DYNAMICS AND TYPOLOGY OF QURANIC CONTENT IN TIKTOK

Facilities management along with health care are two important aspects in controlling the spread of infectious diseases with regard to controlling the outbreak of global COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, with the increasing outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of examining the relationship between the built environment and the outbreak of infectious diseases has become more significant. The aim of the research described in this article is to develop effective infection control and mitigation measures to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 pandemic in the built environment. This study seeks to answer the question of how the facilities management industry can help reduce the transmission of coronavirus. For this purpose, an online survey questionnaire was distributed internationally from 8 April to 25 July, 2020 to collect data from various key stakeholders. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS software. Various methods for the prevention and control of infectious diseases transmission are evaluated through this questionnaire-based survey with regard to their effectiveness for the healthy and safe built environment. These methods were categorized into three groups, including training protocols, operation and maintenance, and design and construction. The results show that all suggested methods have a positive effect on all types of buildings. These methods have an equal effect on low-risk buildings, while for high and very high-risk buildings, training protocols and design and construction measures have the greatest impact. In addition, training protocols and the measures in operation and maintenance will have the greatest effect on medium-risk buildings. The results can help in more rational decision making in relation to controlling the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in all types of buildings.

The outbreak of pandemics has short- and long-term impacts on the livelihood and income of the global population. This study assesses the factors contributing to the loss of income during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe. This study used a dataset collected by Afrobarometer in 2022, where 1199 participants were interviewed across Zimbabwe. The Binary Logistic Regression (BLR) Model was used to analyze data for this study, where a dichotomous dependent variable (loss of income during COVID-19) was regressed with continuous and categorical variables. The results show that loss of household income during the outbreak of COVID-19 was worsened by age, access to television news, perception of present living conditions, perception of the country’s economic condition in 12 months’ time, and perception of keeping prices stable. In contrast, loss of household income during the outbreak of COVID-19 was significantly and negatively associated with gender, number of adults in household, access to medical care, attending community meetings, access to radio news, access to newspaper news, perception of improving living standards of the poor, and perceptions of government handling job creation. To reduce loss of household income and livelihood options in future pandemics, there is a need to improve focus on the needs of women, address the needs of the ageing population, promote attending community meetings, and improve access to radio and newspaper news. This study is critical for policy formulation and implementation of an action plan to reduce loss of income prior, during and post-pandemics. It is critical to reduce psychological and mental health issues emanating from the loss of income due to the pandemic.

Curriculum is pivotal in any learning environment and experience. While much focus is placed on the designed curriculum, for learners, some learnings are hinged on hidden curriculum. Following the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the transition from onsite to online learning, hidden curriculum seems to have been hampered. Hence, issues revolving around hidden curriculum during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic are explored. Review method was adopted for the study. The findings of the study suggest that hidden curriculum is likely to be ineffective as learners are not exposed to their educators in face-to-face learning context where they are able to easily pick and imbibe certain character traits as envisaged in the traditional teaching and learning exercise. The study therefore recommends amongst others the need for minimal time to be scheduled for face-to-face contact sections. Also, educators should be admonished, trained and guided to be intentional about the issue of learners imbibing certain character traits from them during the minimal time scheduled for the face-to-face contact sections.

The study investigated technological motivation and perception of secondary school students in English language since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in Osun State. The study is a descriptive study; a sample of 400 students from Osogbo and Olorunda, Osun Central, Osun State formed the participants for the study. The instrument for data collections was questionnaire and reliability level was 0.78. Data collected were analyzed descriptive statistics (frequency count and simple percentages), t-test and correlation. The findings of the study revealed that secondary school students perceived the roles of technological in English language since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in Osun State as it is easy to use, it save time, develop interest in learning, provides communication medium for information, promote individual learning and it promote active learning. Projector, public address, multimedia software, interactive board, computer, scanner and printer are the technology facilities available for students use since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic while others like internet facilities, media player, Learning Management System (LMS), zoom and google classroom are not available for use. The study of the findings revealed the challenges encountered by students while using technology facilities as a motivator since the outbreak of covid-19 pandemic as ICT software is not readily available, insufficient number of ICT, insufficient technical support from ICT, absence of constant electricity, amongst others and there is no significant difference in the frequency use of technology facilities as a motivator between public and private secondary schools in Osun State. The following recommendation were made such as: the ministry of education and local government education authority should provide computers, internet and other ICT tools in all the government own schools so as to encourage teachers use of ICTs, employers of teachers should give sufficient technical skills to their employees on ICT tools, teachers training institutions like institutes of education, colleges of education, National Teachers Institutes and so on should make ICTs course compulsory for all the teachers under training to make them familiar with the use of ICTs in teaching and learning.

