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Social media and COVID ‐19: Characterizing anti‐quarantine comments on Twitter
Author(s) -
Karami Amir,
Anderson Mackenzie
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.349
Subject(s) - quarantine , covid-19 , social media , mainstream , pandemic , public opinion , internet privacy , social distance , public relations , political science , advertising , business , medicine , virology , computer science , politics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , disease , pathology , outbreak
Social media has become a mainstream channel of communication during the COVID‐19 pandemic. While some studies have been developed on investigating public opinion on social media data regarding COVID‐19 pandemic, there is no study analyzing anti‐quarantine comments on social media. This study has collected and analyzed near 80,000 tweets to understand anti‐quarantine social comments. Using text mining, we found 11 topics representing different issues such as comparing COVID‐19 and flu and health side effects of quarantine. We believe that this study shines a light on public opinion of people who are against quarantine.