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This study examines how public discourse around COVID-19 unfolded on Twitter through the lens of crisis communication and digital publics. Analyzing over 275,000 tweets involving the CDC, we identify 16 distinct discourse clusters shaped by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Tawfiq Ammari , Anna Gutowska , Jacob Ziff , Casey Randazzo , Harihan Subramonyam

Social media platforms provide actionable information during crises and pandemic outbreaks. The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a chronic public health crisis worldwide, with experts considering vaccines as the ultimate prevention to achieve…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Pardeep Singh , Rabindra Lamsal , Monika , Satish Chand , Bhawna Shishodia

With the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus, the activity of users on Twitter has significantly increased. Some studies have investigated the hot topics of tweets in this period; however, little attention has been paid to presenting and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Faezeh Azizi , Hamed Vahdat-Nejad , Hamideh Hajiabadi , Mohammad Hossein Khosravi

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a public health emergency of international concern affecting 201 countries and territories around the globe. As of April 4, 2020, it has caused a pandemic outbreak with more than 11,16,643…

Applications · Statistics 2022-07-18 Tanujit Chakraborty , Indrajit Ghosh

In the age of social media, disasters and epidemics usher not only a devastation and affliction in the physical world, but also prompt a deluge of information, opinions, prognoses and advice to billions of internet users. The coronavirus…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yelena Mejova , Kyriaki Kalimeri

Public information search data from sources such as Google Trends affords researchers a perspective on what society does not know, or what society wants to find out prompted by, or in response to, developments in societal communication and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Benjamin Lucas , Brendan Elliot , Todd Landman

There has been a huge spike in the usage of social media platforms during the COVID-19 lockdowns. These lockdown periods have resulted in a set of new cybercrimes, thereby allowing attackers to victimise social media users with a range of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bibhas Sharma , Ishan Karunanayake , Rahat Masood , Muhammad Ikram

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented impact across the globe. We have also witnessed millions of people with increased mental health issues, such as depression, stress, worry, fear, disgust, sadness, and anxiety, which have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Jianlong Zhou , Hamad Zogan , Shuiqiao Yang , Shoaib Jameel , Guandong Xu , Fang Chen

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly affected the political scene worldwide and the introduction of new terminology and public opinions regarding the virus has further polarized partisan stances. Using a collection of tweets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Cindy Kim , Daniela Puchall , Jiangyi Liang , Jiwon Kim

COVID-19's impact has surpassed from personal and global health to our social life. In terms of digital presence, it is speculated that during pandemic, there has been a significant rise in cyberbullying. In this paper, we have examined the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Sayar Karmakar , Sanchari Das

The new coronavirus outbreak has been officially declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. To grapple with the rapid spread of this ongoing pandemic, most countries have banned indoor and outdoor gatherings and ordered…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Jean Marie Tshimula , Belkacem Chikhaoui , Shengrui Wang

Over the past few months, there were huge numbers of circulating tweets and discussions about Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Arab region. It is important for policy makers and many people to identify types of shared tweets to better…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Hamdy Mubarak , Sabit Hassan

The Covid-19 virus has been one of the most discussed topics on social networks in 2020 and 2021 and has affected the classic educational paradigm, worldwide. In this research, many tweets related to the Covid-19 virus and education are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Mohadese Jamalian , Hamed Vahdat-Nejad , Hamideh Hajiabadi

Research into COVID-19 has been rapidly evolving since the onset of the pandemic. This occasionally results in contradictory recommendations by credible sources of scientific opinion, public health authorities, and medical professionals. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Salwa Alamir , Armineh Nourbakhsh , Cecilia Tilli , Sameena Shah , Manuela Veloso

This paper aims at providing the summary of the Global Data Science Project (GDSC) for COVID-19. as on May 31 2020. COVID-19 has largely impacted on our societies through both direct and indirect effects transmitted by the policy measures…

Social media is recognized as an important source for deriving insights into public opinion dynamics and social impacts due to the vast textual data generated daily and the 'unconstrained' behavior of people interacting on these platforms.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zeqiang Wang , Jiageng Wu , Yuqi Wang , Wei Wang , Jie Yang , Jon Johnson , Nishanth Sastry , Suparna De

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic triggers infodemic over online social media, which significantly impacts public health around the world, both physically and psychologically. In this paper, we study the impact of the pandemic on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Ninghan Chen , Xihui Chen , Zhiqiang Zhong , Jun Pang

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a rapid response from governments and researchers worldwide. As of late 2023, over millions have died as a result of COVID-19, with many COVID-19 survivors going on to experience long-term effects…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Yo Yehudi , Lukas Hughes-Noehrer , Carole Goble , Caroline Jay

Epidemiological models, traditionally used to study disease spread, can effectively analyze mob behavior on social media by treating ideas, sentiments, or behaviors as ``contagions" that propagate through user networks. In this research, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-15 Ahmed AL-Taweel , Saqib Hussain , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

The year 2020 will be remembered for two events of global significance: the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. In this chapter, we summarize recent studies using large public Twitter data sets on these issues. We have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Ho-Chun Herbert Chang , Emily Chen , Meiqing Zhang , Goran Muric , Emilio Ferrara