Who do you trust? The digital destruction of shared situational awareness and the COVID-19 infodemic

Bunker, Deborah

doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102201

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“…Online education could provide support not only to students but also could help to promote the right education to all [2], specifically to vulnerable communities [40] [65]. From infodemic methods [66] to more common innovations and digital technologies [67], the use of such platforms should not neglect the inequalities [68], privacy [69], and governance [70].…”

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Reflection on Early Lessons for Urban Resilience and Public Health Enhancement during the COVID-19

Cheshmehzangi¹

2020

Health

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With growing impacts on public health systems and economies across the world, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, we need to reflect on some of the early lessons for urban resilience enhancement. In this paper, a brief discussion is made through several recommendations that could make our cities more prepared specially in the probable future waves of this current outbreak or potential spikes in infections or clustered cases. The experiences from global examples highlighted in this study address what has worked in the past few months at the spatial levels of communities and cities. The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the deficiencies and shortfall across multiple sectors of the urban systems and enabled us to identify risks, challenges, and pathways to better city management. With regard to urban resilience enhancement, the negative impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak are assessed to suggest a checklist of what could be done through early preparedness. The findings are novel in ongoing research related to urban resilience and public health during the COVID-19 pandemic. The early lessons here reflect on the ongoing situation of this pandemic outbreak, but could effectually help to enhance the resilience of our cities and communities, and especially addressing the protection of public health and societal well-being. The findings contribute to major sectors of urban resilience, city management, and public health. The recommendations from this study could be utilised and adapted in any context, allowing for the consideration of all-inclusive decision-making and much-enhanced planning processes.

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Reflection on Early Lessons for Urban Resilience and Public Health Enhancement during the COVID-19

Cheshmehzangi¹

2020

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“…The COVID pandemic has been classified as an "infodemic" with emerging scientific findings, political responses, media coverage, and individual impressions all shared on social media (Bunker 2020). COVID-19 has created conspiracy theories around the origins of the virus (lab-created bioweapon), prominent individuals (Bill Gates), technology (5G), foreign countries (China destabilizing the west), and local governments (Shahsavari et al 2020).…”

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Tourism and the COVID-(Mis)infodemic

Williams

Wassler

Ferdinand

2020

Journal of Travel Research

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In addition to being formally defined as a pandemic, COVID-19 has been classified as an “infodemic” and “(mis)infodemic.” As an “infodemic,” the information environment on COVID-19 is constantly evolving, with emerging scientific findings, political responses, media coverage, and individual impressions all shared on social media. Initial positions on behaviors and potential treatments were presented and then discarded because of low efficacy or improper research procedures. Further, there has been a fragmented geopolitical response with differing political systems exhibiting varying approaches to decision making and health outcomes, which has lead to confusion of the public. As a “misinfodemic,” COVID-19 discussions have also attracted actors seeking to share misinformation enabled and exacerbated by social media networks, which include willful distortions as well as conspiracy theories. Combined, this (mis)infodemic can change risk perceptions of travel, resulting in travel patterns based on technological, regulatory, and perceived behavioral homophily.

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“…For example, artificial intelligence can be used to analyze the interaction and participation of social media content related to COVID-19 [18], collect comments and posts related to the keyword "COVID-19", and do natural language processing (NLP) to analyze people's approval or questioning of official epidemic prevention measures and strategies. On the other hand, artificial intelligence models can help identify accurate and reliable news articles [19], such as important guiding principles in epidemic prevention and strengthen official advice. In addition, natural language processing ((NLP)) is used to identify suspected rumors and publish true information to refute rumors in real time so as to help appease people and stabilize social anxiety.…”

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The Application and Legal Issues of Artificial Intelligence in the Global Prevention and Control of the COVID-19 Epidemic

Pan¹

2021

Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2020)

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Artificial intelligence technology has played an important role in the global prevention and control of the COVID-19 pneumonia pandemic , but there are also some legal problems. In this paper, firstly, the contribution of artificial intelligence technology in COVID-19 prevention and control is analyzed and summarized, which involves many fields where artificial intelligence plays a key role: from virus protein molecular research, medical diagnosis and treatment, infectious disease propagation prediction and early warning, social public opinion analysis and rumor recognition, and further discusses the subdivision direction and development potential of artificial intelligence in various fields. Secondly, the legal and ethical problems in the application of artificial intelligence in epidemic prevention and control are summarized into three aspects: personal privacy and data protection, intellectual property rights, and network security risks, and the causes and conditions of these problems are analyzed in detail, and the possible temporary solutions are discussed. Finally, it calls for strengthening international cooperation and building a global collaborative research and development system for artificial intelligence epidemic prevention and control; It is expected that China will speed up the formulation of laws and regulations related to artificial intelligence and give full play to the guarantee role of laws and regulations as soon as possible; Thinking and looking forward to the global governance pattern in the post-epidemic era.

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Who do you trust? The digital destruction of shared situational awareness and the COVID-19 infodemic

Cited by 144 publications

References 22 publications

Reflection on Early Lessons for Urban Resilience and Public Health Enhancement during the COVID-19

Reflection on Early Lessons for Urban Resilience and Public Health Enhancement during the COVID-19

Tourism and the COVID-(Mis)infodemic

The Application and Legal Issues of Artificial Intelligence in the Global Prevention and Control of the COVID-19 Epidemic

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