The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemic.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, many studies have drawn attention to the important role of collective awareness and human behaviour during epidemic outbreaks. A number of modelling efforts have investigated the interaction between the disease transmission dynamics and human behaviour change mediated by news coverage and by information spreading in the population. Yet, given the scarcity of data on public awareness during an epidemic, few studies have relied on empirical data. Here, we use fine-grained, geo-referenced data from three online sources-Wikipedia, the GDELT Project and the Internet Archive-to quantify population-scale information seeking about the 2016 Zika virus epidemic in the U.S., explicitly linking such behavioural signal to epidemiological data. Geo-localized Wikipedia pageview data reve

SUBMITTER: Tizzoni M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7067377 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature