What social media told us in the time of COVID-19: a scoping review.
Lancet Digit Health
; 3(3): e175-e194, 2021 03.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1152740
ABSTRACT
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has rapidly become a crucial communication tool for information generation, dissemination, and consumption. In this scoping review, we selected and examined peer-reviewed empirical studies relating to COVID-19 and social media during the first outbreak from November, 2019, to November, 2020. From an analysis of 81 studies, we identified five overarching public health themes concerning the role of online social media platforms and COVID-19. These themes focused on surveying public attitudes, identifying infodemics, assessing mental health, detecting or predicting COVID-19 cases, analysing government responses to the pandemic, and evaluating quality of health information in prevention education videos. Furthermore, our Review emphasises the paucity of studies on the application of machine learning on data from COVID-19-related social media and a scarcity of studies documenting real-time surveillance that was developed with data from social media on COVID-19. For COVID-19, social media can have a crucial role in disseminating health information and tackling infodemics and misinformation.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Health Education
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Social Media
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Reviews
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Lancet Digit Health
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S2589-7500(20)30315-0
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