¿Retuitear o responder? Covid-19 y Twitter. El caso de la ciudad de Bahía Blanca (Argentina)

The unprecedented global context caused by COVID-19 has generated various changes in society and forced the governments of different countries to adopt containment measures. However, this crisis occurs in a globalized international context, where the mass use of various digital platforms allows the generation of a significant amount of information and the study of interactions between individuals. In this work, in particular, the impact on public opinion about the coronavirus crisis in the city of Bahía Blanca (Argentina) is analyzed from the Twitter digital platform, trying to identify the main actors in the production of messages, find out which users having a greater capacity to control its diffusion and measure the relevance or authority in the interactions analyzed using Social Network Analysis techniques. The main result is the fragmentation of information between individuals, being the resulting interaction scarce. On the other hand, it was found that in the analysis of retweets the main actors are not relevant outside the digital platform, while in the analysis of the responses the main actors are characterized by having a prominent role in the political scene or in communications locally.El contexto global inédito a causa de la COVID-19 ha generado diversos cambios en la sociedad y obligado a los gobiernos de los distintos países a adoptar medidas de confinamiento. Sin embargo, esta crisis se da en un marco internacional globalizado, donde la masificación del uso de diversas plataformas digitales permite generar una importante cantidad de información y estudiar las interacciones entre los individuos. En este trabajo, particularmente, se analiza desde la plataforma digital de Twitter el impacto en la opinión pública de la repercusión de la crisis del coronavirus en la ciudad de Bahía Blanca (Argentina), pretendiendo identificar a los actores principales en la producción de los mensajes, averiguar qué usuarios son los que tienen una mayor capacidad para controlar su difusión y medir la relevancia o autoridad en las interacciones analizadas mediante técnicas de Análisis de Redes Sociales. Como principal resultado sobresale la fragmentación de la información entre los individuos, siendo la interacción resultante escasa. Por otra parte, se encontró que en el análisis de retuits los principales actores no resultan relevantes fuera de la plataforma digital, mientras que en el análisis de las respuestas los principales actores sí se caracterizan por tener un rol prominente en la escena política o las comunicaciones a nivel local

Retweet or reply? Covid-19 and Twitter. The case of the city of Bahía Blanca (Argentina)

El contexto global inédito a causa de la COVID-19 ha generado diversos cambios en la sociedad y obligado a los gobiernos de los distintos países a adoptar medidas de confinamiento. Sin embargo, esta crisis se da en un marco internacional globalizado, donde la masificación del uso de diversas plataformas digitales permite generar una importante cantidad de información y estudiar las interacciones entre los individuos. En este trabajo, particularmente, se analiza desde la plataforma digital de Twitter el impacto en la opinión pública de la repercusión de la crisis del coronavirus en la ciudad de Bahía Blanca (Argentina), pretendiendo identificar a los actores principales en la producción de los mensajes, averiguar qué usuarios son los que tienen una mayor capacidad para controlar su difusión y medir la relevancia o autoridad en las interacciones analizadas mediante técnicas de Análisis de Redes Sociales. Como principal resultado sobresale la fragmentación de la información entre los individuos, siendo la interacción resultante escasa. Por otra parte, se encontró que en el análisis de retuits los principales actores no resultan relevantes fuera de la plataforma digital, mientras que en el análisis de las respuestas los principales actores sí se caracterizan por tener un rol prominente en la escena política o las comunicaciones a nivel local.The unprecedented global context caused by COVID-19 has generated various changes in society and forced the governments of different countries to adopt containment measures. However, this crisis occurs in a globalized international context, where the mass use of various digital platforms allows the generation of a significant amount of information and the study of interactions between individuals. In this work, in particular, the impact on public opinion about the coronavirus crisis in the city of Bahía Blanca (Argentina) is analysed from the Twitter digital platform, trying to identify the main actors in the production of messages , find out which users having a greater capacity to control its diffusion and measure the relevance or authority in the interactions analysed using Social Network Analysis techniques. The main result is the fragmentation of information between individuals, being the resulting interaction scarce. On the other hand, it was found that in the analysis of retweets the main actors are not relevant outside the digital platform, while in the analysis of the responses the main actors are characterized by having a prominent role in the political scene or in communications locally.Fil: Gutierrez, Emiliano Martin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economía. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Virdis, Juan Marcelo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economía. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Meller, Leandro Matías. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economía. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur; ArgentinaFil: De Simón, Federico. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economía; ArgentinaFil: Gurovich, Carlos. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economía; ArgentinaFil: Fernández Leyes, Lucas Ezequiel. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economía; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Derecho; Argentin

News, networks and users in the Hybrid Media system: report

95 p.Descargas previas 4 The technological, economic and credibility crises that media organisations have been simultaneously grappling with during this period have coincided with the rise of new actors and platforms with a vast potential for global communication, such as Google and Facebook, and the empowerment of audiences ready and able to generate content on an unprecedented scale, especially via social networks. While conventional newspapers have attempted to cope with the ongoing transformation of the news market by implementing tepid innovations, their bid to maintain control over the defining aspects of journalistic practice has been constantly checked by the entry of new platforms, the proliferation of new spaces for debate and audiences’ growing appetite for sharing selfgenerated content.News, networks and users in the Hybrid Media System (Newsnet) is a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (RTI2018-095775-B-C41/42/44

