论文标题
将地理出口到虚拟景观：本地讨论的全球大流行
Exporting Geography Into A Virtual Landscape: A Global Pandemic Locally Discussed
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论文摘要
在社交媒体时代，COVID-19的大流行一直是全球健康危机。即使虚拟环境使互动成为可能，无论物理位置如何，大流行期间许多最紧迫的问题 - 案例计数，锁定政策，疫苗的可用性 - 都以当地的方式进行了。反映了这个地方，形成的许多在线共互联社区与物理位置紧密相关，在不同的空间尺度上，从城市到国家到整个全球平台。这为研究大流行的现实世界地理如何转化为虚拟景观。通过分析有关Reddit的近300个与地理联系的共同讨论社区，我们在三个方面展示了这些讨论是如何在地理上和时间上组织的：人们在谈论什么，他们在谈论谁，以及他们如何自我组织这些对话？
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global health crisis playing out in the age of social media. Even though the virtual environment makes interaction possible regardless of physical location, many of the most pressing issues during the pandemic -- case counts, lockdown policies, vaccine availability -- have played out in an intensely local fashion. Reflecting this locality, many of the online COVID communities that formed have been closely tied to physical location, at different spatial scales ranging from cities to countries to entire global platforms. This provides an opportunity to study how the real-world geography of the pandemic translates into a virtual landscape. By analyzing almost 300 geographically-linked COVID discussion communities on Reddit, we show how these discussions were organized geographically and temporally in three aspects: what were people talking about, who were they talking about it with, and how did they self-organize these conversations?
