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We study observed incidence of self-disclosure in a large dataset of Tweets representing user-led English-language conversation about the Coronavirus pandemic. Using an unsupervised approach to detect voluntary disclosure of personal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Taylor Blose , Prasanna Umar , Anna Squicciarini , Sarah Rajtmajer

The worldwide spread of COVID-19 has prompted extensive online discussions, creating an `infodemic' on social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Twitter. However, the information shared on these platforms is prone to be unreliable and/or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-20 R. Tallal Javed , Mirza Elaaf Shuja , Muhammad Usama , Junaid Qadir , Waleed Iqbal , Gareth Tyson , Ignacio Castro , Kiran Garimella

Over the past few months, the outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been expanding over the world. A reliable and accurate dataset of the cases is vital for scientists to conduct related research and for policy-makers to make…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-01 Guannan Wang , Zhiling Gu , Xinyi Li , Shan Yu , Myungjin Kim , Yueying Wang , Lei Gao , Li Wang

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

The COVID-19 pandemic has created many problems, especially in people's social lives. There has been increasing isolation and economic hardships since the beginning of the pandemic for people all over the world. Quarantines and lockdowns…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Dino Husnic , Stefan Cobeli , Shweta Yadav

When people notice something unusual, they discuss it on social media. They leave traces of their emotions via text expressions. A systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of social media data across time and space can give…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Md Abul Bashar , Richi Nayak , Thirunavukarasu Balasubramaniam

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is the most talked topic in social media platforms in 2020. People are using social media such as Twitter to express their opinion and share information on a number of issues related to the COVID-19…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Mohammed Emtiaz Ahmed , Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin , Farah Naz Chowdhury

Amidst COVID-19 misinformation spreading, social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter rolled out design interventions, including banners linking to authoritative resources and more specific "false information" labels. In late March…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Christine Geeng , Tiona Francisco , Jevin West , Franziska Roesner

While COVID-19 has impacted humans for a long time, people search the web for pandemic-related information, causing anxiety. From a theoretic perspective, previous studies have confirmed that the number of COVID-19 cases can cause negative…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Linjiang Guo , Zijian Feng , Yuxue Chi , Mingzhu Wang , Yijun Liu

Currently, novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a big threat to global health. The rapid spread of the virus has created pandemic, and countries all over the world are struggling with a surge in COVID-19 infected cases. There are no…

Applications · Statistics 2020-09-08 Se Yoon Lee , Bowen Lei , Bani K. Mallick

Social media and messaging platforms have become a support system for those in fear of COVID-19 while, at the same time, becoming the root cause of spreading hate, inaccurate representations, and false realities. As technology has morphed…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Afsana Rahman , Ruhul Amin

The COVID-19 pandemic requires a fast response from researchers to help address biological, medical and public health issues to minimize its impact. In this rapidly evolving context, scholars, professionals and the public may need to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Kayvan Kousha , Mike Thelwall

Twitter is becoming an increasingly important platform for disseminating information during crisis situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Effective crisis communication on Twitter can shape the public perception of the crisis, influence…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Gautam Kishore Shahi , Sünje Clausen , Stefan Stieglitz

The global world is crossing a pandemic situation where this is a catastrophic outbreak of Respiratory Syndrome recognized as COVID-19. This is a global threat all over the 212 countries that people every day meet with mighty situations. On…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Md. Mahadi Hasan Sany , Mumenunnesa Keya , Sharun Akter Khushbu , Akm Shahariar Azad Rabby , Abu Kaisar Mohammad Masum

The spreading COVID-19 misinformation over social media already draws the attention of many researchers. According to Google Scholar, about 26000 COVID-19 related misinformation studies have been published to date. Most of these studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Ye Jiang , Xingyi Song , Carolina Scarton , Ahmet Aker , Kalina Bontcheva

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of dashboards for providing critical real-time information. In order to enable people to obtain information in time and to understand complex statistical data, many developers have…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Xinyan Li , Han Wang , Chunyang Chen , John Grundy

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

COVID-19, as a global health crisis, has triggered the fear emotion with unprecedented intensity. Besides the fear of getting infected, the outbreak of COVID-19 also created significant disruptions in people's daily life and thus evoked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Yuchen Chai , Juan Palacios , Jianghao Wang , Yichun Fan , Siqi Zheng

We release our COVID-19 news dataset, containing more than 10,000 links to news articles related to the Coronavirus pandemic published in the Swiss media since early January 2020. This collection can prove beneficial in mining and analysis…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Alireza Ghasemi , Amina Chebira

The Coronavirus, also known as the COVID-19 virus, has emerged in Wuhan China since late November 2019. Since that time, it has been spreading at large-scale until today all around the world. It is currently recognized as the world's most…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-01 Anis Koubaa