Stuart Jones unpacks the results of the latests query Listen to full interview
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24 Hour Trend Report | 1 July 2020
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion and division in South African public-domain social media conversations on 30 June 2020. Global trends impacting on South Africa are also included. Download Report (PDF) Prepare for worst As South Africa’s COVID-19 cases surge past...
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The week in social media | 23 – 29 June 2020
Every day we observe, dissect and analyse the news and information driving the conversations around the week’s most topical issues on social media. These are the highlights you should know about. Remember we quote tweets verbatim so any grammar or spelling mistakes are as they appear in the tweet. The taxi strike and its many...
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What the latests CABC findings point too? | SmileFM
Stuart Jones unpacks the results from a recent Protest report…what does this point too? A trend? Listen to full interview
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The great tobacco debate played out on social media | Citypress
The ban on the sale of tobacco products may have , polarised the country, but it also opened debate about issues of health and policy. Read full article
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Social media has made it easier for us to keep in touch with our loved ones and also gave us an easier way to gather information. But with this easy access to news and information, also comes the issue of fake news. These are facts that haven’t been checked and just shared as true. With the current pandemic, the spreading of fake news has caused a lot uncertainty regarding the disease itself. We talk to Prof Camaren Peter from the Center for Analytics and Behavior Change about the dangers around the spreading of fake news on social media and how to fact check what we read on social media. | News24
It’s more than just a debate about smoking. It’s about empowering people to take a stand to actualise the changes they want to see, writes Camaren Peter Read full article
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Covid-19: We’re all just fumbling in the dark | Daily Maverick
When a phenomenon is completely new, and there is no historical data, information and proven hypotheses to work from, we have no choice but to ride it out intelligently. We have no choice but to remain patient and cautious. Read the full Op-ed by Camaren Peter >
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Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change tracks COVID19 social fracture | CapeTalk
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change, at UCT has launched a six-month project that will use social media analytics and advocacy to combat the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus in South Africa and beyond. Listen to the full interview with Lester Kiewit on CapeTalk:
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Professor Camaren Peter talks behavioral change and social media during cover-19 pandemic | Kaya FM
Prof Camaren Peter on UCT’s Centre For Analytics and Behavioural Change and their social media project covering COVID-19. Prof Peter recently published an article titled “The Age of Complexity: A new world (dis)order has dawned” What we are living through is not a “new normal”. It is new, but it isn’t normal.
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New centre tracks COVID-19 social fracture | University of Cape Town
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change, incubated by the Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Graduate School of Business, has launched a six-month project that will use social media analytics and advocacy to combat the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus in South Africa and beyond. Associate...