PurposeCritical digital pedagogy (CDP) is an emerging field in education. The basic tenet of CDP involves taking learners' experiences into account and engaging them in critical thinking about social oppression. With the outbreak of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, CDP has got more currency and appropriacy in the current paradigm shift in learning and teaching.Design/methodology/approachThis paper scrutinizes different aspects of CDP including its origins, theoretical underpinnings and its implementation in different contexts. It also critically reviews Freire's (1972) problem-posing education and Morris and Stommel's (2017) model of CDP.FindingsThe article proposes a CDP model based on the previous ones, which includes the core concepts and criteria of CDP and focuses on EFL classrooms.Research limitations/implicationsOne of the limitations of CDP is gaining the learners' approval in creating an environment of co-constructing knowledge moving away from traditional practices. In addition to that, the use of new media in the classroom can be intimidating for students and stakeholders alike. The lack of logistic support in many rural, remote and underdeveloped contexts cannot be ignored eitherPractical implicationsThe paper provides recommendations for future research in CDP.Originality/valueCritical pedagogy (CP) is a teaching approach in which the oppressed are basically focused and teachers and learners construct knowledge together. Recently, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, global education had to go online. Consequently, traditional teaching and learning had to undergo a paradigm shift. Along with other changes in traditional teaching and learning practices, there has been a significant change in teaching philosophy. This is how the CDP finds its currency in this emerging unprecedented teaching and learning situation.

The phenomenon of deplatforming intended as the removal of social media accounts because of breaking rules on mainstream platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram recently increased due to new terms and conditions of use of digital media, and new alternative social media platforms emerged and presented themselves as protectors of freedom expression. In this way, it becomes interesting to understand better the context of these platforms' so-called web suburbs that consist in those digital places that ≪host what we can generally call "subcultures," including fandoms, religious sects, political extremists, and subcultures≫. Since April 2020, Gab can be considered the most widespread alternative platform in Western countries, with twenty million users daily, born as Twitter and Facebook alternative social media. The alternative social media platforms are intended as other connection services between users, which is halfway between a social media and a discussion forum born to boycott the censorship actions of the main social media platforms (Meta Group, Twitter, etc.) and celebrate free speech even on controversial positions. How are sensitive topics, such as the one that concerns the skepticism related to the approvals of vaccines during the pandemic, addressed on the alternative social media platform compared to how they are dealt with on the mainstream social media platforms? This explorative work wonders about the users' points of view on vaccine concerns and the relevant differences between Gab and Facebook in addressing this topic. The empirical part of this work has been set starting from the dataset composed of Gab and Facebook content posted between March 2020 and July 2021. The posts were extracted with web scraping techniques (for Gab) and proprietary data tools (for Facebook), querying the keywords: vaccine, vaccines, anti-vax (no-vax), Covid, Covid-19, coronavirus. The collection procedure considered the different platforms' structure and their different organization of the interaction spaces. The population consisted of 8000 English writers' posts, from which 2000 posts with the highest interaction value were extracted. The dataset was analyzed using Topic Modeling, Factor, and Classification Analysis techniques. Our work's methodological output deals with comparing these social media platforms, bearing in mind their ontological objects and their algorithms' role. From the analysis emerged the differences and similarities of the social media platforms in terms of the type of content published, rates of involvement, sources of information, and directions of the considered speech. These differences have been duly highlighted by three clusters related to discourse orientation and communication approach: Conflict of views, Emotional externalization, Recommendation and practices. In addition to the type of communication and information circulating on a powerful platform such as Gab, the results help us understand the different narratives promoted on the two social media platforms and their role in the possible promotion of the same sentiment, opinions, and ideological polarization.

