TY - JOUR
T1 - COVID-19 infodemic on Chinese social media
T2 - A 4P framework, selective review and research directions
AU - Luo, Jia
AU - Xue, Rui
AU - Hu, Jinglu
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported in part by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2020/11
Y1 - 2020/11
N2 - During the outbreak of the COVID-19 (2019 coronavirus disease), misinformation related to the virus spread rapidly online and have led to serious difficulties in controlling the disease. The term infodemic is coined to outline the bad effect from the extensive dissemination of misinformation during the outbreak. With regards to this phenomenon, the World Health Organization emphasized the need to fight against infodemic and asked all countries not only to make efforts in slowing down the spread of the COVID-19 but also in countering the risk caused by infodemic. Due to its negative impact, this paper analyzes infodemic on Chinese social media at the initial stage of the COVID-19 outbreak and presents a 4P framework standing for the four features of Chinese infodemic: Prevention Attention, Problem Orientation, Patterns Interaction and Points Globalization. Furthermore, a selective review of existing datasets in the neural networks domain is synthesized based on the 4P framework. Finally, research directions, including recommendations, about constructing a large-scale dataset for Chinese infodemic automatic detection are proposed.
AB - During the outbreak of the COVID-19 (2019 coronavirus disease), misinformation related to the virus spread rapidly online and have led to serious difficulties in controlling the disease. The term infodemic is coined to outline the bad effect from the extensive dissemination of misinformation during the outbreak. With regards to this phenomenon, the World Health Organization emphasized the need to fight against infodemic and asked all countries not only to make efforts in slowing down the spread of the COVID-19 but also in countering the risk caused by infodemic. Due to its negative impact, this paper analyzes infodemic on Chinese social media at the initial stage of the COVID-19 outbreak and presents a 4P framework standing for the four features of Chinese infodemic: Prevention Attention, Problem Orientation, Patterns Interaction and Points Globalization. Furthermore, a selective review of existing datasets in the neural networks domain is synthesized based on the 4P framework. Finally, research directions, including recommendations, about constructing a large-scale dataset for Chinese infodemic automatic detection are proposed.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Chinese social media
KW - conceptual framework
KW - infodemic data
KW - literature review
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U2 - 10.1177/0020294020967035
DO - 10.1177/0020294020967035
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096773325
SN - 0020-2940
VL - 53
SP - 2070
EP - 2079
JO - Measurement and Control
JF - Measurement and Control
IS - 9-10
ER -