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Connie St Louis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • swineFlu the use of twitter as an early warning and risk communication tool in the 2009 swine Flu Pandemic
    ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 2014
    Co-Authors: Patty Kostkova, Martin Szomszor, Connie St Louis
    Abstract:

    The need to improve population monitoring and enhance surveillance of infectious diseases has never been more pressing. Factors such as air travel act as a catalyst in the spread of new and existing viruses. The unprecedented user-generated activity on social networks over the last few years has created real-time streams of personal data that provide an invaluable tool for monitoring and sampling large populations. Epidemic intelligence relies on constant monitoring of online media sources for early warning, detection, and rapid response; however, the real-time information available in social networks provides a new paradigm for the early warning function. The communication of risk in any public health emergency is a complex task for governments and healthcare agencies. This task is made more challenging in the current situation when the public has access to a wide range of online resources, ranging from traditional news channels to information posted on blogs and social networks. Twitter’s strength is its two-way communication nature --- both as an information source but also as a central hub for publishing, disseminating and discovering online media. This study addresses these two challenges by investigating the role of Twitter during the 2009 swine Flu Pandemic by analysing data collected from the SN, and by Twitter using the opposite way for dissemination information through the network. First, we demonstrate the role of the social network for early warning by detecting an upcoming spike in an epidemic before the official surveillance systems by up to two weeks in the U.K. and up to two to three weeks in the U.S. Second, we illustrate how online resources are propagated through Twitter at the time of the WHO’s declaration of the swine Flu “Pandemic”. Our findings indicate that Twitter does favour reputable t bogus information can still leak into the network.

  • Twitter Informatics: Tracking and Understanding Public Reaction during the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic
    2011 IEEE WIC ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2011
    Co-Authors: Martin Szomszor, Patty Kostkova, Connie St Louis
    Abstract:

    Much attention has been focused on Twitter because it serves as a central hub for the publishing, dissemination, and discovery of online media. This is true for both traditional news outlets and user generated content, both of which can vary widely in their journalistic and scientific quality. The recent Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009 highlighted this aspect perfectly, global events that created a large online buzz, with some dubious medical facts leaking into public opinion. This paper presents an investigation into how online resources relating to Swine Flu were discussed on Twitter, with a focus on identifying and analyzing the popularity of trusted information sources (e.g. from quality news outlets and official health agencies). Our findings indicate that reputable sources are more popular than untrusted ones, but that information with poor scientific merit can still leak into to the network and potentially cause harm.

  • Web Intelligence - Twitter Informatics: Tracking and Understanding Public Reaction during the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic
    2011 IEEE WIC ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2011
    Co-Authors: Martin Szomszor, Patty Kostkova, Connie St Louis
    Abstract:

    Much attention has been focused on Twitter because it serves as a central hub for the publishing, dissemination, and discovery of online media. This is true for both traditional news outlets and user generated content, both of which can vary widely in their journalistic and scientific quality. The recent Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009 highlighted this aspect perfectly, global events that created a large online buzz, with some dubious medical facts leaking into public opinion. This paper presents an investigation into how online resources relating to Swine Flu were discussed on Twitter, with a focus on identifying and analyzing the popularity of trusted information sources (e.g. from quality news outlets and official health agencies). Our findings indicate that reputable sources are more popular than untrusted ones, but that information with poor scientific merit can still leak into to the network and potentially cause harm.

