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Interaction or Segregation: Vaccination and Information Sharing on Twitter

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Wei-Chu Chen,

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CSCW '18 Companion: Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3274082

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It is argued that anti-vaccination advocates use social media to spread their influence. At the same time pro-vaccination groups are having a stronger social-media presence. This study examined information-sharing behavior regarding vaccination by analyzing hyperlinks shared on Twitter, and found that these two groups exhibit different behaviors. While anti-vaccination group uses embedded URLs more than the pro-vaccination one, they pool from the smaller group of URLs risking the echo chamber or filter bubble effects. Unsurprisingly, there are very few information sources shared by both groups.

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Interaction or Segregation: Vaccination and Information Sharing on Twitter
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Social content sharing
      2. Social media
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
    1. Medical information policy
      1. Health information exchanges

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Monaci SPersico S(2023)Who’s fuelling Twitter disinformation on the COVID-19 vaccination campaign? Evidence from a computational analysis of the green pass debateContemporary Italian Politics10.1080/23248823.2023.218273515:4(468-493)Online publication date: Mar-2023
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