{"title":"Understanding the Personality of Contributors to Information Cascades in Social Media in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Diana Nurbakova, Liana Ermakova, Irina Ovchinnikova","doi":"10.1109/ICDMW51313.2020.00016","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Social media have become a major source of health information for lay people. It has the power to influence the public's adoption of health policies and to determine the response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this paper is to enhance understanding of personality characteristics of users who spread information about controversial COVID-19 medical treatments on Twitter.","PeriodicalId":426846,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2020 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW51313.2020.00016","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Social media have become a major source of health information for lay people. It has the power to influence the public's adoption of health policies and to determine the response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this paper is to enhance understanding of personality characteristics of users who spread information about controversial COVID-19 medical treatments on Twitter.