The Pandemic of Conspiracies in the COVID-19 Age: How Twitter Reinforces Online Infodemic

Monaci, Sara

doi:10.30935/ojcmt/11203

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“…Though there have been an increase in counter-violent extremism (CVE) campaigns to curb threats of online propaganda and radicalization, there is limited evidence to measure the effectiveness of CVE online campaigns (Monaci, 2017). Law enforcement is also shifting to online spaces (Aziz & Beydoun, 2020).…”

Section: Trends In Online Radicalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Bibliometric Analysis of Radicalization through Social Media

Akram¹,

Nasar

2023

eab

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The purpose of this study is to synthesize the literature relating to radicalization on social media, a space with enhanced concerns about nurturing propaganda and conspiracies for violent extremism. Through the systematic review of 82 peer-reviewed studies related to radicalization through social media published in scholarly journals, this paper evidence the growth of robust studies on the usage of social media for radicalization. Nonetheless, the current work hardly discusses the radicalization issues through social media and reveals an increasing trend of publication from 2017 with a major contribution from the USA, Germany, and England. The thematic analysis indicated determinants of radicalization and the mitigation measures for the deradicalization of content on social media. However, the knowledge gap persists to understand the effects of radicalization in the different regional settings and further framing of content specific to target populations. Individuals must have the critical social media literacy to counteract the rising radicalization through social media. Individual users’ political interests are key factors in their radicalization such as citizens losing faith in the government and political parties. Active rather than passive searchers of violent radical material are more likely to engage in political violence. The results indicate that further research using experimental design, grounded theory, and pilot interventions may be relevant to suggest a solution to mitigate radicalization on social media.

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Section: Trends In Online Radicalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Bibliometric Analysis of Radicalization through Social Media

Akram¹,

Nasar

2023

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“…In today's context, conspiracy theories are widely propagated on social media (Enders et al 2021;Mahl, Zeng, and Schäfer 2021). Conspiracy narratives are nourished by information cascades on social media and reach a larger audience (Monaci 2021). Consequently, these false narratives tend to outperform real news in terms of popularity and audience engagement within online environments (Coninck et al 2021;Vosoughi, Roy, and Aral 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

YouNICon: YouTube’s CommuNIty of Conspiracy Videos

Liaw

Fan

Benevenuto

et al. 2023

ICWSM

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Conspiracy theories are widely propagated on social media. Among various social media services, YouTube is one of the most influential sources of news and entertainment. This paper seeks to develop a dataset, YOUNICON, to enable researchers to perform conspiracy theory detection as well as classification of videos with conspiracy theories into different topics. YOUNICON is a dataset with a large collection of videos from suspicious channels that were identified to contain conspiracy theories in a previous study. Overall, YOUNICON will enable researchers to study trends in conspiracy theories and understand how individuals can interact with the conspiracy theory producing community or channel. Our data is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7466262.

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“…As indicated above, a significant portion of U.S. residents fails to comply with COVID‐19 mitigation behaviors. Coronavirus protests are in the news headlines, #coronahoax is commonly seen trending on Twitter, and viral videos of non‐compliant behaviors seemingly appear daily (Imhoff & Lamberty, 2020; Monaci, 2021). Consumer non‐compliance has also been violent.…”

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confidence: 99%

“You can't make me do it!” A model of consumer compliance

Bharti

Gratz

Fitzgerald

2022

Journal of Consumer Affairs

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Consumer well-being often depends on compliance with service setting rules and product/service use guidelines. This issue came to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we propose and test a compliance model in the context of COVID-19 social distancing guidelines. Although COVID mitigation is politicized, we fully mediate the impact of political ideology with three constructs: (1) consumer perception that freedom is restricted, (2) complacency, and(3) perceived ethicality. We suggest specific tools that help bypass the political polarization that has occurred in the pandemic. The model can be applied to other areas in which compliance is key to consumer wellbeing, such as enforcing age-related restrictions on purchases and safety-related behaviors.

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The Pandemic of Conspiracies in the COVID-19 Age: How Twitter Reinforces Online Infodemic

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

A Bibliometric Analysis of Radicalization through Social Media

A Bibliometric Analysis of Radicalization through Social Media

YouNICon: YouTube’s CommuNIty of Conspiracy Videos

“You can't make me do it!” A model of consumer compliance

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