Using Tweets to Understand How COVID-19-Related Health Beliefs Are Affected in the Age of Social Media: Twitter Data Analysis Study.

Journal: Journal of medical Internet research
Published Date: Feb 22, 2021

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (ie, COVID-19) has given rise to a global pandemic affecting 215 countries and over 40 million people as of October 2020. Meanwhile, we are also experiencing an infodemic induced by the overabundance of information, some accurate and some inaccurate, spreading rapidly across social media platforms. Social media has arguably shifted the information acquisition and dissemination of a considerably large population of internet users toward higher interactivities.

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  • Hanyin Wang
    From the Department of Preventive Medicine (H.W., T.S., M.R.H, J.X.M, J.S.N, Y.L.), Department of Neurological Surgery (E.J.H.), and Department of Neurology (A.M.N.), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA; IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Department of Neurology and Stroke Center (A.Z., L.B.), Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy; Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (DIBINEM) (S.G.), Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
  • Yikuan Li
    Department of EECS, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
  • Meghan Hutch
    Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
  • Andrew Naidech
    Center for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 633 N St. Clair Street, Chicago, IL, 60622, USA.
  • Yuan Luo
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

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