In the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the Vietnamese state-run media and social media have a reciprocal relationship in informing the public. The study shows that social and mainstream media met and coordinated in informing the public about COVID-19, and they attract attention from the public. Drawing on examples of the interplay between the mainstream media and social media, questions of the role of the media in setting the agenda and facilitating public discussions about COVID-19 are considered. These questions also imply that in the time of the reduction in mainstream media audiences and the spread of social networks, media consumers need information that is relevant and useful to their well-being.

Cybercrime threat has shown a sudden increase during the enforced stay-at-home order due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, empirical research was conducted in providing substantial evidence regarding the level of cybercrime threats in Malaysia during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. A quantitative approach was used to collect data among 332 respondents across Malaysia. The finding stipulated that a large number of respondents have experienced a high level of online phishing/malware distribution (72.9%), a moderate level of online fraud (69.2%), and a moderate level of online sexual harassment (87.7%). The move to explore the level of cybercrime threat experienced by the public during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is essential to detect, disrupt, and mitigate cybercrime threats during unprecedented situations.

Extreme, anti-establishment actors are being characterized increasingly as ‘dangerous individuals’ by the social media platforms that once aided in making them into ‘Internet celebrities’. These individuals (and sometimes groups) are being ‘deplatformed’ by the leading social media companies such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube for such offences as ‘organised hate’. Deplatforming has prompted debate about ‘liberal big tech’ silencing free speech and taking on the role of editors, but also about the questions of whether it is effective and for whom. The research reported here follows certain of these Internet celebrities to Telegram as well as to a larger alternative social media ecology. It enquires empirically into some of the arguments made concerning whether deplatforming ‘works’ and how the deplatformed use Telegram. It discusses the effects of deplatforming for extreme Internet celebrities, alternative and mainstream social media platforms and the Internet at large. It also touches upon how social media companies’ deplatforming is affecting critical social media research, both into the substance of extreme speech as well as its audiences on mainstream as well as alternative platforms.

What are “alternative social media”? How can we distinguish alternative social media from mainstream social media? Why are social media alternatives important? How do they work? Why do people make them? What do they tell us about contemporary corporate social media and its related phenomena: surveillance, privacy, power, self-expression, and sociality? This essay answers these questions by theorizing alternative social media. The empirical data for this alternative social media theory are drawn from previous work on alternative sites such as Diaspora, rstat.us, Twister, GNU social, and the Dark Web Social Network. These cases are used to build a generalized conceptual framework. However, this article does not solely theorize from these examples, but rather seeks to contextualize and historicize alternative social media theory within larger bodies of work. In addition to generalization from examples, the theory is informed by two threads. The first thread is the work of alternative media scholars such as Nick Couldry, Chris Atton, and Clemencia Rodriguez, who have done the historical and theoretical work to define alternative media. The second thread is a synthesis of works exploring the technical side of contemporary media, coming from new fields such as software studies. The threads and empirical analyses of sites such as Diaspora, Quitter, and rstat.us are combined into a theoretical matrix that can account for the processes and technical infrastructures that comprise social media alternatives and explain why they are distinct from sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google, as well as why they are important.

