[HTML][HTML] Social media mining under the COVID-19 context: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

X Huang, S Wang, M Zhang, T Hu, A Hohl… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Social media platforms allow users worldwide to create and share information, forging vast
sensing networks that allow information on certain topics to be collected, stored, mined, and …

Exploring the motivation behind discrimination and stigmatization related to COVID-19: A social psychological discussion based on the main theoretical explanations

HA Demirtaş-Madran - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19), was first detected in Wuhan province in China during
late December 2019 and was designated as being highly infectious. The World Health …

Bots and online hate during the COVID-19 pandemic: case studies in the United States and the Philippines

J Uyheng, KM Carley - Journal of computational social science, 2020 - Springer
Online hate speech represents a serious problem exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic. Although often anchored in real-world social divisions, hate speech in …

Bots amplify and redirect hate speech in online discourse about racism during the COVID-19 pandemic

J Uyheng, D Bellutta, KM Carley - Social Media+ Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Online talk about racism has been salient throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet while
such social media conversations reflect existing tensions in the offline world, the same …

COVID-19 on Instagram: A content analysis of selected accounts

F Niknam, M Samadbeik, F Fatehi, M Shirdel… - Health policy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective This study aimed to characterize the representation of public health information
related to COVID-19 posted on Instagram in 2020. Methods This qualitative content analysis …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature impacts on hate speech online: evidence from 4 billion geolocated tweets from the USA

A Stechemesser, A Levermann… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background A link between weather and aggression in the offline world has been
established across a variety of societal settings. Simultaneously, the rapid digitalisation of …

Characterizing network dynamics of online hate communities around the COVID-19 pandemic

J Uyheng, KM Carley - Applied Network Science, 2021 - Springer
Hate speech has long posed a serious problem for the integrity of digital platforms. Although
significant progress has been made in identifying hate speech in its various forms, prevailing …

[HTML][HTML] Intergroup contact, COVID-19 news consumption, and the moderating role of digital media trust on prejudice toward Asians in the United States: Cross …

JY Tsai, J Phua, S Pan, C Yang - Journal of medical Internet research, 2020 - jmir.org
Background The perceived threat of a contagious virus may lead people to be distrustful of
immigrants and out-groups. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the salient politicized discourses …

Offline crime bounces back to pre-COVID levels, cyber stays high: Interrupted time-series analysis in Northern Ireland

D Buil-Gil, Y Zeng, S Kemp - Crime science, 2021 - Springer
Much research has shown that the first lockdowns imposed in response to the COVID-19
pandemic were associated with changes in routine activities and, therefore, changes in …

Perceived discrimination and mental distress amid the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the understanding America study

Y Liu, BK Finch, SG Brenneke, K Thomas… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction This study examines COVID-19–associated discrimination regardless of
infection status. It evaluates the contribution of various risk factors (eg, race/ethnicity and …