An Evolutionary Clustering Analysis of Social Media Content and Global Infection Rates During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This study investigates the impact of global infection rates on social media posts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study analysed over 179 million tweets posted between March 22 and April 13, 2020 and the global COVID-19 infection rates using evolutionary clustering analysis. Results showed six clusters constructed for each term type, including three-level [Formula: see text]-grams (unigrams, bigrams and trigrams). The frequent occurrences of unigrams (“COVID-19”, “virus”, “government”, “people”, etc.), bigrams (“COVID 19”, “COVID-19 cases”, “times share”, etc.) and trigrams (“COVID 19 crisis”, “things help stop” and “trying times share”) were identified. The results demonstrated that the unigram trends on Twitter were up to about two times and 54 times more common than the bigram terms and trigram terms, respectively. Unigrams like “home” or “need” also became important as these terms reflected the main concerns of people during this period. Taken together, the present findings confirm that many tweets were used to broadcast people’s prevalent topics of interest during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the results indicate that the number of COVID-19 infections had a significant effect on all clusters, being strong on 86% of clusters and moderate on 16% of clusters. The downward slope in global infection rates reflected the start of the trending of “social distancing” and “stay at home”. These findings suggest that infection rates have had a significant impact on social media posting during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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An evolutionary clustering analysis of the social media content and global infection rate during the COVID-19 pandemic (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.20866 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ibrahim Arpaci ◽

Thabet Abdeljawad ◽

Shadi Al Shehabi ◽

Ibrahim Mahariq ◽

Ahmet E. Topcu

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Infection Rate ◽

Clustering Analysis ◽

Media Content ◽

Infection Rates ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Evolutionary Clustering ◽

The Social ◽

Downward Slope ◽

Term Type

BACKGROUND COVID-19 has not only psychological but also economic and social effects and social media increased the negative effects by disseminating COVID-19 infodemic. OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate impact of the global infection rate on social media posting during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS The study analyzed 179+ million tweets collected between March 22nd and April 13th, 2020, and global COVID-19 infection rate by using evolutionary clustering analysis. RESULTS The results indicated six clusters constructed for each term type, including three-level n-grams (unigrams, bigrams, and trigrams). The frequent occurrences of unigrams (“COVID-19”, “virus”, “government”, “people”, etc.), bigrams (“COVID-19”, “COVID-19 cases”, “times share”, etc.), and trigrams (“COVID 19 crisis”, “things help stop”, “trying times share”). The results demonstrated that the unigram trends on Twitter were up to about two times and 54 times more common than bigram and trigram terms, respectively. Unigrams like “home” or “need” also became important as these terms reflected the main concerns of people during this period. Taken together, the present findings confirm that many tweets were used to broadcast people’s prevalent topics of interest during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, the results indicated that the number of COVID-19 infections has a significant impact on all clusters, being strong on 86% of clusters and moderate on 16% of clusters. The downward slope in the global infection rate reflected the start of the trending of “social distancing” and “stay at home.” CONCLUSIONS These findings suggested that infection rates have a significant impact on social media postings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Persepsi Masyarakat Terhadap Pemberlakuan Social Distancing Di Masa Pandemi Covid-19 Sebagai Implementasi Modal Sosial

Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship Journal ◽

10.35899/biej.v3i1.203 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 25-31

Author(s):

Ade Suherman ◽

Tetep Tetep ◽

Asep Supriyatna ◽

Eldi Mulyana ◽

Triani Widyanti ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Health Condition ◽

Public Perceptions ◽

Research Approach ◽

Community Group ◽

Social Distancing ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact ◽

Staying At Home ◽

At Home

The purpose of this study is to analyze and explain public perceptions of the implementation of social distancing during the pandemic as the implementation of social capital. This study was motivated by the phenomenon of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in a number of countries, including Indonesia. This condition not only affects the economic condition of a country, hinders social interaction among the community, and also has an impact on the health condition of every human being. To avoid the wider spread of Covid-19, the government was forced to adopt social distancing and physical distancing policies in the form of staying at home, working from home, studying, and worshiping at home. This research approach is descriptive qualitative. The data of this research is the impact of social distancing for the community in Tarogong Kidul District, Garut Regency. Sources of data come from several communities with a total of 50 respondents. Collecting data in this study using interview techniques, record, and continue to take notes. The results of the research can be concluded that with the implementation of social distancing in the pandemic period, at least the community can implement social capital which includes informal values or norms that are shared among members of an interrelated community group, which is based on the values of beliefs, norms and networks social and they respect each other, the development of social capital is the creation of increasingly independent groups of people who are able to participate more meaningfully. Social capital can solve citizens' problems, especially with regard to strengthening friendship, repairing and maintaining public service facilities because it has advantages and is the most appropriate, even though there are other social capital in the community.

