[HTML][HTML] One year of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on Twitter: longitudinal study

F Pierri, MR DeVerna, KC Yang, D Axelrod… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - jmir.org
Background Vaccinations play a critical role in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 and other
diseases. Past research has linked misinformation to increased hesitancy and lower …

Retweet-bert: political leaning detection using language features and information diffusion on social networks

J Jiang, X Ren, E Ferrara - … of the international AAAI conference on web …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Estimating the political leanings of social media users is a challenging and ever more
pressing problem given the increase in social media consumption. We introduce Retweet …

Adverse mentions, negative sentiment, and emotions in COVID-19 vaccine tweets and their association with vaccination uptake: Global comparison of 192 countries

J Jun, A Zain, Y Chen, SH Kim - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Many countries show low COVID-19 vaccination rates despite high levels of
readiness and delivery of vaccines. The public's misperceptions, hesitancy, and negative …

Analysis of mobility homophily in Stockholm based on social network data

C Heine, C Marquez, P Santi, M Sundberg, M Nordfors… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
We present a novel metric for measuring relative connection between parts of a city using
geotagged Twitter data as a proxy for co-occurrence of city residents. We find that …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of provaping “gatewatchers” on the dissemination of COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter: analysis of Twitter discourse regarding nicotine and …

N Silver, E Kierstead, G Kostygina, H Tran… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - jmir.org
Background There is a lot of misinformation about a potential protective role of nicotine
against COVID-19 spread on Twitter despite significant evidence to the contrary. We need to …

Social sensing of heatwaves

JC Young, R Arthur, M Spruce, HTP Williams - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Heatwaves cause thousands of deaths every year, yet the social impacts of heat are poorly
measured. Temperature alone is not sufficient to measure impacts and “heatwaves” are …

From Posts to Knowledge: Annotating a Pandemic-Era Reddit Dataset to Navigate Mental Health Narratives

S Rani, K Ahmed, S Subramani - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Mental illness is increasingly recognized as a substantial public health challenge worldwide.
With the advent of social media, these platforms have become pivotal for individuals to …

Tweets and transitions: Exploring Twitter-based political discourse regarding energy and electricity in Ontario, Canada

D Labonte, IH Rowlands - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The article explores how Twitter data can inform the study of the socio-political dimensions
of sustainability transitions. Twitter is a widely used microblogging platform that allows users …

How Twitter data sampling biases US voter behavior characterizations

KC Yang, PM Hui, F Menczer - PeerJ Computer Science, 2022 - peerj.com
Online social media are key platforms for the public to discuss political issues. As a result,
researchers have used data from these platforms to analyze public opinions and forecast …

Estimating the influence of Twitter on pre-exposure prophylaxis use and HIV testing as a function of rates of men who have sex with men in the United States

MS Chan, A Morales, M Zlotorzynska, P Sullivan… - Aids, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objective (s): Acceptance of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and testing for HIV is likely to
vary as a function of the norms and communications within a geographic area. This study …