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

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Canadian journal of political science

ISSN

0008-4239

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

54

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

134-149

Kód UT WoS článku

000637381400009

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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