论文标题
在美国持续在线放大Covid-19的精英
Sustained Online Amplification of COVID-19 Elites in the United States
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论文摘要
Covid-19大流行的持续，流畅性的性质要求个人定期寻求有关最佳健康实践，当地社区传播和公共卫生指南的信息。如果没有对美国大流行的统一回应以及联邦和地方官员的清晰，一致的指令，人们已经使用社交媒体来集体众群体Covid-19 Elites，这是一小部分值得信赖的COVID-199信息来源。在美国，我们对美国众包精英进行了人口普查，他们在大流行期间在Twitter上受到了持续关注。使用与美国公共选民注册记录相关的Twitter用户小组的混合方法方法，我们发现新闻工作者，媒体和政治账目一直在Covid-19中始终放大，而流行病学家，公共卫生官员和医疗专业人员只构成了Twitter上的Covid-19 Elities的一小部分。我们表明，在人口统计群体之间，199名精英群体各不相同，并且各个群体和精英人口的种族，地理和政治相似之处和差异都有显着的种族，地理和政治相似之处。考虑到这种变化，我们讨论了使用众包Covid-19精英的在线声音不成比例的潜力，以公平地促进及时的公共健康信息并减轻猖ramp的错误信息。
The ongoing, fluid nature of the COVID-19 pandemic requires individuals to regularly seek information about best health practices, local community spreading, and public health guidelines. In the absence of a unified response to the pandemic in the United States and clear, consistent directives from federal and local officials, people have used social media to collectively crowdsource COVID-19 elites, a small set of trusted COVID-19 information sources. We take a census of COVID-19 crowdsourced elites in the United States who have received sustained attention on Twitter during the pandemic. Using a mixed methods approach with a panel of Twitter users linked to public U.S. voter registration records, we find that journalists, media outlets, and political accounts have been consistently amplified around COVID-19, while epidemiologists, public health officials, and medical professionals make up only a small portion of all COVID-19 elites on Twitter. We show that COVID-19 elites vary considerably across demographic groups, and that there are notable racial, geographic, and political similarities and disparities between various groups and the demographics of their elites. With this variation in mind, we discuss the potential for using the disproportionate online voice of crowdsourced COVID-19 elites to equitably promote timely public health information and mitigate rampant misinformation.
