COVID-19 infections on international celebrities: self presentation and tweeting down pandemic awareness

Mututwa, Wishes Tendayi; Matsilele, Trust

doi:10.22323/2.19050209

Cited by 28 publications

(17 citation statements)

References 25 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…With reference to moderating practices, some scholars have observed they could even strengthen conspiracy beliefs, and that banned content keeps circulating on alternative platforms (Bruns, Harrington, & Hurcombe, 2020), while others have even gone so far as to suggest, as a viable solution to counter disinformation, collaboration with platforms to imprison who spread fake news (Alvarez-Risco, 2020). Finally, although many papers focus on the role of social media in the infodemic, others have observed that they can also be used against it, for instance thanks to celebrities sharing quality information with their followers (Mututwa, 2020), or by official agencies to disseminate pandemic-related information (Liu & Tong, 2020).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Into the Belly of the Beast: The Research on Social Media and Covid-19 Misinformation in 2020

Righetti

Rossi

Marino

2021

SPIR

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this paper we present some preliminary findings from an ongoing research on a comprehensive corpus of 378 interdisciplinary studies about misinformation and COVID-19 published in 2020, focusing on the role of social media platforms in spreading and countering mis- and disinformation. We followed the PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews to collect and screen results, and a coding scheme based on methodological and substantive questions to analyze them. The preliminary results show, among others, that research on COVID-19 misinformation reproduces a well-known trend of differentiated attention to social media platforms based on both popularity among users and ease of access to data by scholars, that online survey distributed via social media has been a very popular approach, and the presence of a wide range of perspectives, and sometimes diverging point of views, on problematic information, in terms of prevalence of misinformation, countermeasures, and the role of social media communication. During the conference presentation, comprehensive results from the research will be presented.

show abstract

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Into the Belly of the Beast: The Research on Social Media and Covid-19 Misinformation in 2020

Righetti

Rossi

Marino

2021

SPIR

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Perhaps, this is the way forward in making people realize threats and motivates them to change their behaviors. Mututwa et al [26] suggested that celebrities with a significant social media impact were able to successfully counter disinfodemic and promote awareness.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Type and reliability of information about coronavirus most frequently shared by social media users

Obiała

Mańczak

et al. 2022

Health Policy and Technology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Although responsible for a considerable flow of problematic information online, research has pointed out the positive role of social media in pandemic communication (Lovari & Righetti, 2021). For instance, it has been observed that celebrities can easily reach many followers with quality information (Mututwa, 2020), and while higher levels of social media use for both social support and information seeking are associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression (Drouin et al, 2020;Gao et al, 2020;Ni et al, 2020), social media can operate as allies of the institutions in reaching people with correct information, becoming protective agents supporting psychological well-being (Liu & Tong, 2020).…”

Section: Substantive Contentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The 2020 Research on Problematic Information on the COVID19 Pandemic. A Systematic Literature Review

Righetti¹,

Rossi²,

Marino³

2021

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major turning point in scholarly attention to information-related problems, including the infodemic and fake news. The paper presents a systematic and comprehensive literature review on multidisciplinary research into problematic information around COVID-19 published in 2020, with a view to identifying the main trends from a disciplinary, methodological, and substantive perspective. We collected 862 records in English from three leading scientific databases (Scopus, Web of Science, and EBSCOhost) by searching, in the title and abstract, a set of keywords related to COVID-19 and information problems. After removing the duplicates and documents other than scientific papers published in scientific journals (such as magazine articles and letters), the three authors screened the records to retain the empirical articles which dealt more than just incidentally with the topic, ending up with 378 papers. The three coders analyzed the results and applied a number of pre-defined categories related to the disciplinary, methodological, and substantive characteristics of the papers. Analysis of frequencies and computational methods, including social network analysis and text mining, were used to analyze the data. The corpus of 378 papers published in 2020 on problematic COVID-19 information revealed considerable contributions from Medicine and Social Sciences and a disciplinarily and geographically interconnected field. Quantitative methods and especially surveys stand out as the most popular approaches, with a considerable number of more discursive papers offering expert views on pandemic-related informational problems. The main trends from a substantive perspective were conspiracy theories and their impact on norm compliance, and the attention to informational problems defined though the concept of infodemic.

show abstract

COVID-19 infections on international celebrities: self presentation and tweeting down pandemic awareness

Cited by 28 publications

References 25 publications

Into the Belly of the Beast: The Research on Social Media and Covid-19 Misinformation in 2020

Into the Belly of the Beast: The Research on Social Media and Covid-19 Misinformation in 2020

Type and reliability of information about coronavirus most frequently shared by social media users

The 2020 Research on Problematic Information on the COVID19 Pandemic. A Systematic Literature Review

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About