Online Information Review: Volume 45 Issue 4

Editorial

Eugenia Siapera, Kalpana Shankar

The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises

Derek R Slagle, J.J. McIntyre, April Chatham-Carpenter, Heather Ann Reed

The purpose of this study is to examine the types of information that were shared by the institution, and faculty/staff responses to the information shared, with the goal of…

Health information communication during a pandemic crisis: analysis of CDC Facebook Page during COVID-19

Sue Yeon Syn

This study investigates the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Facebook Page to examine what kinds of information is shared to public using Facebook and how Facebook…

The unknown knowns: a graph-based approach for temporal COVID-19 literature mining

Ulya Bayram, Runia Roy, Aqil Assalil, Lamia BenHiba

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a remarkable volume of research literature, and scientists are increasingly in need of intelligent tools to cut through the noise and uncover…

A cross-national diagnosis of infodemics: comparing the topical and temporal features of misinformation around COVID-19 in China, India, the US, Germany and France

Jing Zeng, Chung-hong Chan

This study empirically investigates how the COVID-infodemic manifests differently in different languages and in different countries. This paper focuses on the topical and temporal…

The nature of rapid response to COVID-19 in Latin America: an examination of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico

Janaina Pamplona da Costa, André Luiz Sica de Campos, Paulo Roberto Cintra, Liz Felix Greco, Johan Hendrik Poker

The coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic mobilized the international scientific community in the search for its cure and containment. The purpose of this paper is to examine the…

Silently withdrawn or retracted preprints related to Covid-19 are a scholarly threat and a potential public health risk: theoretical arguments and suggested recommendations

Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

Thousands of preprints related to Covid-19 have effused into the academic literature. Even though these are not peer-reviewed documents and have not been vetted by medical or…

Contrasted media frames of AI during the COVID-19 pandemic: a content analysis of US and European newspapers

Jerome Duberry, Sabrya Hamidi

Despite the growing interest in AI, the scientific literature lacks multinational studies that examine how mainstream media depict AI applications. This paper is one of the first…

Tackling COVID-19 from below: civic participation among online neighbourhood network users during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cato Waeterloos, Jonas De Meulenaere, Michel Walrave, Koen Ponnet

Following the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), many forms of bottom-up civic action emerged as ways to collectively “flatten the curve” and tackle the crisis. In…

Corona crisis chronicle: Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary (2020) as an act of sousveillance

Jana Fedtke, Mohammed Ibahrine, Yuting Wang

This paper analyzes Fang Fang's 2020 Wuhan Diary‐Dispatches from a Quarantined City, to show how the author communicates the coronavirus crisis in Wuhan in a global information…

Contact tracing apps for self-quarantine in South Korea: rethinking datafication and dataveillance in the COVID-19 age

Claire Seungeun Lee

The first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was documented in China, and the virus was soon to be introduced to its neighboring country – South Korea. South Korea, one…

Infodemics during COVID-19: resources and recommendations to combat it

Javier Cifuentes-Faura

This paper attempts to explain the infodemics that the coronavirus crisis has generated through the dissemination of fake news, which can lead people and institutions to make…

The presumed influence of digital misinformation: examining US public’s support for governmental restrictions versus corrective action in the COVID-19 pandemic

Yang Cheng, Yunjuan Luo

Informed by the third-person effects (TPE) theory, this study aims to analyze restrictive versus corrective actions in response to the perceived TPE of misinformation on social…

Responsive stewardship and library advocacy in dystopian times: using information from the Civil Rights Movement and 1984 to strengthen libraries

Lily Hunter, Sarah A. Buchanan

The authors ask the question of how libraries can advocate for themselves and for those who most need the library during the pandemic, and evaluate how the authors adapt to a…