Background An infodemic is an overflow of information of varying quality that surges across
digital and physical environments during an acute public health event. It leads to confusion …

This special theme issue of Big Data & Society presents leading-edge, interdisciplinary
research that focuses on examining how health-related (mis-) information is circulating on …

Background During a public health emergency, accurate and useful information can be
drowned out by questions, concerns, information voids, conflicting information, and …

Our complex postdigital reality—marred by mis-and disinformation, information disorder
(Wardle & Derakhshan,), and network pollution (Phillips & Milner,)—demands that our …

Background Online health misinformation about statins potentially affects health decision-
making on statin use and adherence. We developed an information diary platform (IDP) to …

This article critically examines the social implications of data infrastructures designed to
moderate contested content categories such as disinformation. It does so in the context of …

At the end of 2019, a novel coronavirus was identified in Wuhan, a city in China. It rapidly
spread throughout the world, resulting in a global pandemic declaration by the World Health …

This volume places the spotlight on the role different media and communications systems
played in informing the public about the pandemic, shaping their views about what was …

At the end of 2019, a novel coronavirus was identified in Wuhan, a city in China. It rapidly
spread throughout the world, resulting in a global pandemic declaration by the World Health …

The rapidly evolving curation of biomedical publications has resulted in an information crisis,
such that researchers and other individuals working in biomedical domain require …