The Impact of Social Media During the Ebola and Covid-19 Crisis in Nigeria, 2014-2020

Student: Martha Adesuwa OMOAREOJE (Project, 2025)
Department of International Studies and Diplomacy
University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State

Abstract

Social media has spread quickly and impacted practically every aspect of human existence. Social media is the web application that is expanding the fastest in the twenty-first century, as seen by its widespread use and the resulting wide-ranging impact on society. Social media is the term used to describe the various networks in which individuals produce, share, exchange, and comment on one other. It is a collection of web-based programs that facilitates the production and sharing of user-generated content while building upon an ideological framework. Therefore, social media platforms became the focus of attention when the COVID-19 (2020) and Ebola (2014) pandemics struck and had many effects, such as an increase in violent crime, cybercrime, gender-based domestic abuse, extrajudicial killings, and medical fraud.1

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impact social media during ebola covid-19 crisis nigeria 2014-2020
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