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INDONESIAN ADOLESCENT COPING STRATEGY IN FACING COVID PANDEMIC 19: META ANALYSIS

Psikoislamedia Jurnal Psikologi ◽

10.22373/psikoislamedia.v5i2.6927 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 131

Author(s):

Syawaludin Lubis

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Coping Strategy ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Field Research ◽

Spiritual Beliefs ◽

Literature Study ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Social Distancing ◽

The Impact ◽

At Home

The Covid 19 pandemic forced all countries to adopt Social Distancing policies to prevent the spread of the virus. The perceived impact is the change in the dynamics of people's daily lives, where this change from being accustomed to socializing to having to be alone, from interacting to isolating. Teenagers are the most felt part of the impact of this Social Distancing, ranging from school at home, sports at home, gathering at home all activities done at home, this results in the onset of stress due to monotonous and boring activities. Therefore a strategy is needed to overcome the effects of the Covid Pandemic 19. This research method is a literature study, meta-analysis that is analyzing in-depth research journals related to Coping and Covid-19 Pandemic, articles-articles sourced from reputable journal journalists including Scopus including http://link.springer.com, http://seacrh.proquest.com, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com ,and http://tandfonline.com. The research results show that Coping Strategy is a way for someone to overcome the problems that occur in him, Coping is very adaptive and can be incorporated into the cultural values of each Individual such as the values of spiritual beliefs, thinking patterns and strengths that exist in yourself and the environment. The conclusion is trying to adapt the results of several studies on Coping to deal with Pandemic by combining the cultural potential that exists in Indonesia. This research suggestion is still theoretical, and can be continued in field research

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Pemberian Edukasi tentang Peran Orang Tua dalam Pencegahan COVID-19 pada Anak Pra Sekolah

JPKMI (Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat Indonesia) ◽

10.36596/jpkmi.v2i2.152 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 145-152

Author(s):

