The popularity of contradictory information about COVID-19 vaccine on social media in China

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Highlights:

• Content and sentiment analysis, k-medoids clustering for feature extraction according to systematic and heuristic information processing modes.

• Health Belief Models, Planned Behavior Theory for topic, attitude coding.

• Information-feature networks to visualize features' centrality and clustering to detect users' posting patterns.

• Differences in text, display-dimension, topic, sentiment, readability, poster of contradictory information.

• Contextual features impact more on information popularity than content ones.

摘要

•Content and sentiment analysis, k-medoids clustering for feature extraction according to systematic and heuristic information processing modes.•Health Belief Models, Planned Behavior Theory for topic, attitude coding.•Information-feature networks to visualize features' centrality and clustering to detect users' posting patterns.•Differences in text, display-dimension, topic, sentiment, readability, poster of contradictory information.•Contextual features impact more on information popularity than content ones.

论文关键词:COVID-19 vaccine,Weibo,Attitude,Information popularity,Content feature,Contextual feature

论文评审过程:Received 8 January 2022, Revised 1 March 2022, Accepted 1 May 2022, Available online 5 May 2022, Version of Record 9 May 2022.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107320