University youth's perceptions of the Corona pandemic images :

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication, Faculty of Arts, Minia University

Abstract

This study came to examine how university youth see pictures that dealt with the effects of the Corona pandemic on various aspects of life in terms of their role in their awareness of the danger of the Corona virus, using a tool Designed specifically for the study of "subjectivity" and structures of hidden meaning constructs, it allows transferring qualitative assessments to a quantifiable scale and is a Q methodology tool.
The study used the survey method, and it was applied to a deliberate sample of (30 university students).
As for the respondents’ perceptions of the images of the pandemic, they were as follows:
With regard to their awareness of the seriousness of the Corona virus, the pictures of strange scenes of this pandemic and unfamiliar to us, which were imposed on us by the isolation conditions, were the most pictures that made the respondents aware of the danger of this virus.
Regarding their fear of the epidemic; It was the strange pictures of burials and mass graves that alerted the respondents to the danger of the virus, as the image of people wearing protective clothing and burying one of the deceased was placed in a wooden coffin, yet they avoided touching it and holding it through iron clamps, and a picture of people holding the body of the deceased through laces to avoid To touch his body, in the first and second orders.
 

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