Combating the Infodemic: A Chinese Infodemic Dataset for Misinformation Identification

Misinformation posted on social media during COVID-19 is one main example of infodemic data. This phenomenon was prominent in China when COVID-19 happened at the beginning. While a lot of data can be collected from various social media platforms, publicly available infodemic detection data remains rare and is not easy to construct manually. Therefore, instead of developing techniques for infodemic detection, this paper aims at constructing a Chinese infodemic dataset, “infodemic 2019”, by collecting widely spread Chinese infodemic during the COVID-19 outbreak. Each record is labeled as true, false or questionable. After a four-time adjustment, the original imbalanced dataset is converted into a balanced dataset by exploring the properties of the collected records. The final labels achieve high intercoder reliability with healthcare workers’ annotations and the high-frequency words show a strong relationship between the proposed dataset and pandemic diseases. Finally, numerical experiments are carried out with RNN, CNN and fastText. All of them achieve reasonable performance and present baselines for future works.

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The Influence Of Facebook Marketing On Consumer Buying Intention Of Clothing: Evidence From Young Adults

Archives of Business Research ◽

10.14738/abr.89.8992 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (9) ◽

pp. 37-51

Author(s):

D. T. Kingsley Bernard ◽

A. A. S. N. Munasinghe ◽

I. K. R. J. Premarathne ◽

S. Wijayarathne

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Young Adults ◽

Purchase Intention ◽

Strong Relationship ◽

Important Variable ◽

Consumer Purchase Intention ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Comprehensive Survey ◽

The Impact ◽

Facebook Marketing

As a result of the rapid improvements paved through global advertising pathways, marketers have started to promote their products through social media platforms and among that; Facebook had become the most popular mode of communicating out of all. The study was conducted with the objective of comprehensively investigating the influence of Facebook marketing on consumer buying intention of clothing using evidence of young adults. Predominantly, the research focused upon identifying the superiority of Facebook as a social media communication platform and its relevant impact upon advertising. Majority of the businesses aims toward increasing the reach, whereas Facebook users expect clear experience through Facebook rather than watching typical pop ups, web banners and adds. However, Facebook marketing was identified to be positively and negatively influencing the companies and users. Therefore, focus was to analyze the impact to consumer’s buying intention from Facebook marketing. The companies can identify the effectiveness of the advertising and the improvement to be done. The study has undertaken a comprehensive survey to achieve the objectives of the research and those data was analyzed through component factor analysis, regression analysis and correlation coefficient. As per the results of the analysis, researchers have accomplished the stated objectives of the study. In conclusion, it was identified that there was a strong relationship between independent and dependent variables except E-WOM. Among that, Likes and sharing are the most important variables in Facebook marketing. According to outcomes, E- WOM was not an important variable, nonetheless researchers recommend focusing on E-WOM in order to convert this variable in to positive way to make better results, as previous researches stated that E-WOM can make massive impact to consumer purchase intention.

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Capturing the Trajectory of Psychological Status and Analyzing Online Public Reactions During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Through Weibo Posts in China

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.744691 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Yi-Chen Chiang ◽

