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Young People

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Initial release Hong Kong
Directors Chang Cheh
MandarinNián Qīng Rén
Box office1. 224 million HKD
CantoneseNin4 Hing1 Jan4
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Date of Upd.
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About Young People


Young People is a 1972 Hong Kong drama film directed by Chang Cheh and starring David Chiang, Ti Lung, Chen Kuan-tai, Irene Chan and pop singer Agnes Chan, the younger sister of Irene Chan, in her debut film role.

Instagram is overtaking Twitter as a news source"

Nov 29,2023 12:31 pm

photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests.

The year 2020, Reuters Institute Digital News report Found that doubling the use of Instagram for news, and since 2018.

The trend is strongest among Young People . It is a quarter of British 18 to 24 Said almost-year-old used Instagram as a source of news About coronavirus.

But Social Media platforms were to be trusted to the least trusted sources.

Only 26% of People Said they trusted Social Media as a source of information About The Virus . A similar percentage Said that they trusted The News , the informed been had via chat apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.

the National governments and news organizations, by contrast, were the two confidants of About 59% of the respondents.

Instagram is now used by More Than a third of all the People who responded to the poll, and two-thirds of under-25s. And 11% use it for news, by only a point behind Twitter.

"Instagram is very popular with younger People ," Said Nic Newman , senior author of The Report . "They really respond well to the stories that are told simply and well with images".

Stand-out visual stories in recent months have helped the Climate Change , The Black Lives Matter movement, and the coronavirus all seen massive engagement on The Platform .

News vs non-news use on Social Media -

percentage of People , the Social Network in The Past week

countries: UK, USA, Germany, France, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Japan, Australia, Brazil. Source: Reuters Institute

"It's not like you Said , not necessarily The Other ," Mr Newman replaced. "You could use Facebook and Instagram, or Twitter and Instagram. "

Instagram is owned by Facebook, which now reaches 85% of the People each week. The Company is domination, how stories are told ", remains incredibly important," he added. The Company also owns WhatsApp.

the Temporary confidence boost

The Corona-Virus-pandemic seems to have also offered a temporary respite to a downward trend, as Many news organizations are trustworthy.

Only 38% of respondents Said they trusted The News most of The Time . Less than half - 46% Said they trusted their preferred news source.

In a total of 40 countries were surveyed. Only in six of them, a majority has to say that you can Trust , "most of The News , most of The Time ".

The case, in particular the poor in the UK, where only 28% of the respondents supported The Statement . This figure was 12 percentage points lower than The Nation , the answer is in the 2019 report.

The plunge In Confidence was only exceeded by Chile and Hong Kong , both of which have seen violent street protests, and still rank higher than the United Kingdom, to 30%.

But things changed significantly, once the coronavirus crisis.

A slightly differently worded question in April - About the confidence in the information About the coronavirus Saw The News organizations increase of 59% Trust rating, on a par with national governments.

Trust in the sources of Covid-19-information

the average of the six countries, April 2020

countries: USA, UK, Germany, Spain, Argentina, South Korea source: Reuters Institute

The authors of The Report speculate The Identical levels of Trust as a result of news organizations, the strengthening of Public Health advice.

But the sudden high has already begun to fall.

Trust is a precious good for the journalists is to destroy, like all social goods, easy to use, but not easy to be created. The maintenance of confidence in the age of Social Media is becoming more and more difficult Every Day , as Conspiracy Theories go viral, accuracy is too often sacrificed on the altar of the virality, and the idea of truth is so controversial.

This report shows a curious paradox in relation to Trust . It is true that confidence in what is sometimes referred to disparagingly, as " mainstream journalism fails me, but the big audience for those outlets at the beginning of the pandemic are nothing if not a judgment About The Public appetite for reliable, trusted news worthy. In the UK, with its regulated broadcasting, there are still a lot of it.

The deeper question is whether a young audience will consume.

Reuters show the remarkable growth of Instagram as a news source, making Facebook look the purchase of more and more as one of the biggest bargains in history. If, as the authors predict, Instagram surpassed Twitter in the next year, this could be The Moment for the journalists finally recognize that the latter, if your favored Platform , similar to the Public Opinion less and less.

"What we see is a relatively high Level of Trust - in The Time of the lock feature - in the media and national governments. But we do have some polling since then, which shows that Trust in the media are Said to have fallen by 11 percentage points between April and may," Mr Newman.

Although not officially part of The Report is that recent polling indicates that the "moment of national unity" have exceeded can.

Impartial news

in the Midst of all of this analysis of Trust , Most People ask, - what The Report calls the "silent majority" - you prefer what you are as "objective" news.

The authors of The Report had not asked this question, since 2013, since when the use of opinion and open positions has increased in the reporting.

In nine of the countries in which This Was explored, they all Said they preferred news sources with "no view".

The Strongest preference was in Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and Denmark. These are "all countries with strong and independent public broadcaster," The Report Said .

In contrast, the US - "where politics and the media have Said the increasingly partisan in The Years " - a lot of other People , they prefer a message of the shares from your point of view.

Bbc News , contributed data to this study, remained The Most trusted news brand in the UK, with 64% confidence.

"in Spite of the fact that The Bbc is under a lot of criticism, what we find, consistently, The Bbc remains, with the majority of the People , very familiar," Mr. Newman Said . "[It] tends to be together with broadcasters such as ITV, The Most trustworthy.

"But of course, we have seen that erode, especially with a very vocal minority on both The Left and the right, in The Last few years have trusted The Bbc less. "

The Decline is particularly marked in the on the political left. Since the 2019 election, The Left Saw their Trust in The News scuba diving is only 15%, The Report Found .



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Source of news: bbc.com

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