Nidatul Khofiyah ◽

Fitnaningsih Endang Cahyani

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Learning Process ◽

Health Sector ◽

Parental Anxiety ◽

Educational Activities ◽

Information Media ◽

The Government ◽

Play Group ◽

The Impact ◽

At Home

Abstrak: Berkembangnya virus corona saat ini tidak hanya berdampak di bidang kesehatan namun juga pada sektor lainnya termasuk pendidikan. Pemerintah mengeluarkan peraturan bahwa proses pendidikan dan pembelajaran dilakukan dirumah dengan pendampingan langsung oleh orang tua. Akibat dari COVID-19 ini juga dapat menyebabkan kecemasan pada berbagai pihak tidak terkecuali para orang tua. Dengan banyaknya pemberitaan mengenai COVID-19 di televisi bahkan media sosial membuat orang tua merasa cemas dan dapat menularkan kecemasan tersebut kepada anak-anak. Dampak dari COVID-19 ini dirasakan oleh semua pihak tidak terkecuali para orang tua wali siswa di Kelompok Bermain/RA Alfa Kids Purworejo. Banyak orang tua yang merasa cemas dan panik dengan adanya COVID-19 ini. Selain cemas karena takut penularan terhadap anak tetapi juga karena pandemi ini memaksa beberapa pekerjaan orang tua menjadi terkendala sehingga membuat kesulitan secara ekonomi. Oleh karena itu, pemberian edukasi pada orangtua diperlukan untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan dan mengurangi kecemasan orangtua terhadap kondisi pandemi. Metode yang digunakan Luaran yang dihasilkan adalah (1) Tersusunnya video dan booklet sebagai media informasi, (2) edukasi kepada orang tua terlaksana dengan baik via daring, (3) pemberian bantuan untuk orang tua dan guru yang terdampak pandemi COVID-19 ini terdistribusi sesuai yang membutuhkan (4) publikasi. Berdasarkan hal tersebut diharapkan pelaksanaan kegiatan pendidikan anak dirumah dapat berjalan dengan baik, anak-anak dapat menerapkan protokol kesehatan sesuai yang diharapkan.Abstract: The development of the current coronavirus has an impact not only in the health sector but also in other sectors including education. The government issued a regulation that the education and learning process is carried out at home with direct assistance by parents. The consequences of COVID-19 can also cause anxiety to various parties, including parents. With so much news about COVID-19 on television and even social media, it makes parents feel anxious and can transmit this anxiety to children. The impact of COVID-19 is felt by all parties, including the parents of students in the Play Group/Kindergarten Alfa Kids Purworejo. Many parents feel anxious and panic about COVID-19. Apart from being anxious because they are afraid of transmission to children, but also because of this pandemic, they are forcing some of the work of parents to be constrained, thus creating economic difficulties. Therefore, providing education to parents is needed to increase knowledge and reduce parental anxiety about the pandemic conditions. The resulting outputs are (1) Compilation of videos and booklets as information media, (2) education for parents carried out well online, (3) providing assistance to parents and teachers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, distributed according to those requiring (4) publications. Based on this, it is hoped that the implementation of children's educational activities at home can run well, children can apply health protocols as expected.

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Mining and Validating Social Media for COVID-19-Related Human Behaviors between January and July; An Infodemiology Study (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.27059 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ashlynn R. Daughton ◽

Courtney Diane Shelley ◽

Martha Barnard ◽

Dax Gerts ◽

Chrysm Watson Ross ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Ground Truth ◽

The United States ◽

Training Data ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Social Distancing ◽

Human Behaviors ◽

Mobility Data ◽

The Impact

BACKGROUND Health authorities can minimize the impact of an emergent infectious disease outbreak through effective and timely risk communication, which can build trust and adherence to subsequent behavioral messaging. Monitoring the psychological impacts of an outbreak, as well as public adherence to such messaging is also important for minimizing long term effects of an outbreak. OBJECTIVE We used social media data to identify human behaviors relevant to COVID-19 transmission and the perceived impacts of COVID-19 on individuals as a first step toward real time monitoring of public perceptions to inform public health communications. METHODS We develop a coding schema for 6 categories and 11 subcategories, which includes both a wide number of behaviors, as well codes focused on the impacts of the pandemic (e.g., economic and mental health impacts). We use this to develop training data and develop supervised learning classifiers for classes with sufficient labels. Classifiers that perform adequately are applied to our remaining corpus and temporal and geospatial trends are assessed. We compare the classified patterns to ground truth mobility data and actual COVID-19 confirmed cases to assess the signal achieved here. RESULTS We apply our labeling schema to ~7200 tweets. The worst performing classifiers have F1 scores of only 0.18-0.28 when trying to identify tweets about monitoring symptoms and testing. Classifiers about social distancing, however, are much stronger with F1 scores of 0.64-0.66. We applied the social distancing classifiers to over 228 million tweets. We show temporal patterns consistent with real-world events, and show correlations of up to -0.5 between social distancing signals on Twitter and ground-truth mobility throughout the United States. CONCLUSIONS Behaviors discussed on Twitter are exceptionally varied. Twitter can provide useful information for parameterizing models that incorporate human behavior as well as informing public health communication strategies by describing awareness of and compliance with suggested behaviors. CLINICALTRIAL N/A

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Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 in Europe in 2020: a quasi-experimental non-equivalent group and time series design study

Eurosurveillance ◽

10.2807/1560-7917.es.2021.26.28.2001401 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (28) ◽

Author(s):

