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Although multiple COVID-19 vaccines have been available for several months now, vaccine hesitancy continues to be at high levels in the United States. In part, the issue has also become politicized, especially since the presidential…

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The Coronavirus pandemic has affected the normal course of life. People around the world have taken to social media to express their opinions and general emotions regarding this phenomenon that has taken over the world by storm. The social…

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With the increasing trend in the topic of migration in Europe, the public is now more engaged in expressing their opinions through various platforms such as Twitter. Understanding the online discourses is therefore essential to capture the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yiyi Chen , Harald Sack , Mehwish Alam

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 emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a significant rise in the spread of misinformation on online platforms such as Twitter. Oftentimes this growth is blamed on the idea of the "echo chamber." However, the behavior said to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Caleb Stam , Emily Saldanha , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Anurag Acharya

As of July 31, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has over 17 million reported cases, causing more than 667,000 deaths. Countries irrespective of economic status have succumbed to this pandemic. Many aspects of the lives, including health,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Josimar Chire-Saire , Khalid Mahmood

People are likely to engage in collective behaviour online during extreme events, such as the COVID-19 crisis, to express their awareness, actions and concerns. Hong Kong has implemented stringent public health and social measures (PHSMs)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zhanwei Du , Xiao Zhang , Lin Wang , Sidan Yao , Yuan Bai , Qi Tan , Xiaoke Xu , Sen Pei , Jingyi Xiao , Tim K. Tsang , Qiuyan Liao , Eric Lau , Peng Wu , Chao Gao , Benjamin J Cowling

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial damage to global health. Even though three years have passed, the world continues to struggle with the virus. Concerns are growing about the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of infected…

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In late 2019, the gravest pandemic in a century began spreading across the world. A state of uncertainty related to what has become known as SARS-CoV-2 has since fueled conspiracy narratives on social media about the origin, transmission…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Morteza Shahrezaye , Miriam Meckel , Léa Steinacker , Viktor Suter

As COVID-19 sweeps the globe, outcomes depend on effective relationships between the public and decision-makers. In the UK there were uncivil tweets to MPs about perceived UK tardiness to go into lockdown. The pandemic has led to increased…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Genevieve Gorrell , Tracie Farrell , Kalina Bontcheva

Investigating and classifying sentiments of social media users towards an item, situation, and system are very popular among the researchers. However, they rarely discuss the underlying socioeconomic factor associations for such sentiments.…

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The spread of misinformation, conspiracy, and questionable content and information manipulation by foreign adversaries on social media has surged along with the COVID-19 pandemic. Such malicious cyber-enabled actions may cause increasing…

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, people started to discuss about pandemic-related topics on social media. On subreddit \textit{r/COVID19positive}, a number of topics are discussed or being shared, including experience of those who got a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Yuhan Liu , Yuhan Gao , Zhifan Nan , Long Chen

News creation and consumption has been changing since the advent of social media. An estimated 2.95 billion people in 2019 used social media worldwide. The widespread of the Coronavirus COVID-19 resulted with a tsunami of social media. Most…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Azzam Mourad , Ali Srour , Haidar Harmanani , Cathia Jenainatiy , Mohamad Arafeh

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

Timely access to accurate information is crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prompted by key stakeholders' cautioning against an "infodemic", we study information sharing on Twitter from January through May 2020. We observe an overall…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Kristina Gligorić , Manoel Horta Ribeiro , Martin Müller , Olesia Altunina , Maxime Peyrard , Marcel Salathé , Giovanni Colavizza , Robert West

Technology is uniquely positioned to help us analyze large amounts of information to provide valuable insight during widespread public health concerns, like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, information technology companies like Apple…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Jayati Dev

The COVID-19 epidemic has had a great impact on social media conversation, especially on sites like Twitter, which has emerged as a hub for public reaction and information sharing. This paper deals by analyzing a vast dataset of Twitter…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Nikhil Kumar Rajput , Bhavya Ahuja Grover , Vipin Kumar Rathi , Riya Bansal

The global spread of COVID-19 has caused pandemics to be widely discussed. This is evident in the large number of scientific articles and the amount of user-generated content on social media. This paper aims to compare academic…

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