Guidelines for communicating about bats to prevent persecution in the time of COVID-19

D MacFarlane, R Rocha - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
While the current COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on human health and
national economies, conservationists are struggling to prevent misguided persecution of …

Fake news on the internet: a literature review, synthesis and directions for future research

Y Wu, EWT Ngai, P Wu, C Wu - Internet Research, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The extensive distribution of fake news on the internet (FNI) has significantly
affected many lives. Although numerous studies have recently been conducted on this topic …

Role of big data and social media analytics for business to business sustainability: A participatory web context

U Sivarajah, Z Irani, S Gupta, K Mahroof - Industrial Marketing Management, 2020 - Elsevier
The digital transformation is an accumulation of various digital advancements, such as the
transformation of the web phenomenon. The participatory web that allows for active user …

Effective strategies for rebutting science denialism in public discussions

P Schmid, C Betsch - Nature Human Behaviour, 2019 - nature.com
Science deniers question scientific milestones and spread misinformation, contradicting
decades of scientific endeavour. Advocates for science need effective rebuttal strategies and …

The role of online misinformation and fake news in ideological polarization: barriers, catalysts, and implications

CH Au, KKW Ho, DKW Chiu - Information systems frontiers, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, the circulation of online misinformation and fake news has drawn our
attention, given it has ideologically polarized society and has led to social instability …

Believing in conspiracy theories: Evidence from an exploratory analysis of Italian survey data

M Mancosu, S Vassallo, C Vezzoni - South European Society and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Beliefs in conspiracy theories have attracted significant international media attention in
recent years. This phenomenon has been studied in the US but while anecdotal evidence …

Paperqa: Retrieval-augmented generative agent for scientific research

J Lála, O O'Donoghue, A Shtedritski, S Cox… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) generalize well across language tasks, but suffer from
hallucinations and uninterpretability, making it difficult to assess their accuracy without …

Reflections on “social media: Influencing customer satisfaction in B2B sales” and a research agenda

D Nunan, O Sibai, B Schivinski… - Industrial Marketing …, 2018 - Elsevier
Given the indirect role of social media in value creation, the article “Social media: Influencing
customer satisfaction in B2B sales” by Agnihotri, Dingus, Hu, and Krush (2016) is notable for …

Public discourse and social network echo chambers driven by socio-cognitive biases

X Wang, AD Sirianni, S Tang, Z Zheng, F Fu - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
In recent years, social media has become an important platform for political discourse, being
a site of both political conversations between voters and political advertisements from …

The role of social media in Russia's war on Ukraine

D Ciuriak - Available at SSRN 4078863, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shell-shocked the world. It has monopolized headlines in
the print and broadcast media, unleashed a torrent of instant analysis in professional …