Collective Response to Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Reddit and Wikipedia: Mixed-Methods Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The exposure and consumption of information during epidemic outbreaks may alter people's risk perception and trigger behavioral changes, which can ultimately affect the evolution of the disease. It is thus of utmost importance to map the dissemination of information by mainstream media outlets and the public response to this information. However, our understanding of this exposure-response dynamic during the COVID-19 pandemic is still limited.

Objective

The goal of this study is to characterize the media coverage and collective internet response to the COVID-19 pandemic in four countries: Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.

Methods

We collected a heterogeneous data set including 227,768 web-based news articles and 13,448 YouTube videos

SUBMITTER: Gozzi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7553788 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature