The role of video journalism in influencing youth attitudes towards the Corona crisis

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant Professor – Journalism Department – Faculty of Mass Communication – Beni-Suef University

Abstract

This study aimed to monitor, analyze and interpret the role of video journalism in influencing the cognitive, emotional and behavioral effects of the public and their attitudes towards the Corona crisis and how Egypt deals with it, using the media survey method by applying a questionnaire form on a sample of 200 individuals who follow video journalism via the Internet to identify the extent of They followed up on the news of the Corona crisis through video journalism and the extent of the impact of this exposure on their cognitive, emotional and behavioral aspects, as well as their attitudes towards that crisis.
The study reached several results, the most important of which are:

Respondents who sometimes exposed to video files dealing with the Corona crisis via the Internet came first, and the respondents who exposed to them continuously, came in second place, while the respondents who were exposed to video clips rarely ranked last.
Videos that dealt with ways to prevent corona virus came first, videos that dealt with symptoms of the Corona virus came in second place, videos dealing with the number of daily infections and deaths ranked third, also videos that guide ways to deal with Corona sufferers ranked fourth, while the videos dealing with the work to discover vaccines for the Corona virus came in the fifth place, and the clips dealing with methods of treating cases infected with the Corona virus came in the sixth and last place.


There is a correlation between the intensity of exposure to videos about the Corona crisis on the Internet and the cognitive, emotional and behavioral effects of this exposure.
There is a correlation between the intensity of exposure to videos dealing with the Corona crisis on the Internet and the public's attitudes towards that crisis.

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