论文标题

高度转推的早期Covid -19推文的主题分析:共识,信息,异议和锁定生活

A thematic analysis of highly retweeted early COVID -19 tweets: Consensus, information, dissent, and lockdown life

论文作者

Thelwall, Mike, Thelwall, Saheeda

论文摘要

目的:公众对Covid-19和社会距离的态度对于减少其传播至关重要。因此,重要的是要了解所有主要形式(包括社交媒体)的公共反应和信息传播。本文调查了在公众对Covid-19的早期阶段在Twitter上反映的重要问题。设计/方法/方法:对2020年3月10日至29日在Covid-19的最转推英语推文的主题分析。发现:发现的87个合格推文确定的主要主题是:1400万转推的1400万个推文是:锁定寿命;对社会限制的态度;政治;安全消息; 19岁的人;支持关键工人;工作;和Covid-19-19个事实/新闻。研究局限性/含义:Twitter扮演着许多积极的角色,主要是通过非官方推文。用户分享了社会疏远的信息,帮助建立了对社会疏远,批评政府的回应,对关键工人的支持,并帮助彼此应对社会隔离的支持。一些不支持社会距离的流行推文表明,政府信息有时会失败。实际意义:将来的公共卫生运动可能会考虑鼓励基层社交网络活动以支持竞选目标。在方法论层面,分析转发计数强调政治并忽略了实际实施问题。独创性/价值:这是对COVID-19与COVID相关的一般转发的首次定性分析。

Purpose: Public attitudes towards COVID-19 and social distancing are critical in reducing its spread. It is therefore important to understand public reactions and information dissemination in all major forms, including on social media. This article investigates important issues reflected on Twitter in the early stages of the public reaction to COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach: A thematic analysis of the most retweeted English-language tweets mentioning COVID-19 during March 10-29, 2020. Findings: The main themes identified for the 87 qualifying tweets accounting for 14 million retweets were: lockdown life; attitude towards social restrictions; politics; safety messages; people with COVID-19; support for key workers; work; and COVID-19 facts/news. Research limitations/implications: Twitter played many positive roles, mainly through unofficial tweets. Users shared social distancing information, helped build support for social distancing, criticised government responses, expressed support for key workers, and helped each other cope with social isolation. A few popular tweets not supporting social distancing show that government messages sometimes failed. Practical implications: Public health campaigns in future may consider encouraging grass roots social web activity to support campaign goals. At a methodological level, analysing retweet counts emphasised politics and ignored practical implementation issues. Originality/value: This is the first qualitative analysis of general COVID-19-related retweeting.

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