Understanding the Personality of Contributors to Information Cascades in Social Media in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social media have become a major source of health information for lay people. It has the power to influence the public's adoption of health policies and to determine the response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this paper is to enhance understanding of personality characteristics o...

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Main Authors: Nurbakova, Diana, Ermakova, Liana, Ovchinnikova, Irina
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Blogs
COVID-19
Information cascades
Medical treatment
Pandemics
Personality traits
Predictive models
Sentiment analysis
Social media
Social networking (online)
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Summary:Social media have become a major source of health information for lay people. It has the power to influence the public's adoption of health policies and to determine the response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this paper is to enhance understanding of personality characteristics of users who spread information about controversial COVID-19 medical treatments on Twitter.
ISSN:2375-9259
DOI:10.1109/ICDMW51313.2020.00016