COVID-19: students’ media use, trust and optimism during the movement control order (MCO)

• Main Authors: Mohamed, Shafizan, Mohd Nasir, Nur Shakira, Wan Mohd Ghazali, Wan Norshira
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: HM Sociology; HM1106 Interpersonal relations. Social behavior; LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/83397/1/83397_COVID-19_%20students%E2%80%99%20media%20use%2C%20trust%20and%20optimism_new.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/83397/

This study investigated how uncertainty and information seeking behavior on social media affected the students’ emotions during the implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO) in Malaysia. In the attempt to mitigate the rapidly increasing Covid-19 pandemic, the Malaysian government had impose...