Paul R Hunter ◽

Felipe J Colón-González ◽

Julii Brainard ◽

Steven Rushton

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Disease Incidence ◽

Disease Spread ◽

Social Distancing ◽

Mass Gatherings ◽

Quasi Experimental ◽

The Impact ◽

Pharmaceutical Interventions ◽

At Home

Introduction The current pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is unparalleled in recent history as are the social distancing interventions that have led to a considerable halt on the economic and social life of so many countries. Aim We aimed to generate empirical evidence about which social distancing measures had the most impact in reducing case counts and mortality. Methods We report a quasi-experimental (observational) study of the impact of various interventions for control of the outbreak through 24 April 2020. Chronological data on case numbers and deaths were taken from the daily published figures by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and dates of initiation of various control strategies from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation website and published sources. Our complementary analyses were modelled in R using Bayesian generalised additive mixed models and in STATA using multilevel mixed-effects regression models. Results From both sets of modelling, we found that closure of education facilities, prohibiting mass gatherings and closure of some non-essential businesses were associated with reduced incidence whereas stay-at-home orders and closure of additional non-essential businesses was not associated with any independent additional impact. Conclusions Our findings are that schools and some non-essential businesses operating ‘as normal’ as well as allowing mass gatherings were incompatible with suppressing disease spread. Closure of all businesses and stay at home orders are less likely to be required to keep disease incidence low. Our results help identify what were the most effective non-pharmaceutical interventions in this period.

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Possible fates of the dispersion of SARS-COV-2 in the Mexican context

10.1101/2020.07.15.20154526 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ivan Santamaria-Holek ◽

Victor Castano

Keyword(s):

Time Evolution ◽

Compartmental Model ◽

Social Policies ◽

Infection Rates ◽

Conceptual Tool ◽

Epidemiological Research ◽

Social Distancing ◽

The Impact

The determination of the adequate time for house confinement and when social distancing restrictions should end are now two of the main challenges that any country has to face in an effective battle against. The possibility of a new outbreak of the pandemic and how to avoid it is, nowadays, one of the primary objectives of epidemiological research. In this work, we go deep in this subject by presenting an innovative compartmental model, that explicitly introduces the number of active cases, and employing it as a conceptual tool to explore the possible fates of the dispersion of SARS-COV-2 in the Mexican context. We incorporated the impact of starting, inattention, and end of restrictive social policies on the time evolution of the pandemics via time-in-run corrections to the infection rates. The magnitude and impact on the epidemic due to post-social restrictive policies are also studied. The scenarios generated by the model can help authorities to determine an adequate time and population load that may be allowed to reassume normal activities.

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Analisis Perilaku Keagamaan Masyarakat Bogor di Era Pandemi

Da'watuna: Journal of Communication and Islamic Broadcasting ◽

10.47467/dawatuna.v1i1.474 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 16-35

Author(s):

Dedi Junaedi ◽

Faisal Salistia ◽

Moh. Romli ◽

M Rizal Arsyad

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Analytical Method ◽

Research Method ◽

Transition Period ◽

Academic Community ◽

Religious Behavior ◽

The People ◽

The Impact ◽

At Home ◽

Descriptive Qualitative

The Covid-19 pandemic has made many changes, including multidimensional and multisectoral aspects. This study aims to analyze the impact of the pandemic on the religiosity (religious behavior) of the community. Especially the Laa Roiba National IAI academic community, Bogor. Descriptive-qualitative analytical method was used as a research method with a sample of the academic community of IAI National Laa Roiba Bogor. The pandemic that lasted more than 18 months had a real impact on the religious behavior of the people of Bogor Regency. Before the pandemic, most people used to pray in congregation at the nearest mosque/musholla. During the pandemic, most people choose to pray at home or alone. Entering the transition period, some began to congregate to the mosque/musholla, and when PPKM was implemented, some of them returned to their homes. Meanwhile, for Friday prayers and holidays, some are still looking for a mosque/mushola. Breaking together, friendship and recitation tend to decrease, except online via Zoom and Google Meet or social media such as WAG and Facebook. In the midst of limitations, the infaq tradition tends to persist and some have even increased. Likewise, feelings of religiosity and levels of personal piety are acknowledged to have increased after the pandemic.