Meijie Chu ◽

Shengnan Lin ◽

Xinlan Cai ◽

Qing Chen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Public Opinion ◽

Language Processing ◽

High Frequency ◽

Large Scale ◽

Early Period ◽

Psychological Status ◽

Internet Users ◽

External Stimuli ◽

High Frequency Words

When a major, sudden infectious disease occurs, people tend to react emotionally and display reactions such as tension, anxiety, fear, depression, and somatization symptoms. Social media played a substantial awareness role in developing countries during the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study aimed to analyze public opinion regarding COVID-19 and to explore the trajectory of psychological status and online public reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic by examining online content from Weibo in China. This study consisted of three steps: first, Weibo posts created during the pandemic were collected and preprocessed on a large scale; second, public sentiment orientation was classified as “optimistic/pessimistic/neutral” orientation via natural language processing and manual determination procedures; and third, qualitative and quantitative analyses were conducted to reveal the trajectory of public psychological status and online public reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public psychological status differed in different periods of the pandemic (from December 2019 to May 2020). The newly confirmed cases had an almost 1-month lagged effect on public psychological status. Among the 15 events with high impact indexes or related to government decisions, there were 10 optimism orientation > pessimism orientation (OP) events (2/3) and 5 pessimism orientation > optimism orientation (PO) events (1/3). Among the top two OP events, the high-frequency words were “race against time” and “support,” while in the top two PO events, the high-frequency words were “irrationally purchase” and “pass away.” We proposed a hypothesis that people developed negative self-perception when they received PO events, but their cognition was developed by how these external stimuli were processed and evaluated. These results offer implications for public health policymakers on understanding public psychological status from social media. This study demonstrates the benefits of promoting psychological healthcare and hygiene activity in the early period and improving risk perception for the public based on public opinion and the coping abilities of people. Health managers should focus on disseminating socially oriented strategies to improve the policy literacy of Internet users, thereby facilitating the disease prevention work for the COVID-19 pandemic and other major public events.

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Hacktivism and distributed hashtag spoiling on Twitter: Tales of the #IranTalks

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v23i4.8378 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mahdi M. Najafabadi ◽

Robert J. Domanski

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

High Frequency ◽

Accurate Analysis ◽

Organizational Network ◽

Analysis Techniques ◽

Social Trends ◽

Comprehensive Plan ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Twitter Users ◽

Final Agreement

The landmark Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was the final agreement of a series of tense nuclear negotiations between Iran and EU3+3 countries that started from September 2013, after which the Iranian people had elected a new president, and finalized in 2015. During several rounds of these negotiations, we noticed that some Twitter users were seemingly trying to distract people from the flow of latest news about the most trending negotiation’s hashtag, “#IranTalks”, by posting irrelevant tweets at a high frequency, that could be categorized as ‘spam’. We collected a sampling of all the tweets that contained the #IranTalks hashtag, and marked the distracting tweets based on some criteria. We populated a list of the spammers’ accounts and extracted their one-on-one friendship relationship (following/followed by). We applied social and organizational network analysis techniques and found strong evidence for the existence of an organization through which the accounts responsible for such tweeting behavior are connected. We believe the results of this study can stimulate more research about this social and organizational phenomenon and its possible impacts, and can help in better understanding and more accurate analysis of social trends on social media platforms.

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SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 UK Variant of Concern Lineage-Related Perceptions, COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Travel Worry Among Healthcare Workers

Frontiers in Public Health ◽

10.3389/fpubh.2021.686958 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

Mohamad-Hani Temsah ◽

Mazin Barry ◽

Fadi Aljamaan ◽

Abdullah N. Alhuzaimi ◽

Ayman Al-Eyadhy ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Healthcare Workers ◽

Information Dissemination ◽

Severe Disease ◽

Vaccine Uptake ◽

Accurate Information ◽

Common Source ◽

New Variant ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Source Of Information

Background: Healthcare workers' (HCWs') travel-related anxiety needs to be assessed in light of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 mutations.Methods: An online, cross-sectional questionnaire among HCWs between December 21, 2020 to January 7, 2021. The outcome variables were HCWs' knowledge and awareness of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage that was recently reported as the UK variant of concern, and its associated travel worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) score.Results: A total of 1,058 HCWs completed the survey; 66.5% were female, 59.0% were nurses. 9.0% indicated they had been previously diagnosed with COVID-19. Regarding the B.1.1.7 lineage, almost all (97.3%) were aware of its emergence, 73.8% were aware that it is more infectious, 78.0% thought it causes more severe disease, and only 50.0% knew that current COVID-19 vaccines are effective in preventing it. Despite this, 66.7% of HCWs were not registered to receive the vaccine. HCWs' most common source of information about the new variant was social media platforms (67.0%), and this subgroup was significantly more worried about traveling. Nurses were more worried than physicians (P = 0.001).Conclusions: Most HCWs were aware of the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant and expressed substantial travel worries. Increased worry levels were found among HCWs who used social media as their main source of information, those with lower levels of COVID-19 vaccine uptake, and those with higher GAD-7 scores. The utilization of official social media platforms could improve accurate information dissemination among HCWs regarding the Pandemic's evolving mutations. Targeted vaccine campaigns are warranted to assure HCWs about the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines toward SARS-CoV-2 variants.

