During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, various officials flagged the critical threat of
false information. In this study, we explore how three major social media platforms …

Algorithms and especially recommendation algorithms play an important role online, most
notably on YouTube. Yet, little is known about the network communities that these …

Implications Globally and with increasing intensity during the present COVID-19 pandemic,
efforts have been taken to address adherence to vaccine implementation across a spectrum …

This article examines the role of Facebook and YouTube in potentially exposing people to
COVID-19 vaccine–related misinformation. Specifically, to study the potential level of …

Holding the greatest area of rainforest in the world, Brazil has seen the adoption of a far-right
anti-environmental agenda under the administration of Jair Bolsonaro. This agenda was …

As the scale, frequency, and intensity of crises faced by the world have dramatically
increased over the last decade, there is a critical need for a careful stocktaking on the …

In their calls for an exploration of the ongoing changes of the science-society nexus, the
guest editors of this special issue refer to the tremendous impact that digital transformation …

Abstract The Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) metric is widely utilized in the evaluation
of clustering and community detection algorithms. This study explores the performance of …

Science communication and public engagement with science have repeatedly been called
for in recent years, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, die Swiss …

Drawing upon theories of risk and decision making, we present a theoretical framework for
how the emotional attributes of social media content influence risk behaviors. We apply our …