Logarithmic vs. Linear Visualizations of COVID-19 Cases Do Not Affect Citizens’ Support for Confinement

Sevi, Semra; Aviña, Marco Mendoza; Péloquin-Skulski, Gabrielle; Heisbourg, Emmanuel; Vegas, Paola; Coulombe, Maxime; Arel‐Bundock, Vincent; Loewen, Peter John; Blais, André

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“…Analysis of these interactions is important since there is evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on government support (Bol et al, 2020 ). The Canadian political science community wasted no time in analyzing the COVID-19 pandemic, and a number of excellent studies have been published (Sevi et al, 2020 ; Malloy, 2020 ; Pickup et al, 2020 ; Miller, 2020a , 2020b ; van der Linden and Savoie, 2020 ; Motta et al, 2020 ). All of these studies have emphasized the importance of the COVID-19 pandemic to the Canadian political system and society.…”

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Twitter Followers of Canadian Political and Health Authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Are Their Activity and Interests?

Haman

2021

Can J Pol Sci

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I examined the use of Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic to find out how many Twitter users started to follow relevant Canadian political and health authorities, and I investigated their activity and interests. To this end, I analyzed 398,037 Twitter accounts. The results reveal that the Twitter accounts of relevant authorities gained a significant number of new Twitter followers during the pandemic. The Twitter users who joined during the pandemic were rather passive; they tweeted and liked fewer tweets than Twitter users who registered in the months prior to the pandemic. They also chose to follow Twitter accounts predominantly related to news, politics and governmental agencies. These findings suggest that during the pandemic, numerous information-seeking citizens joined Twitter for the purpose of obtaining information about public health matters, which in turn suggests that authorities should incorporate Twitter into their information dissemination tools, especially during emergencies, to meet the public demand for information.

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Twitter Followers of Canadian Political and Health Authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Are Their Activity and Interests?

Haman

2021

Can J Pol Sci

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“…Other behavioural and attitudinal studies include Ryan Briggs's (2020) estimates of local back-to-work expectations; Joanne Miller's (2020a, 2020b) analyses of COVID-19 conspiracy theories; Laura French Bourgeois et al (2020) on COVID-19 behaviour and civic duty; and Matt Motta et al's (2020) study of right-wing media consumption and public health beliefs. Finally, pandemic framing and framing effects were explored at the individual level by Sevi et al (2020) and in Canadian media outputs by Poirier et al (2020).…”

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Introduction to the COVID-19 Series

Lucas

2020

Can J Pol Sci

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How should political scientists communicate findings that are relevant to public debate or policy in the midst of a major crisis? One option, the op-ed, allows for rapid publication and broad readership but rarely permits detailed data analysis. Another option, the refereed article, allows for rigorous and refereed research, but academic publishing timelines often mean that a year or more will pass between submission and publication. Many other alternatives, such as blogs and preprints, face the same trade-off between rapid dissemination and rigorous review. The CJPS/RCSP COVID-19 research note series was an extended experiment in providing a new publication avenue for political scientists. The goal of the series was to provide scholars with an opportunity to quickly communicate relevant research findings while still permitting rigorous data analysis and peer review. Submissions to the COVID-19 series suggest that many political scientists were eager to embrace the opportunity: in just two months, we received 95 English-language submissions. 1 Of these submissions, 24 were accepted for publication and are printed in the pages below. These notes speak not only to the diverse interests of the political science community but also to the wide-ranging effects of the pandemic itself. One theme addressed by many of the COVID-19 notes is the institutional context and consequences of the pandemic. On federalism, for example, Béland et al. (2020) describe the prospects for the pandemic to serve as a critical juncture in Canadian fiscal federalism; Hanniman (2020) also addresses this theme. Paquet and Schertzer (2020) argue that the concept of "complex intergovernmental problems" helps us understand the challenges of intergovernmental policy making on COVID-19. Parliamentary institutions also received considerable attention; McDougall (2020) describes "continuity of constitutional government," Malloy (2020) traces parliament's multiple roles and purposes, and Rayment and VandenBeukel (2020) extend Malloy's analysis with data on federal and provincial legislatures. Koop et al. (2020) provide an interesting assessment of similar issues from the perspective of individual MPs themselves. Other institutional dimensions of the pandemic are treated in De Silva's (2020) analysis of human rights commissions, Macfarlane's (2020) discussion of constitutional limits on COVID-19 policies, and Puddister and Small's (2020) comparative analysis of courts. Political behaviour is a second recurring theme. One important discussion concerns the effects of partisanship on pandemic-related behaviour and attitudes.

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A Spatio-GraphNet Model for Real-time Contact Tracing of CoVID-19 Infection in Resource Limited Settings

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Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics

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Logarithmic vs. Linear Visualizations of COVID-19 Cases Do Not Affect Citizens’ Support for Confinement

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Twitter Followers of Canadian Political and Health Authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Are Their Activity and Interests?

Twitter Followers of Canadian Political and Health Authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Are Their Activity and Interests?

Introduction to the COVID-19 Series

A Spatio-GraphNet Model for Real-time Contact Tracing of CoVID-19 Infection in Resource Limited Settings

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