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PLATFORMIZING DELIVERY WORKERS' EXPERIENCES: BUILDING WORKER-OWNED PLATFORMS IN BRAZIL, SPAIN AND FRANCE

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research ◽

10.5210/spir.v2021i0.11925 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rafael Grohmann

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Common Good ◽

Work Organization ◽

Strong Relationship ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

Digital Commons ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Emergence Of Cooperation ◽

Use Of Social Media

The article aims to analyze the emergence of worker-owned platforms, specifically delivery workers’ experiences, as one of the laboratories of platform labor and the circulation of workers’ struggles Drawing on interviews with six cases in three different countries (Spain, France and Brazil), the research highlights the commonalities, specificities and challenges of platformizing delivery workers’ experiences in different countries. The analysis consider following dimensions: productive processes and work organization, technological challenges and building platforms, use of social media to communicate with and organize workers, and the future of worker-owned experiences. The initiatives had very different trajectories. In Spain, some cooperatives were born from union struggles. In France, we saw a strong relationship with CoopCycle, a federation of delivery co-ops that provides its own software based on the principles of digital commons. And in Brazil, small collectives and co-ops that still depend on social media platforms to execute their work are emerging. Despite different contexts, there are commonalities, such as the low number of workers, the central role of social media for communicating and organizing work, and the emergence of cooperation among cooperatives, which shows that scale does not need to be a standard in platform economies. The conclusions point out there is an ongoing and emerging process that can be the beginning of a broader process of reinventing local economic circuits of production and consumption that involves digital platforms for the common good.

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SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage-related perceptions and travel worry among healthcare workers

10.1101/2021.01.19.21250111 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mohamad-Hani Temsah ◽

Mazin Barry ◽

Fadi Aljamaan ◽

Abdullah N Alhuzaimi ◽

Ayman Al-Eyadhy ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Healthcare Workers ◽

Information Dissemination ◽

Severe Disease ◽

Vaccine Uptake ◽

Accurate Information ◽

Common Source ◽

New Variant ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Source Of Information

AbstractBackgroundHealthcare workers’ (HCWs’) travel-related anxiety needs to be assessed in light of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 mutations.MethodsAn online, cross-sectional questionnaire among HCWs between December 21, 2020 to January 7, 2021. The outcome variables were HCWs’ knowledge and awareness of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage, and its associated travel worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) score.ResultsA total of 1,058 HCWs completed the survey; 66.5% were female, 59.0% were nurses. 9.0% indicated they had been previously diagnosed with COVID-19 themselves. Regarding the B.1.1.7 lineage, almost all (97.3%) were aware of its emergence, 73.8% were aware that it is more infectious, 78.0% thought it causes more severe disease, and only 50.0% knew that current COVID-19 vaccines are effective in preventing it. Despite this, 66.7% of HCWs were not registered to receive the vaccine. HCWs’ most common source of information about the new variant was social media platforms (67%), and this subgroup was significantly more worried about travelling. Nurses were more worried than physicians (P=0.001); additionally, those who had not travelled in the previous 3 months and those who had not received or registered for the COVID-19 vaccine were also significantly more worried (P = 0.037 and P < 0.001, respectively).ConclusionsMost HCWs were aware of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant and expressed substantial travel worries. Increased worry levels were found among HCWs who used social media as their main source of information, those with lower levels of COVID-19 vaccine uptake, and those with higher GAD-7 scores. Utilization of official social media platforms could improve accurate information dissemination among HCWs regarding the pandemic’s evolving mutations. Targeted vaccine campaigns are warranted to assure HCWs about the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines toward SARS-CoV-2 variants.

