This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the flows of communication between politicians, journalists and citizens.
Academic Research
Elite rhetoric can undermine democratic norms
Democratic stability depends on citizens on the losing side accepting election outcomes.
Spread of Misinformation About Face Masks and COVID-19 by Automated Software on Facebook
The dangers of misinformation spreading on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic are known.
Factual Corrections Eliminate False Beliefs About COVID-19 Vaccines
The spread of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines threatens to prolong the pandemic, with prior evidence indicating that exposure to misinformation has negative effects on intent to take the...
Where Have All the Data Gone? A Critical Reflection on Academic Digital Research in the Post-API Age
When the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica (CA) scandal burst into the headlines in March 2018, it cast a spotlight on tech companies’ uses and abuses of personal data (Cadwalladr & Graham-Harrison,...
Debunking the Misinfodemic: Coronavirus Social Media Contains More, Not Less, Credible Content
Several high-profile sources have focused worldwide attention on the dangers of misinformation about COVID.
Citizens are asked to buy, and asked to consider to buy, goods of all sizes and all prices, nearly all of the time.
Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases
In this paper researchers show that standard machine learning can acquire stereotyped biases from textual data that reflect everyday human culture. The general idea that text corpora capture...
Does Elite Rhetoric Undermine Democratic Norms?
In this paper, the researchers test the extent to which elite rhetoric can erode democratic norms in the contemporary United States.
A Multi-Modal Method for Satire Detection using Textual and Visual Cues
Satire is a literary device that writers employ to mock or ridicule a person, group, or ideology by passing judgment on them for a cultural transgression or poor social behavior.
Validating Social Media Monitoring: Statistical Pitfalls and Opportunities from Public Opinion
Social media are a promising new data source for real-world behavioral monitoring.
The intentional spread of falsehoods challenge the basic norms and values upon which institutional legitimacy and political stability depend.
Facebook connects billions of people globally, enabling individuals to share information on pages organized around common interests.
Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter
One of the greatest risks to human health comes from the deluge of misleading, conflicting, and manipulated information currently available online
In February 2020, the World Health Organization announced an ‘infodemic’ that accompanied the global pandemic of COVID-19.
The COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic Reflects Uncertainty and State-Sponsored Propaganda
Significant attention has been devoted to determining the credibility of online misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic on social media.
Content analysis of Persian/Farsi Tweets during COVID-19 pandemic in Iran using NLP
As COVID-19 has rapidly and widely spread in the United States and globally, this now pandemic is shaking up all aspects of daily life in all countries affected in an unforeseen manner.
Misinformation on the Facebook News Feed: Experimental Evidence
The proliferation of misinformation and fake news represents a pressing policy issue, with potentially deleterious consequences for democracies around the world.
Detecting East Asian Prejudice on Social Media
The outbreak of COVID-19 has raised concerns about the spread of Sinophobia and other forms of East Asian prejudice across the world.
Pro-Russian Biases in Anti-Chinese Tweets about the Novel Coronavirus
The recent COVID-19 pandemic, which was first detected in Wuhan, China, has been linked to increased anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States.