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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a conference proceedings (inc. abstract) that has been published in its final definitive form by Springer, Cham, 2020.
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An outbreak of the Zika virus in 2016 caused great concern amongthe general public and generated a burst of tweets. The aim of this study was todevelop a better understanding of the types of discussions taking place. Tweetswere retrieved from the peak of the Zika outbreak (as identified by GoogleTrends). Tweets were then filtered and entered in NVivo to be analysed usingthematic analysis. It was found that tweets on Zika revolved around seven keythemes: pregnancy, travel and the Olympics, mosquitoes and conspiracy, healthorganisations, health information, travel and tracking, and general discussionsaround Zika. Our results are likely to be of interest to public healthorganisations disseminating information related to future outbreaks of Zika andwe develop a set of preliminary recommendations for health authorities.
Author(s): Ahmed W, Bath PA, Sbaffi L, Demartini G
Editor(s): Meiselwitz G.
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Social Computing and Social Media. Participation, User Experience, Consumer Experience, and Applications of Social Computing. HCII 2020
Year of Conference: 2020
Pages: 447-458
Online publication date: 10/07/2020
Acceptance date: 05/03/2020
Date deposited: 13/03/2020
ISSN: 0302-9743
Publisher: Springer, Cham
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49576-3_32
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-49576-3_32
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Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISBN: 9783030495756
