Influence of Mass Media on Italian Web Users During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Infodemiological Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Concurrently with the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has been facing a growing infodemic, which has caused severe damage to economic and health systems and has often compromised the effectiveness of infection containment regulations. Although this infodemic has spread mainly through social media, there are numerous occasions on which mass media outlets have shared dangerous information, giving resonance to statements without a scientific basis. For these reasons, infoveillance and infodemiology methods are increasingly exploited to monitor information traffic on the web and make epidemiological predictions.

Objective

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of Italian mass media on users' web searches to understand the role of press and television channel

SUBMITTER: Rovetta A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8601032 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature