The COVID-19 pandemic brought widespread attention to an “infodemic” of potential health misinformation.
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Do Local Newspapers Mitigate the Effects of the Polarized National Rhetoric on COVID-19?
This analysis tests two distinct predictions regarding local newspapers’ coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Among the goals of information operations are to change the overall information environment vis-á-vis specific actors.
Framing Covid-19: Constitutional Versus Demagogic Rhetoric in Presidential Messaging
When Donald Trump was a candidate for president in 2016, his campaign rhetoric caused commentators to use a term they rarely applied to viable challengers for the country’s highest office: “...
Visualizing Paired Image Similarity in Transformer Networks
The lack of explainability or interpretability is often cited as one of the main drawbacks of deep neural networks used in computer vision and machine learning.
Efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic have been complicated by a parallel infodemic, defined as an overabundance of information, including misinformation, which occurs during a disease outbreak.
Viruses, Vaccines, and COVID-19: Explaining and Improving Risky Decision-making
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, risky decision-making has determined its trajectory, from deciding whether to socially distance or wear a mask to whether to get vaccinated.
Questioning the Yelp Effect: Mixed Methods Analysis of Web-Based Reviews of Urgent Cares
The World Health Organization has deemed antibiotic resistance, which is primarily caused by antibiotic overuse, to be one of the world's most pressing health problems.
“We Don’t Know” Means “They’re Not Sure”
The most familiar approach to handling respondent uncertainty about survey questions, the “don’t know” (DK) response, has an inconvenient feature.
Misinformation or Activism: Mapping Networked Moral Panic Through An Analysis of #SAVETHECHILDREN
When looking at the recent social-political history of America it is difficult to avoid references to QAnon, a widespread, conservative-leaning conspiracy that amalgamates numerous conspiracies into...