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Experience Matters

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000423 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 228 (4) ◽

pp. 254-263 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pedro S. Mendes ◽

Karlos Luna ◽

Pedro B. Albuquerque

Keyword(s):

Word Frequency ◽

High Frequency ◽

Recall Test ◽

Judgments Of Learning ◽

Direct Experience ◽

Frequency Effects ◽

Actual Frequency ◽

Actual Word ◽

High Frequency Words

Abstract. The present study tested if word frequency effects on judgments of learning (JOLs) are exclusively due to beliefs or if the direct experience with the items also plays a role. Across four experiments, participants read prompts about the frequency of the words (high/low), which could be congruent/incongruent with the words’ actual frequency. They made pre-study JOLs (except Experiment 1b), immediate JOLs, and completed a recall test. If experience drives the effect, JOLs should be based on actual word frequency rather than the prompts. Results showed higher pre-study JOLs for prompts of high frequency, but higher immediate JOLs for high-frequency words regardless of the prompt, suggesting an effect of direct experience with the words. In Experiments 2 and 3, we manipulated participants’ beliefs, finding a small effect of beliefs on JOLs. We conclude that, regarding word frequency, direct experience with the items seems more relevant than beliefs when making immediate JOLs.

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Making High Frequency Words Harder to Read

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e665412011-300 ◽

1992 ◽

Author(s):

Patrick Brown ◽

Lucia Colombo ◽

Stephen J. Lupker

Keyword(s):

High Frequency ◽

High Frequency Words

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MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA

International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering ◽

10.23956/ijarcsse.v8i3.558 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 8

Author(s):

PHILIP ADEBO

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Mobile Apps ◽

Social Revolution ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

The Way

The emergence of mobile connectivity is revolutionizing the way people live, work, interact, and socialize. Mobile social media is the heart of this social revolution. It is becoming a global phenomenon as it enables IP-connectivity for people on the move. Popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace have made mobile apps for their users to have instant access from anywhere at any time. This paper provides a brief introduction into mobile social media, their benefits, and challenges.

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Representasi Feminisme dalam Video Klip ‘Nightmare’ oleh Halsey

Koneksi ◽

10.24912/kn.v4i2.8170 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 338

Author(s):

Faiz Zulia Maharany ◽

Ahmad Junaidi

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Social Media ◽

Data Collection ◽

Mass Communication ◽

Video Clip ◽

Charles Sanders Peirce ◽

Patriarchal Culture ◽

The Social ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Barrier Wall

'Nightmare' is the title of a video clip belonging to a singer and singer called Halsey, in which the video clip is explained about the figure of women who struggle against patriarchal culture which has been a barrier wall for women to get their rights, welfare and the equality needed they get. This research uses descriptive qualitative research methods. Data collection techniques are done through documentation, observation and study of literature. Then, analyzed using Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics technique. The results of this study show the fact that signs, symbols or messages representing feminism in the video, 'Nightmare' clips are presented through scenes that present women's actions in opposing domination over men and sarcastic sentences contained in the lyrics of the song to discuss with patriarchy. Youtube as one of the social media platforms where the 'Nightmare' video clip is uploaded is very effective for mass communication and for conveying the message contained in the video clip to the viewing public.‘Nightmare’ adalah judul video klip milik musisi sekaligus penyanyi yang bernama Halsey, dimana pada Video klipnya tersebut menceritakan tentang figur perempuan-perempuan yang berusaha melawan budaya patriarki yang selama ini telah menjadi dinding penghalang bagi perempuan untuk mendapatkan hak-haknya, keadilan dan kesetaraan yang seharusnya mereka dapatkan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif deskriptif. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui dokumentasi, observasi dan studi kepustakaan. Kemudian, dianalisis menggunakan teknik semiotika milik Charles Sanders Peirce. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa terdapat tanda-tanda, simbol atau pesan yang merepresentasikan feminisme di dalam video klip ‘Nightmare’ yang dihadirkan melalui adegan-adegan yang menyajikan aksi perempuan dalam menolak dominasi atas laki-laki dan kalimat-kalimat sarkas yang terkandung dalam lirik lagunya untuk ditujukan kepada patriarki. Youtube sebagai salah satu platform media sosial dimana video klip ‘Nightmare’ diunggah sangat efektif untuk melakukan komunikasi massa dan untuk menyampaikan pesan yang terkandung di dalam video klip tersebut kepada masyarakat yang menonton.

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