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Over the past decade, improved access to the internet and internet-connected devices have accelerated a rapid and vast adoption of information communication technologies and social media everywhere, changing everything from how people organize to how we access information. This development means new opportunities as well as challenges for humanitarian organizations to communicate with the communities they serve. To date, social media for humanitarian aid is a vastly untapped and largely under-researched field (Cone, 2012). Most studies of social media are based on research methods that assume that we can generalize across different user groups, despite ample evidence that people’s perception and usage of social media are highly context-specific (Miller et al., 2016). This reality poses challenges for humanitarian organizations with stakeholders spread across the world—compounded by the fact that a majority of studies of social media and other Web 2.0 tools focus on high-resource settings. This thesis aims to explore the potential of social media for health promotion and community engagement purposes in humanitarian settings through a naturalistic case study of the MSF Patent Multimedia Engagement project (2019-2021). The analysis draws on the Three Level Digital Divide Framework (Van Deursen and van Dijk, 2019) and a theorization of the Patient Health Engagement Model (Graffigna and Barello, 2018).

At the corner outside Handelsbanken’s headquarters, the sidewalk is broader than usual. It creates a square-like space, where public benches are installed facing the sightseeing boats leaving for the archipelago. With their backs to the display windows in Handelsbanken’s facade, the benches are crouched down, like a bent knee waiting for a sitter. The building makes up the edge of the site, like a stage set behind the people watching the scenic view. Television screens are installed in the bank’s windows, their glass sandblasted in a striped pattern that looks like a barcode. Inside, a twenty-first-century office is visible, with white laminate tabletops on aluminum legs. The screens silently project their light out on the pavement. This site is the point of departure for the work, along with a text called The Dialogue of the Exchequer, written approximately in 1180. In it, a master explains to his disciple how the economic system works by describing the tax court of the king. The scene with the Exchequer is set around a table covered with a chequered cloth. The officials sitting there each have a part to play in the drama. Their hands move objects over the surface, giving new meaning to the counters depending on their placement. The text repeatedly warns that the person explaining this system could easily retreat into a cryptic language, sealing of any possibility of understanding. An etching from ca. 1490 of the Exchequer serves as the model for the animation The tongue is a little member, but boast of great things. The Dialogue of the Exchequer is used as the script, reworked and chopped up. It is a pleasure to play the fool.

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This study aims to gain a deeper understanding and knowledge about the influence in which third-party online reviews have on consumers’ online purchase intention for skincare products during the implemented restrictions during COVID-19. The study is conducted using a quantitative research method by distributing an online questionnaire. A deductive approach was chosen in order to examine the influence of the independent variable on the dependent variable; third-party online reviews and online purchase intention in the context of skincare products. Simple linear regression was conducted to test the statistical significant relationship between the independent variable and the factor variable with the online purchase intention separately. The results of this study indicate that third-party online reviews have a significant influence and an impact on the consumers’ online purchase intention for skincare. Also, it was also discovered that COVID-19 restrictions had a strong effect on the dependent variable, but not necessarily as strong to influence consumers to use third-party online reviews before making an online purchase.

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