYEES ON THE CONTENT AND RELIABILITY OF ONLINE NEWS IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PROCESS

Author(s): Savaş KANBUR, Tolga Barişik, Ulaş Çinar
Subject(s): Media studies, Health and medicine and law, Social Informatics, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: COVID-19; News; Reliability; Stress; Perception; Statistics;

Summary/Abstract: Day by day, the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading. It has been attempted, in the light of certain steps, to slow down its spread. It is understood that the epidemic has long been covered by so much press, which has gained worldwide attention, and news broadcasts make society feel puzzled and even cause fear and panic. In addition, the perception of stress on individuals was examined. In this study, university employees across Turkey, has been selected as the participants associations and employees of various businesses and organizations. A questionnaire study was conducted to better understand and evaluate the content and reliability of COVID-19-related online news by sending these participants a two-part questionnaire with 11 demographic questions and 10 Likert-scale questions. The sample of the study was implemented in the experimental group of 500 people in total. The data of the survey study were analyzed and the statistical methods for making significance by evaluating the normalization tests were carried out with the SPSS 26.0 package program.

  • Issue Year: 13/2021
  • Issue No: 49
  • Page Range: 300-307
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Turkish