Emergence of knowledge communities and information centralization during the COVID-19 pandemic

Pier Luigi Sacco, Riccardo Gallotti, Federico Pilati, Nicola Castaldo and Manlio De Domenico

Social Science & Medicine, 2021, vol. 285, issue C

Abstract: As COVID-19 spreads worldwide, an infodemic – i.e., an over-abundance of information, reliable or not – spreads across the physical and the digital worlds, triggering behavioral responses which cause public health concern.

Keywords: Global Communication; Infodemic; Public Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114215

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