An Inquisitive Prospect on the Shift Toward Online Media, Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Technological Analysis

ABSTRACT

Online media plays a vital role in defining the future of tomorrow. Almost every field in the present-day is dependent on technology and online media either for procuring better outputs or for the satisfaction of end clients. In this paper, the authors have tried to bring out the various factors that led to the shift of the majority of individuals to online media, briefly discussing its impact on the economy and social factors. It leverages the facts of how the offline media got impacted not only during the days of the novel coronavirus but before as well. It has been plausibly displayed that fake word gets out quicker and more considerably than authentic news utilizing online media. A boost toward the use of E-platforms has predominantly been taken a closer look at in the middle sections of the paper. Further, the exploratory analysis fore- casts the number of online media users by 2031 and presents inquisitive visualizations on the study of various websites during, before, and after the pandemic in the later sections of the paper. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.