News, networks and users in the Hybrid Media system: report

95 p.Descargas previas 4 The technological, economic and credibility crises that media organisations have been simultaneously grappling with during this period have coincided with the rise of new actors and platforms with a vast potential for global communication, such as Google and Facebook, and the empowerment of audiences ready and able to generate content on an unprecedented scale, especially via social networks. While conventional newspapers have attempted to cope with the ongoing transformation of the news market by implementing tepid innovations, their bid to maintain control over the defining aspects of journalistic practice has been constantly checked by the entry of new platforms, the proliferation of new spaces for debate and audiences’ growing appetite for sharing selfgenerated content.News, networks and users in the Hybrid Media System (Newsnet) is a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (RTI2018-095775-B-C41/42/44

Fake news and coronavirus: Detecting key players and trends through analysis of Twitter conversations

The global health crisis arising from the expansion of Covid-19 has led the WHO to coin the term infodemics to define a situation of fear and insecurity in which the dissemination of false information has become widespread. These hoaxes take advantage of this type of emotion to spread faster than the coronavirus itself, generating fear and distrust in the population. The spread of these lies, part of which circulates on social networks, is dangerous because it affects health and can make the contagion worse and cause people to die. This research aims to analyse and visualise the network created around the false news circulating on Twitter about the coronavirus pandemic using the technique of social network analysis. NodeXL Pro software has been used. Several measures of network centrality have been used to generate the network of connections between users, to represent their interaction patterns and to identify the key actors within the network. In addition, a semantic network has also been created to discover the differences in the way groups of people talk about the topic. The results show that the situation in the USA dominates the conversation, despite the fact that at that time there were hardly any cases, and Europe had become the global epicentre of the Covid-19. Despite reports of inaction by journalists and critics of the Trump government, there are several weeks in which disinformation distracts from taking more effective action and actually preventing contagion. Moreover, among the actors with the most prominent positions in the network, there is little presence of scientists and institutions that help to disprove the hoaxes and explain the hygiene measures.

Fake news y coronavirus: detección de los principales actores y tendencias a través del análisis de las conversaciones en Twitter // Fake news and coronavirus: Detecting key players and trends through analysis of Twitter conversations

The global health crisis arising from the expansion of Covid-19 has led the WHO to coin the term infodemics to define a situation of fear and insecurity in which the dissemination of false information has become widespread. These hoaxes take advantage of this type of emotion to spread faster than the coronavirus itself, generating fear and distrust in the population. The spread of these lies, part of which circulates on social networks, is dangerous because it affects health and can make the contagion worse and cause people to die. This research aims to analyse and visualise the network created around the false news circulating on Twitter about the coronavirus pandemic using the technique of social network analysis. NodeXL Pro software has been used. Several measures of network centrality have been used to generate the network of connections between users, to represent their interaction patterns and to identify the key actors within the network. In addition, a semantic network has also been created to discover the differences in the way groups of people talk about the topic. The results show that the situation in the USA dominates the conversation, despite the fact that at that time there were hardly any cases, and Europe had become the global epicentre of the Covid-19. Despite reports of inaction by journalists and critics of the Trump government, there are several weeks in which disinformation distracts from taking more effective action and actually preventing contagion. Moreover, among the actors with the most prominent positions in the network, there is little presence of scientists and institutions that help to disprove the hoaxes and explain the hygiene measures

Fake news y coronavirus: detección de los principales actores y tendencias a través del análisis de las conversaciones en Twitter // Fake news and coronavirus: Detecting key players and trends through analysis of Twitter conversations

The global health crisis arising from the expansion of Covid-19 has led the WHO to coin the term infodemics to define a situation of fear and insecurity in which the dissemination of false information has become widespread. These hoaxes take advantage of this type of emotion to spread faster than the coronavirus itself, generating fear and distrust in the population. The spread of these lies, part of which circulates on social networks, is dangerous because it affects health and can make the contagion worse and cause people to die. This research aims to analyse and visualise the network created around the false news circulating on Twitter about the coronavirus pandemic using the technique of social network analysis. NodeXL Pro software has been used. Several measures of network centrality have been used to generate the network of connections between users, to represent their interaction patterns and to identify the key actors within the network. In addition, a semantic network has also been created to discover the differences in the way groups of people talk about the topic. The results show that the situation in the USA dominates the conversation, despite the fact that at that time there were hardly any cases, and Europe had become the global epicentre of the Covid-19. Despite reports of inaction by journalists and critics of the Trump government, there are several weeks in which disinformation distracts from taking more effective action and actually preventing contagion. Moreover, among the actors with the most prominent positions in the network, there is little presence of scientists and institutions that help to disprove the hoaxes and explain the hygiene measures