Twitter Followers of Canadian Political and Health Authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Are Their Activity and Interests?

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F21%3A50018050" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/21:50018050 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/D26B0C7F1568964539C95D001D0EEB6E/S0008423921000020a.pdf/twitter-followers-of-canadian-political-and-health-authorities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-what-are-their-activity-and-interests.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/D26B0C7F1568964539C95D001D0EEB6E/S0008423921000020a.pdf/twitter-followers-of-canadian-political-and-health-authorities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-what-are-their-activity-and-interests.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008423921000020" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0008423921000020</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Twitter Followers of Canadian Political and Health Authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Are Their Activity and Interests?
Original language description
I examined the use of Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic to find out how many Twitter users started to follow relevant Canadian political and health authorities, and I investigated their activity and interests. To this end, I analyzed 398,037 Twitter accounts. The results reveal that the Twitter accounts of relevant authorities gained a significant number of new Twitter followers during the pandemic. The Twitter users who joined during the pandemic were rather passive; they tweeted and liked fewer tweets than Twitter users who registered in the months prior to the pandemic. They also chose to follow Twitter accounts predominantly related to news, politics and governmental agencies. These findings suggest that during the pandemic, numerous information-seeking citizens joined Twitter for the purpose of obtaining information about public health matters, which in turn suggests that authorities should incorporate Twitter into their information dissemination tools, especially during emergencies, to meet the public demand for information.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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