Autor segons l'article: Pulido CM; Villarejo-Carballido B; Redondo-Sama G; Gómez A
Departament: Pedagogia
Autor/s de la URV: Gomez Gonzalez, Aitor / Redondo Sama, Gisela
Paraules clau: Social media analytics Social media Misinformation Infodemic Ebola Covid-19 Coronavirus Communicative content analysis
Resum: © The Author(s) 2020. The World Health Organization has not only signaled the health risks of COVID-19, but also labeled the situation as infodemic, due to the amount of information, true and false, circulating around this topic. Research shows that, in social media, falsehood is shared far more than evidence-based information. However, there is less research analyzing the circulation of false and evidence-based information during health emergencies. Thus, the present study aims at shedding new light on the type of tweets that circulated on Twitter around the COVID-19 outbreak for two days, in order to analyze how false and true information was shared. To that end, 1000 tweets have been analyzed. Results show that false information is tweeted more but retweeted less than science-based evidence or fact-checking tweets, while science-based evidence and fact-checking tweets capture more engagement than mere facts. These findings bring relevant insights to inform public health policies.
Àrees temàtiques: Sociology and political science Sociology Sociologia i política Sociología Serviço social Saúde coletiva Interdisciplinar Historia Direito Ciencias sociales
Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Adreça de correu electrònic de l'autor: gisela.redondo@urv.cat aitor.gomez@urv.cat
Identificador de l'autor: 0000-0003-2240-7795 0000-0001-8994-9885
Data d'alta del registre: 2023-02-19
Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enllaç font original: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0268580920914755
Referència a l'article segons font original: International Sociology. 35 (0268580920914755): 377-392
Referència de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Pulido CM; Villarejo-Carballido B; Redondo-Sama G; Gómez A (2020). COVID-19 infodemic: More retweets for science-based information on coronavirus than for false information. International Sociology, 35(0268580920914755), 377-392. DOI: 10.1177/0268580920914755
URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
DOI de l'article: 10.1177/0268580920914755
Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Any de publicació de la revista: 2020
Tipus de publicació: Journal Publications
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