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Online Impact and Presence of a Specialized Social Media Team for the Journal of Neurosurgery: Descriptive Analysis (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.17741 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Joseph R Linzey ◽

Faith Robertson ◽

Ali S Haider ◽

Christopher Salvatore Graffeo ◽

Justin Z Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Media Use ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Descriptive Statistics ◽

Media Content ◽

Scholarly Publications ◽

Publishing Group ◽

Research And Education ◽

The Impact ◽

Journal Impact

BACKGROUND Social media use continues to gain momentum in academic neurosurgery. To increase journal impact and broaden engagement, many scholarly publications have turned to social media to disseminate research. The Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) established a dedicated, specialized social media team (SMT) in November 2016 to provide targeted improvement in digital outreach. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to examine the impact of the JNSPG SMT as measured by increased engagement. METHODS We analyzed various metrics, including impressions, engagements, retweets, likes, profile clicks, and URL clicks, from consecutive social media posts from the JNSPG’s Twitter and Facebook platforms between February 1, 2015 and February 28, 2019. Standard descriptive statistics were utilized. RESULTS Between February 2015 and October 2016, when a specialized SMT was created, 170 tweets (8.1 tweets/month) were posted compared to 3220 tweets (115.0 tweets/month) between November 2016 and February 2019. All metrics significantly increased, including the impressions per tweet (mean 1646.3, SD 934.9 vs mean 4605.6, SD 65,546.5; P=.01), engagements per tweet (mean 35.2, SD 40.6 vs mean 198.2, SD 1037.2; P<.001), retweets (mean 2.5, SD 2.8 vs mean 10.5, SD 15.3; P<.001), likes (mean 2.5, SD 4.0 vs mean 18.0, SD 37.9; P<.001), profile clicks (mean 1.5, SD 2.0 vs mean 5.2, SD 43.3; P<.001), and URL clicks (mean 13.1, SD 14.9 vs mean 38.3, SD 67.9; P<.001). Tweets that were posted on the weekend compared to weekdays had significantly more retweets (mean 9.2, SD 9.8 vs mean 13.4, SD 25.6; P<.001), likes (mean 15.3, SD 17.9 vs mean 23.7, SD 70.4; P=.001), and URL clicks (mean 33.4, SD 40.5 vs mean 49.5, SD 117.3; P<.001). Between November 2015 and October 2016, 49 Facebook posts (2.3 posts/month) were sent compared to 2282 posts (81.5 posts/month) sent between November 2016 and February 2019. All Facebook metrics significantly increased, including impressions (mean 5475.9, SD 5483.0 vs mean 8506.1, SD 13,113.9; P<.001), engagements (mean 119.3, SD 194.8 vs mean 283.8, SD 733.8; P<.001), and reach (mean 2266.6, SD 2388.3 vs mean 5344.1, SD 8399.2; P<.001). Weekend Facebook posts had significantly more impressions per post (mean 7967.9, SD 9901.0 vs mean 9737.8, SD 19,013.4; P=.03) and a higher total reach (mean 4975.8, SD 6309.8 vs mean 6108.2, SD 12,219.7; P=.03) than weekday posts. CONCLUSIONS Social media has been established as a crucial tool for the propagation of neurosurgical research and education. Implementation of the JNSPG specialized SMT had a demonstrable impact on increasing the online visibility of social media content.

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Impact of Risk Perception on Trust in Government and Self-Efficiency During COVID-19 pandemic: Does Social Media Content Help Users Adopt Preventative Measures?

10.21203/rs.3.rs-43836/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Mohammed Salah Hassan ◽

Hussam Al Halbusi ◽

Ali Najem ◽

Asbah Razali ◽

Kent A. Williams ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Risk Perception ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Media Content ◽

Trust In Government ◽

Media Usage ◽

Preventative Measures ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

Abstract The public’s actions will likely have a significant effect on the course of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Human behavior is conditioned and shaped by information and perceptions of people. This study investigated the impact of risk perception on trust in government and self-efficacy. It examined whether the use of social media helps people adopt preventative actions during the pandemic. To test this hypothesis, data were gathered from 512 individuals (students and academicians) who were based in Malaysia during COVID-19. Our results suggested that risk perception had a significant effect on trust in government and self-efficacy. Moreover, these correlations were stronger when social media was used as a source for gathering information on COVID-19, and in some cases it even helped the user avoid being exposed to the virus. This study assessed the relationship between risk perception and the awareness gained from using social media during the pandemic and also highlighted how social media usage influences trust in government and self-efficacy.

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