Mario Hernández-Álvarez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Flu Pandemic, world power, and contemporary capitalism: building a historical–critical perspective
    International Journal of Public Health, 2020
    Co-Authors: Liliana Henao-kaffure, Mario Hernández-Álvarez
    Abstract:

    Objectives To present a historical–critical analysis of the configuration process of the 2009–2010 Flu Pandemic in order to show the relationships between this process and the organization of world power, and to promote social and political mobilization. Methods Primary and secondary sources on the dynamics of the 2009–2010 Flu Pandemic were studied. The sources were validated by plausibility assessment and historiographical analysis. From a historical–territorial and critical approach, the relations between the world configuration of the Pandemic and the economic, political, and ideological power relations of contemporary capitalism were identified. Results It is revealed that the expanding monopoly of the pig industry provided favorable conditions for the evolutionary explosion of the inFluenza A(H1N1) virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) made decisions that were inclined toward the economic interests of the pig and pharmaceutical industries within the framework of financial-cognitive capitalism. Conclusions The modes of conduct of these institutions and companies materialized the world relations of economic, political, and ideological power of our time, which determined the configuration process of the Pandemic. The worldwide spreading of the virus is barely a trail of the process .

  • Flu Pandemic, world power, and contemporary capitalism: building a historical-critical perspective.
    International journal of public health, 2020
    Co-Authors: Liliana Henao-kaffure, Mario Hernández-Álvarez
    Abstract:

    Objectives To present a historical-critical analysis of the configuration process of the 2009-2010 Flu Pandemic in order to show the relationships between this process and the organization of world power, and to promote social and political mobilization. Methods Primary and secondary sources on the dynamics of the 2009-2010 Flu Pandemic were studied. The sources were validated by plausibility assessment and historiographical analysis. From a historical-territorial and critical approach, the relations between the world configuration of the Pandemic and the economic, political, and ideological power relations of contemporary capitalism were identified. Results It is revealed that the expanding monopoly of the pig industry provided favorable conditions for the evolutionary explosion of the inFluenza A(H1N1) virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) made decisions that were inclined toward the economic interests of the pig and pharmaceutical industries within the framework of financial-cognitive capitalism. Conclusions The modes of conduct of these institutions and companies materialized the world relations of economic, political, and ideological power of our time, which determined the configuration process of the Pandemic. The worldwide spreading of the virus is barely a trail of the process.

Liliana Henao-kaffure - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Flu Pandemic, world power, and contemporary capitalism: building a historical–critical perspective
    International Journal of Public Health, 2020
    Co-Authors: Liliana Henao-kaffure, Mario Hernández-Álvarez
    Abstract:

    Objectives To present a historical–critical analysis of the configuration process of the 2009–2010 Flu Pandemic in order to show the relationships between this process and the organization of world power, and to promote social and political mobilization. Methods Primary and secondary sources on the dynamics of the 2009–2010 Flu Pandemic were studied. The sources were validated by plausibility assessment and historiographical analysis. From a historical–territorial and critical approach, the relations between the world configuration of the Pandemic and the economic, political, and ideological power relations of contemporary capitalism were identified. Results It is revealed that the expanding monopoly of the pig industry provided favorable conditions for the evolutionary explosion of the inFluenza A(H1N1) virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) made decisions that were inclined toward the economic interests of the pig and pharmaceutical industries within the framework of financial-cognitive capitalism. Conclusions The modes of conduct of these institutions and companies materialized the world relations of economic, political, and ideological power of our time, which determined the configuration process of the Pandemic. The worldwide spreading of the virus is barely a trail of the process .

  • Flu Pandemic, world power, and contemporary capitalism: building a historical-critical perspective.
    International journal of public health, 2020
    Co-Authors: Liliana Henao-kaffure, Mario Hernández-Álvarez
    Abstract:

    Objectives To present a historical-critical analysis of the configuration process of the 2009-2010 Flu Pandemic in order to show the relationships between this process and the organization of world power, and to promote social and political mobilization. Methods Primary and secondary sources on the dynamics of the 2009-2010 Flu Pandemic were studied. The sources were validated by plausibility assessment and historiographical analysis. From a historical-territorial and critical approach, the relations between the world configuration of the Pandemic and the economic, political, and ideological power relations of contemporary capitalism were identified. Results It is revealed that the expanding monopoly of the pig industry provided favorable conditions for the evolutionary explosion of the inFluenza A(H1N1) virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) made decisions that were inclined toward the economic interests of the pig and pharmaceutical industries within the framework of financial-cognitive capitalism. Conclusions The modes of conduct of these institutions and companies materialized the world relations of economic, political, and ideological power of our time, which determined the configuration process of the Pandemic. The worldwide spreading of the virus is barely a trail of the process.

