Soya Miyoshi,Marko Jusup,Petter Holme
Soya Miyoshi
The decision of whether or not to vaccinate is a complex one. It involves the contribution both to a social good-herd immunity-and to one's own well-being. It is informed by social influence, personal experience, education, and mass media. ...
Understanding high- and low-quality URL Sharing on COVID-19 Twitter streams [0.03%]
理解有关COVID-19的高质量和低质量URL在Twitter上的传播机制
Lisa Singh,Leticia Bode,Ceren Budak et al.
Lisa Singh et al.
This article investigates the prevalence of high and low quality URLs shared on Twitter when users discuss COVID-19. We distinguish between high quality health sources, traditional news sources, and low quality misinformation sources. We fi...
Misinformation, manipulation, and abuse on social media in the era of COVID-19 [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情下的社交媒体虚假信息、误导和滥用行为
Emilio Ferrara,Stefano Cresci,Luca Luceri
Emilio Ferrara
The COVID-19 pandemic represented an unprecedented setting for the spread of online misinformation, manipulation, and abuse, with the potential to cause dramatic real-world consequences. The aim of this special issue was to collect contribu...
Vindication, virtue, and vitriol: A study of online engagement and abuse toward British MPs during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
英国议员新冠疫情期间的网络支持与谩骂研究：正名、美德与尖酸毒舌
Tracie Farrell,Genevieve Gorrell,Kalina Bontcheva
Tracie Farrell
COVID-19 has given rise to a lot of malicious content online, including hate speech, online abuse, and misinformation. British MPs have also received abuse and hate on social media during this time. To understand and contextualise the level...
Influencing overseas Chinese by tweets: text-images as the key tactic of Chinese propaganda [0.03%]
推文影响海外华人：图文是中共文宣的关键战术
Austin Horng-En Wang,Mei-Chun Lee,Min-Hsuan Wu et al.
Austin Horng-En Wang et al.
The literature on China's social media foreign propaganda mostly focuses on text-format contents in English, which may miss the real target and the tool for analysis. In this article, we traced 1256 Twitter accounts echoing China government...
Partisan public health: how does political ideology influence support for COVID-19 related misinformation? [0.03%]
党派公共卫生：政治意识形态如何影响人们对新冠肺炎相关虚假信息的支持？
Nicholas Francis Havey
Nicholas Francis Havey
This study analyzes over 4000 tweets related to six misinformation topics about the COVID-19 pandemic: the use of hydroxychloroquine as treatment, the use of bleach as a preventative measure, Bill Gates intentionally causing the virus, the ...
Conspiracy in the time of corona: automatic detection of emerging COVID-19 conspiracy theories in social media and the news [0.03%]
新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情下的阴谋论：社交媒体和新闻中有关新冠肺炎的新兴阴谋理论的自动检测技术研究
Shadi Shahsavari,Pavan Holur,Tianyi Wang et al.
Shadi Shahsavari et al.
Rumors and conspiracy theories thrive in environments of low confidence and low trust. Consequently, it is not surprising that ones related to the COVID-19 pandemic are proliferating given the lack of scientific consensus on the virus's spr...
Around the world in 60 days: an exploratory study of impact of COVID-19 on online global news sentiment [0.03%]
全球新闻在线情绪的新冠疫情冲击式实验研究——六十二日环球记行
Amartya Chakraborty,Sunanda Bose
Amartya Chakraborty
The world is going through an unprecedented crisis due to COVID-19 breakout, and people all over the world are forced to stay indoors for safety. In such a situation, the rise and fall of the number of affected cases or deaths has turned in...
Bots and online hate during the COVID-19 pandemic: case studies in the United States and the Philippines [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情期间的网络仇恨与机器人账号：美国和菲律宾的案例研究
Joshua Uyheng,Kathleen M Carley
Joshua Uyheng
Online hate speech represents a serious problem exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Although often anchored in real-world social divisions, hate speech in cyberspace may also be fueled inorganically by inauthentic actors like soci...
Shohei Doi,Takayuki Mizuno,Naoya Fujiwara
Shohei Doi
Timely estimation of the distribution of socioeconomic attributes and their movement is crucial for academic as well as administrative and marketing purposes. In this study, assuming personal attributes affect human behavior and movement, w...