I am what I am – Convergence Behaviors on Online Discussion About the Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines

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dc.contributor.authorBui, Tung
dc.contributor.authorLam, Quang Loc
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-24T17:39:55Z
dc.date.available2021-12-24T17:39:55Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-04
dc.description.abstractUsing data from an online discussion on the risk of getting blood clot from Johnson & Johnson vaccine moderated by the New York Times Facebook page, we investigated the presence of eleven convergence behaviors, and the interaction between them. While recent research focuses on misinformation or fake news as the object of analysis, we argue in this exploratory research that it is equally important to analyze who and, whenever possible, why people engage in information exchange given a particular crisis, hence their convergence behaviors. Mapping the types of postings to their authors would be an additional step to design, develop, implement, and possibly, regulate online discussions for a more effective and just civic engagement. As we witness a mass manipulation of public opinion, our findings suggest that the number of netizens that seek to correct misinformation is growing. If the society goal is to swiftly rebut as many conspiracy theories as possible, we advocate for a dual social media control strategy: restrain as much as possible the misinformation spreaders/manipulators and encourage correctors to help propagate countervailing facts.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2022.304
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-5-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/79637
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectDisaster Information, Resilience, for Emergency and Crisis Technologies
dc.subjectconvergence behaviors
dc.subjectcrisis communication
dc.subjectsocial media
dc.titleI am what I am – Convergence Behaviors on Online Discussion About the Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines
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