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Vaccination is important to minimize the risk and spread of various diseases. In recent years, vaccination has been a key step in countering the COVID-19 pandemic. However, many people are skeptical about the use of vaccines for various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Aniket Deroy , Subhankar Maity

Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the late 2019, it has affected over 200 countries and billions of people worldwide. This has affected the social life of people owing to enforcements, such as "social distancing"…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Zhiwei Gao , Shuntaro Yada , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki

Public sentiment (the opinions, attitudes or feelings expressed by the public) is a factor of interest for government, as it directly influences the implementation of policies. Given the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 crisis, having…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Shihan Wang , Marijn Schraagen , Erik Tjong Kim Sang , Mehdi Dastani

The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has been accompanied by a large amount of misleading and false information about the virus, especially on social media. During the pandemic social media gained special interest as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Guillermo Romera Rodriguez , Sanjana Gautam , Andrea Tapia

The coronavirus disease, also known as the COVID-19, is an ongoing pandemic of a severe acute respiratory syndrome. The pandemic has led to the cancellation of many religious, political, and cultural events around the world. A huge number…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Abdul Muntakim Rafi , Shivang Rana , Rajwinder Kaur , Q. M. Jonathan Wu , Pooya Moradian Zadeh

As the novel coronavirus spread globally, a growing public panic was expressed over the internet. We examine the public discussion concerning COVID-19 on Twitter. We use a dataset of 67 million tweets from 12 million users collected between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Binxuan Huang , Kathleen M. Carley

Miss-information is usually adjusted to fit distinct narratives and can propagate rapidly through communities of interest, which work as echo chambers, cause reinforcement and foster confirmation bias. False beliefs, once adopted, are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-30 Rafael Prieto Curiel , Humberto González Ramírez

The Coronavirus pandemic has created complex challenges and adverse circumstances. This research discovers public sentiment amidst problematic socioeconomic consequences of the lockdown, and explores ensuing four potential sentiment…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Jim Samuel , Md. Mokhlesur Rahman , G. G. Md. Nawaz Ali , Yana Samuel , Alexander Pelaez

At the start of 2020, COVID-19 became the most urgent threat to global public health. Uniquely in recent times, governments have imposed partly voluntary, partly compulsory restrictions on the population to slow the spread of the virus. In…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Mike Thelwall , Saheeda Thelwall

Situated in the global outbreak of COVID-19, our study enriches the discussion concerning the emergent racism and xenophobia on social media. With big data extracted from Twitter, we focus on the analysis of negative sentiment reflected in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xin Pei , Deval Mehta

Previous studies have highlighted the importance of vaccination as an effective strategy to control the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. It is crucial for policymakers to have a comprehensive understanding of the public's stance towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yida Mu , Mali Jin , Kalina Bontcheva , Xingyi Song

This paper describes a large global dataset on people's discourse and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic over the Twitter platform. From 28 January 2020 to 1 June 2022, we collected and processed over 252 million Twitter posts from more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Raj Kumar Gupta , Ajay Vishwanath , Yinping Yang

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

Vaccination rates are decreasing in many areas of the world, and outbreaks of preventable diseases tend to follow in areas with particular low rates. Much research has been devoted to improving our understanding of the motivations behind…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Bjarke Mønsted , Sune Lehmann

COVID-19 represents the most severe global crisis to date whose public conversation can be studied in real time. To do so, we use a data set of over 350 million tweets and retweets posted by over 26 million English speaking Twitter users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Francesco Durazzi , Martin Müller , Marcel Salathé , Daniel Remondini

The recent SARS-COV-2 virus outbreak has created an unprecedented global health crisis! The disease is showing alarming trends with the number of people getting infected with this disease, new cases and death rate are all highlighting the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Sujit Bhattacharya , Shubham Singh

Vaccine adverse events have been presumed to be a relatively objective measure that is immune to political polarization. The real-world data, however, shows the correlation between presidential disapproval ratings and the subjective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 TaeYoung Kang , Hanbin Lee

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to bring up various topics discussed or debated on social media. In order to explore the impact of pandemics on people's lives, it is crucial to understand the public's concerns and attitudes towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Peilin Zhou , Zeqiang Wang , Dading Chong , Zhijiang Guo , Yining Hua , Zichang Su , Zhiyang Teng , Jiageng Wu , Jie Yang

The sudden and rapid spread of the COVID_19 pandemic with its terrible consequences has put the management of governments and the various world institutions into a crisis. They have been subjected to a considerable economic effort to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Rehana Naz , Andrew Omame , Mariano Torrisi

Although billions of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, too many people remain hesitant. Misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, propagating on social media, is believed to drive hesitancy towards vaccination. However, exposure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Maxwell Weinzierl , Sanda Harabagiu