Trends, Politics, Sentiments, and Misinformation: Understanding People's Reactions to COVID-19 During Its Early Stages

• Published in: Disease Control Through Social Network Surveillance pp. 77 - 88
• Main Authors: Wahab, Omar Abdel, Mustafa, Ali, Bamatakina, André Bertrand Abisseck
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2022; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks
• Subjects: COVID-19 pandemic; Data analytics; Misinformation; Sentiment analysis; Social media; Spatiotemporal analysis
• ISBN: 3031078683; 9783031078682
• ISSN: 2190-5428; 2190-5436
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-07869-9_4

The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 resulted in large volumes of data shared on different social media platforms. Analyzing and visualizing these data is doubtlessly essential to having a deep understanding of the pandemic’s impacts on people’s lives and their reactions to them. In this work, we conduct...