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Social media use has highlighted its role in the spread of information during the COVID-19. To be able to understand the impacts of social media in China during the COVID-19, this chapter firstly introduces the development and progress of social media since 2000 and to understand its role in the spread of the incident. Then using literature reviews technique introduces the performance and analyzes the impact of social media in the epidemic in China. However, it is revealed that there are some problems of social media exposed in this epidemic. Therefore, if measures can put in place in these exposed problems, could serve as directions for handling crisis events in post-COVID-19 society.
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Jang, Y., Hua, J., Adu Gyamfi, B., Shaw, R. (2022). Social Media Development and Application During Pandemic and Post-pandemic from the Perspectives of Recovery and Preparedness. In: Hua, J., Adu Gyamfi, B., Shaw, R. (eds) Considerations for a Post-COVID-19 Technology and Innovation Ecosystem in China. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6959-0_4
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