Social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube continue to provide higher education lecturers with the opportunity to share personal and academic resources. They use these platforms to communicate with colleagues and students for educational purposes. This study was motivated by the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has made online learning a priority for higher education institutions, and lecturers in South Africa have had to rethink the adoption of social media platforms as learning tools. Although social media platforms were used before the COVID-19 pandemic, on a small scale, this study investigated the readiness and challenges of lecturers in adopting social media platforms as a teaching and learning tool during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. This study collected qualitative data from individual lecturers using a purposeful sampling technique. The findings of the study indicate that lecturers are ready to adopt social media as a teaching and learning tool during the covid 19 pandemic. WhatsApp is the most used social media platform for teaching and learning. This study also identified some benefits and challenges in adopting social media platforms for teaching and learning in higher education institutions (HEIs), however, in practicality these challenges should be explored and addressed before rolling out social media usage in HEI’s. Based on the findings, the study provides recommendations on the use of social media platforms in teaching and learning in HEI’s during pandemics, as well as future research on social media use to assist in teaching and learning in HEI’s.

Legacy and new chlorinated persistent organic pollutants in the rivers of south India: Occurrences, sources, variations before and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper follows the recent areas of interest trucked by Google Trends to investigate the importance of the customers’ technological savviness and firm’s social media communication at creation of brand equity. A special attention is paid at the so called ‘Net generation’ and its behavior during COVID-19 pandemic. The data was collected through an online survey distributed in Portugal with the assistance of Qualtrics online survey platform and counted with respondents that had a prior experience in following or engaging with brands on social media. To understand the relationships between Customer Technology Savviness (CTS), firm’s Social Media Communication (SMC) and Customer-Based Brand Equity (CBBE), this study applies the Partial Last Squares method of Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results of the multigroup analysis show that customers who used social media more heavily during pandemic denoted a stronger relationship between CTS and CBBE, CTS and SMC and between SMC and CBBE, of which the last was not confirmed in case of customers who made less use of social media since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic.

The Qur’an is an Islam holy book used as life guidance. Since its function as human life guidance, some strategies and ways are necessary in learning al Qur’an. Many strategies are usable in learning Qur’an, one of them is by learning munasabah science and the relationship between the topic and verses of Qur’an. The development of Data Mining that is expanded with text mining makes it easy to divide and find out the relationship of the topic of Qur’an especially in its translation. FP – Growth Algorithm is one of algorithm with many excellences in obtaining association pattern, in this case by determining topic relationship on Qur’an. The experiment in this research was carried out with 4 models where the best parameter is at minimum support 80% and its minimum confidence is 40%. Rule that is produced by algorithm is 159 with lift ratio 1.203. The best rule is implemented on android programming language as Qur’an learning media.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has complicated the working conditions of higher education institutions in Ukraine. In this regard, saving energy resources of the university offers an opportunity to get out of the crisis. The purpose of the study is to develop a management system for energy complexes with non-conventional renewable energy sources in the context of preventing a new outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic. METHODS: The method of Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Nachhaltiges Bauen was used to conduct energy audits, construct energy profiles of university offices. The cluster analysis was used to perform energy certification of university offices according to the indicators of integral energy efficiency potential and the level of annual specific energy consumption. Fuzzy methods made it possible to classify all the buildings into 3 categories (A, B, C) to prioritize their use in the light of Covid-19 pandemic. The system for monitoring the attained level of energy efficiency is based on the use of discriminant analysis. FINDINGS: Implementation of the weighted strategy has proved that the classes will be given online, 23% of all offices. Category A (administrative, technical, service buildings;laboratories with unique equipment with 24-hour service) will be used in a pessimistic scenario (continuation of Covid-19 pandemic). In the optimistic scenario (end of Covid-19 pandemic), by means of the suggested energy efficiency monitoring system, the probability of using category A officesmakes100%, B offices- 50% and C offices- 13%. CONCLUSION: Implementation of the developed energy efficiency action plan will offer the opportunity for the University to use reasonably the common connection point of knowledge management of energy complexes with non-conventional renewable energy sources in the context of preventing a new outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The profitability of implementing a weighted energy efficiency strategy is 15%, with a payback period of 6.7 years for the purchase and installation of non-conventional renewable energy equipment. In the future, it would be advisable to convert gradually all of the remaining 14 university buildings to the autonomous use of non-conventional renewable energy sources, using a common connection point for the knowledge management of the energy complexes. (C) 2022 GJESM. All rights reserved.