The role of social media in the battle against COVID-19
Carmela Comito, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR), Rende, Italy
Abstract
Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, social media becomes a key means for information generation and dissemination about the pandemic. This resulted in an “epidemic” of information with a huge amount of COVID-19 data spreading in real time over social networks, a phenomenon often referred to as a “digital infodemic.” Understanding, analyzing, and exploiting such data could provide crucial support to medical and government institutions to fight the pandemics. The aim of the study reported in this chapter is to explore ...
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