On the dynamics emerging from pandemics and infodemics

Leitner, Stephan

doi:10.1007/s11299-020-00256-y

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“…Conspiracy theories emerge as an attempt to describe hard to explain and unexpected events, into which group COVID-19 fits very well. It represents a typical example of the so-called dread risk—low-probability and high-consequence catastrophic event difficult to control ( Deerberg-Wittram & Knothe, 2020 ; Leitner, 2021 ; Slovic, 1987 ). It struck unexpectedly, has already resulted in a large number of deaths and illnesses, can hardly be controlled, and has lasting behavioral consequences.…”

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COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter

Erokhin

Yosipof

Komendantova

2022

Social Media + Society

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was an unexpected event and resulted in catastrophic consequences with long-lasting behavioral effects. People began to seek explanations for different aspects of COVID-19 and resorted to conspiracy narratives. The objective of this article is to analyze the changes on the discussion of different COVID-19 conspiracy theories throughout the pandemic on Twitter. We have collected a data set of 1.269 million tweets associated with the discussion on conspiracy theories between January 2020 and November 2021. The data set includes tweets related to eight conspiracy theories: the 5G, Big Pharma, Bill Gates, biological weapon, exaggeration, FilmYourHospital, genetically modified organism (GMO), and the vaccines conspiracy. The analysis highlights several behaviors in the discussion of conspiracy theories and allows categorizing them into four groups. The first group are conspiracy theories that peaked at the beginning of the pandemic and sharply declined afterwards, including the 5G and FilmYourHospital conspiracies. The second group associated with the Big Pharma and vaccination-related conspiracy whose role increased as the pandemic progressed. The third are conspiracies that remained persistent throughout the pandemic such as exaggeration and Bill Gates conspiracies. The fourth are those that had multiple peaks at different times of the pandemic including the GMO and biological weapon conspiracies. In addition, the number of COVID-19 new cases was found to be a significant predictor for the next week tweet frequency for most of the conspiracies.

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COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter

Erokhin

Yosipof

Komendantova

2022

Social Media + Society

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“…Ese último y la posibilidad de trasmisión de la información en ámbitos globales lleva implícita la posibilidad de que una información incierta se convierta en una verdad tendenciosa y, esta, compartida de manera descuidada genere un virus comunicacional, es decir una información pandémica, que agudiza el momento situacional de los individuos debido a los efectos colaterales que provoca, tanto a nivel individual como a nivel colectivo en la sociedad (Cf. Leitner, 2020).…”

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Bioética, Pandemia Y Justicia Social

León¹,

Mosquera²,

Arbeláez-Soto³

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“…They also discovered an extraordinary activity estimated at 40.4% from online messages during this epidemic refers to automated agent "bots". Leitner (2020) discussed behavioral, social, and economic dynamics related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The researcher analyzed Twitter content specifically disinformation posts on it.…”

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Infodemic on Social Media : An analysis of Egyptians’ information behaviors during COVID-19

الرخ¹

2021

مجلة بحوث کلیة الآداب . جامعة المنوفیة

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The purpose of this study is to investigate Egyptians' information behaviors on social media during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The study adopted a survey method approach. The data were collected from a random sample of 225 respondents, focuses on how Egyptians deal with misleading information and fake news. The findings showed that 83.6% of respondents have faced fake news about the COVID-19 pandemic on social media. Besides, their information consumption rates were at a high peak, especially on the Facebook platform. The respondents revealed positive behaviors towards fake news, but their activities average very high, especially from unspecialized people, which may create an Infodemic. The study also investigated the differences in behaviors between the population using Person' Chi-Square test. The findings showed that males have a positive behavior towards the information they share better than females. However, the findings reported that there was a low activity of people working in medical and information sectors, the study considered this more awareness from their side as they know how valuable information is. The value of the study lies in being the first study that provides deep insight into Egyptians' information behaviors on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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On the dynamics emerging from pandemics and infodemics

Cited by 10 publications

References 44 publications

COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter

COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter

Bioética, Pandemia Y Justicia Social

Infodemic on Social Media : An analysis of Egyptians’ information behaviors during COVID-19

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