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Purpose: The outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is projected to have severe potential threats to university reputation. This paper aims to examine how rebuilding crisis response strategies (RCRS) will protect and sustain the university's reputations during and after emerging outbreaks of pandemic crises in the Nigerian context. Design/methodology/approach: This review paper is on the synthesis of university covid-19 related news, supported by relevant literature review on Covid-19 and university reputation, and the strength of Situational Crisis Communication Theory's (SCCT) rebuilding response strategies. However, the authors' personal experiences in investigating the trends on pandemic crises and university reputation sustainability also contributed to the study. Findings: This paper predicts that epidemics and pandemics have a potential impact on university reputation, thus, affecting good stakeholders' relationships, positive marketization, smooth functionalization, and favorable working environments. Rebuilding response strategies have the power to protect and rebuild universities' reputations during and after a pandemic crisis. Therefore, rebuilding strategies should be considered by university bodies for reputational sustainability during and after a pandemic crisis in the Nigerian context. Research limitations/implications: This review is limited to the pandemic crisis and its response strategies among Nigerian universities. While Nigerian universities reflect upon how to bring positive changes in terms of university-industry reputation following this Covid-19 pandemic, subsequent research should also consider the best possible crisis response strategy among universities to mitigate the effects of similar future pandemics crises, looking at other geographical contexts. Practical implications: This review paper serves as recommendations for Nigerian universities and policymakers, focusing on reputation sustainability during a pandemic crisis. The suggestions may help in the alleviation of and fight against an emerging pandemic-related outbreak, offers university bodies a newly enriching pandemic response strategy, and partially if not completely mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on the university's reputation.
Citizen journalism has the reputation being generalized as having a negative affiliation more than its potentials. Many attributed citizen journalism with skepticism and cynical phenomenon. This qualitative study is conducted to find out if youth citizen journalists have the same philosophy and view about the phenomenon and if they associate themselves with keyboard warriors and cyber troopers as well as the ethical aspects of journalism practices applied among youth citizen journalists in Malaysia. Nine informants from various states in Malaysia participated in the phenomenological study. The research question as to ways they separate themselves from keyboard warriors and cyber troopers in citizen journalism landscape in Malaysia Findings based on the themes emerged suggested that they highlighted the differences between them and keyboard warriors as well as cyber troopers, the challenges they faced as citizen journalists facing keyboard warriors and cyber troopers.
on university reputation? How many of these research are from Nigeria's perspective? Thus, this systematic literature review is on the synthesis of university reputation before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Method: used in this systematic literature review is the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Framework. The Findings: divulged that in the past years , out of 391,004 document results on coronaviruses related searched, only 216 document results were on university reputation from previous years of studies. During COVID-19, out of 57 document results, only a total of 4 document results were found on UR, and Italy contributed the most, followed by Egypt, Malaysia, and the UK. No African country contributed significantly to this topic. The findings established that the absence of African countries in scientific research on university reputation mirrors the state of the continent's backwardness in terms of development in numerous capacities. Again, the review paper evidenced that the concept of "University Reputation" has not been given much concern in the literature despite the numerous kinds of research conducted during COVID-19. This gap might result in global higher education issues in the future if a new wave of pandemics emerges. Consequently, the bedrock to solving humanity's problems, advanced national economy, and development emanate from reputable universities. This study has practical, contextual, academic institutional, government and policy-making, and methodological implications. Regarding practical implications, this study provides premium information on the relevance of UR to national development. The findings also contribute to the body of scientific knowledge and add to the existing literature on UR. Again, the study excites awareness on the level of research conducted before and after COVID-19 on UR and the country, subject area, journal, and paper type that contributed most towards UR research. This paper presents the first study of its kind, using a systematic literature review and comparative evaluation to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on University Reputation (UR), showing the position of Africa towards UR and its consequences. The SLR is the first to examine literature classification on UR by subject areas, the field of studies, contexts (countries), and journals. However, the search strategy was scientifically tailored and limited to the Scopus database.
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