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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.
Shanshan Zhai +2 more
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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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Public Health and Risk Communication During COVID-19—Enhancing Psychological Needs to Promote Sustainable Behavior Change [PDF]
, 2020 Background: The current COVID-19 pandemic requires sustainable behavior change to mitigate the impact of the virus. A phenomenon which has arisen in parallel with this pandemic is an infodemic—an over-abundance of information, of which some is accurate ...
Calvo, Rafael A. +4 more
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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 ...
Becky White +4 more
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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
Cinelli M. +8 more
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The rule of truth: how fallacies can help stem the Covid-19 infodemic [PDF]
, 2021 Alongside COVID-19 as a viral pandemic, the World Health Organization was quick to declare COVID-19 an infodemic, a superabundance of online and offline information with the potential to undermine public health efforts. Here, Dr. Elinor Carmi, Dr.
Aloumpi, Myrto +2 more
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Sentiment Analysis of Long-term Social Data during the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has bringing the “infodemic” in the social media worlds. Various social platforms play a significant role in instantly acquiring the latest updates of the pandemic.
Curci, Marco +5 more
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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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Covid-19 infodemic disruption: Building resilient communities through enhanced information literacy education [PDF]
, 2021 The Covid-19 pandemic has had a worldwide impact on the population, global economy, and educational institutions. Furthermore, it has spurred the development of an infodemic, a phenomenon in which staggering amounts of information, both inaccurate and ...
Karim, Muhaimin +2 more
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Epidemiological Game-theory Dynamics of the co-evolution of Infodemic and Pandemic with Vaccination [PDF]
, 2022 COVID-19 pandemic, a highly infectious disease, has led to unprecedented health and socio-economic crisis worldwide. Accompanied by COVID-19 and its vaccination is an overabundance of misinformation promoting unhealthy practices among individuals.
Owoeye, Seyifunmi Michael
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