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JMIR Infodemiology, 2021 BackgroundAn infodemic is an overflow of information of varying quality that surges across digital and physical environments during an acute public health event.
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Glimpsing Indonesia’s Social Media Discourse: What Goes on During the Covid-19 Infodemic
REiLA, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an "infodemic", of false and true information circulating on social media platforms. This phenomenon has posed various challenges in implementing disaster management programs to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, both ...
Rafi Ronny +2 more
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The Impact of Government Social Media Information Quality on Public Panic During the Infodemic
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the first global “Infodemic” in the era of social media. Understanding how governments deal with the negative impacts of the infodemic (e.g., public panic) has become a priority.
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Infodemics and infodemiology: a short history, a long future
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021 An infodemic is defined as an overabundance of information some accurate and some not occurring during an epidemic. This paper describes the characteristics of an infodemic, which combines an inordinately high volume of information (leading to ...
Chris Zielinski
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The “Infodemic” of COVID‐19 [PDF]
Arthritis & Rheumatology, 2020 Some in the medical publishing world have observed an "infodemic" occurring alongside the pandemic. One might define an infodemic as a contagious disease infecting our information culture. As the Editors of A&R, tasked with conducting, reviewing, reporting, and translating science to the rheumatic disease community, we agree with this diagnosis. Herein,
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RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2021 The article raises the problem of the destructive impact of the infodemic phenomenon on the life of the society. In order to understand the todays infodemic the author suggests conducting a comparative analysis of the media coverage of the SARS epidemic ...
Alexander V. Zemlyanskiy
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Pandemics, infodemics and health promotion
Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2022 AbstractThe COVID‐19 pandemic and the accompanying infodemic are significant public health issues. The COVID‐19 infodemic has been prolific from early in the pandemic response, and has continued to escalate during vaccine rollout. COVID‐19 is the first pandemic in the social media era, expediting the need for effective measures to manage the high ...
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The COVID-19 social media infodemic [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 AbstractWe address the diffusion of information about the COVID-19 with a massive data analysis on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab. We analyze engagement and interest in the COVID-19 topic and provide a differential assessment on the evolution of the discourse on a global scale for each platform and their users. We fit information spreading
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PLoS ONE, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has been damaging to the lives of people all around the world. Accompanied by the pandemic is an infodemic, an abundant and uncontrolled spread of potentially harmful misinformation.
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Indian scientists tackle the infodemic [PDF]
Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 At the time that COVID-19 began to take hold in India, a group of Indian scientists came together to combat what Reeteka Sud describes as one of the most potent threats: the spread of misinformation fueling the pandemic.
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