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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global health crisis that affects many aspects of human lives. In the absence of vaccines and antivirals, several behavioural change and policy initiatives, such as physical distancing, have been…

Social media platforms facilitate mankind a data-driven world by enabling billions of people to share their thoughts and activities ubiquitously. This huge collection of data, if analysed properly, can provide useful insights into people's…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Thirunavukarasu Balasubramaniam , Richi Nayak , Md Abul Bashar

A drastic rise in potentially life-threatening misinformation has been a by-product of the COVID-19 pandemic. Computational support to identify false information within the massive body of data on the topic is crucial to prevent harm.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Jan Philip Wahle , Nischal Ashok , Terry Ruas , Norman Meuschke , Tirthankar Ghosal , Bela Gipp

The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 resulted in large volumes of data shared on different social media platforms. Analyzing and visualizing these data is doubtlessly essential to having a deep understanding of the pandemic's impacts on people's…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Omar Abdel Wahab , Ali Mustafa , André Bertrand Abisseck Bamatakina

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, has raised a calamitous situation all over the world and has become one of the most acute and severe ailments in the past hundred years. The prevalence rate of COVID-19 is rapidly rising every day…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Md. Milon Islam , Fakhri Karray , Reda Alhajj , Jia Zeng

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

The COVID-19 pandemic brought upon a massive wave of disinformation, exacerbating polarization in the increasingly divided landscape of online discourse. In this context, popular social media users play a major role, as they have the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Giacomo De Nicola , Victor H. Tuekam Mambou , Göran Kauermann

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

Misinformation of COVID-19 is prevalent on social media as the pandemic unfolds, and the associated risks are extremely high. Thus, it is critical to detect and combat such misinformation. Recently, deep learning models using natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jackie Ayoub , X. Jessie Yang , Feng Zhou

COVID-19 has affected the world economy and the daily life routine of almost everyone. It has been a hot topic on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. These social media platforms enable users to share information with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Pervaiz Iqbal Khan , Imran Razzak , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

Purpose: Public attitudes towards COVID-19 and social distancing are critical in reducing its spread. It is therefore important to understand public reactions and information dissemination in all major forms, including on social media. This…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mike Thelwall , Saheeda Thelwall

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic in March 2020, there have been over 600 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than six million deaths as of October 2022. The relationship between the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Hanjia Lyu , Arsal Imtiaz , Yufei Zhao , Jiebo Luo

Pandemic(epidemic) modeling, aiming at disease spreading analysis, has always been a popular research topic especially following the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019. Some representative models including SIR-based deep learning prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Danfeng Guo , Zijie Huang , Junheng Hao , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang , Demetri Terzopoulos

The emergence of COVID-19 has necessitated many efforts by the scientific community for its proper management. An urgent clinical reaction is required in the face of the unending devastation being caused by the pandemic. These efforts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Parsa Sarosh , Shabir A. Parah , Romany F Mansur , G. M. Bhat

Background. After a year and half and over 4 million deaths, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be widespread, and its related topics continue to dominate the global media. Although COVID-19 diagnoses have been well monitored, neither the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Guangqing Chi , Junjun Yin , M. Luke Smith , Yosef Bodovski

The outbreak of covid-19 started many months ago, the reported origin was in Wuhan Market, China. Fastly, this virus was propagated to other countries because the access to international travels is affordable and many countries have a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Josimar E. Chire-Saire

The purpose of this case study is to leverage the concepts and tools presented in the preceding chapters and apply them in a real world social cybersecurity context. With the COVID-19 pandemic emerging as a defining event of the 21st…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-25 David M. Beskow , Kathleen M. Carley

Billions of people across the globe have been using social media platforms in their local languages to voice their opinions about the various topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several organizations, including the World Health…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Rabin Adhikari , Safal Thapaliya , Nirajan Basnet , Samip Poudel , Aman Shakya , Bishesh Khanal

Misinformation during pandemic situations like COVID-19 is growing rapidly on social media and other platforms. This expeditious growth of misinformation creates adverse effects on the people living in the society. Researchers are trying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-05 A. R. Sana Ullah , Anupam Das , Anik Das , Muhammad Ashad Kabir , Kai Shu