Patty Kostkova - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • swineFlu the use of twitter as an early warning and risk communication tool in the 2009 swine Flu Pandemic
    ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 2014
    Co-Authors: Patty Kostkova, Martin Szomszor, Connie St Louis
    Abstract:

    The need to improve population monitoring and enhance surveillance of infectious diseases has never been more pressing. Factors such as air travel act as a catalyst in the spread of new and existing viruses. The unprecedented user-generated activity on social networks over the last few years has created real-time streams of personal data that provide an invaluable tool for monitoring and sampling large populations. Epidemic intelligence relies on constant monitoring of online media sources for early warning, detection, and rapid response; however, the real-time information available in social networks provides a new paradigm for the early warning function. The communication of risk in any public health emergency is a complex task for governments and healthcare agencies. This task is made more challenging in the current situation when the public has access to a wide range of online resources, ranging from traditional news channels to information posted on blogs and social networks. Twitter’s strength is its two-way communication nature --- both as an information source but also as a central hub for publishing, disseminating and discovering online media. This study addresses these two challenges by investigating the role of Twitter during the 2009 swine Flu Pandemic by analysing data collected from the SN, and by Twitter using the opposite way for dissemination information through the network. First, we demonstrate the role of the social network for early warning by detecting an upcoming spike in an epidemic before the official surveillance systems by up to two weeks in the U.K. and up to two to three weeks in the U.S. Second, we illustrate how online resources are propagated through Twitter at the time of the WHO’s declaration of the swine Flu “Pandemic”. Our findings indicate that Twitter does favour reputable t bogus information can still leak into the network.

  • Twitter Informatics: Tracking and Understanding Public Reaction during the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic
    2011 IEEE WIC ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2011
    Co-Authors: Martin Szomszor, Patty Kostkova, Connie St Louis
    Abstract:

    Much attention has been focused on Twitter because it serves as a central hub for the publishing, dissemination, and discovery of online media. This is true for both traditional news outlets and user generated content, both of which can vary widely in their journalistic and scientific quality. The recent Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009 highlighted this aspect perfectly, global events that created a large online buzz, with some dubious medical facts leaking into public opinion. This paper presents an investigation into how online resources relating to Swine Flu were discussed on Twitter, with a focus on identifying and analyzing the popularity of trusted information sources (e.g. from quality news outlets and official health agencies). Our findings indicate that reputable sources are more popular than untrusted ones, but that information with poor scientific merit can still leak into to the network and potentially cause harm.

  • Web Intelligence - Twitter Informatics: Tracking and Understanding Public Reaction during the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic
    2011 IEEE WIC ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2011
    Co-Authors: Martin Szomszor, Patty Kostkova, Connie St Louis
    Abstract:

    Much attention has been focused on Twitter because it serves as a central hub for the publishing, dissemination, and discovery of online media. This is true for both traditional news outlets and user generated content, both of which can vary widely in their journalistic and scientific quality. The recent Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009 highlighted this aspect perfectly, global events that created a large online buzz, with some dubious medical facts leaking into public opinion. This paper presents an investigation into how online resources relating to Swine Flu were discussed on Twitter, with a focus on identifying and analyzing the popularity of trusted information sources (e.g. from quality news outlets and official health agencies). Our findings indicate that reputable sources are more popular than untrusted ones, but that information with poor scientific merit can still leak into to the network and potentially cause harm.

Emily R. Smith - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Public views of the UK media and government reaction to the 2009 swine Flu Pandemic.
    BMC public health, 2010
    Co-Authors: Shona Hilton, Emily R. Smith
    Abstract:

    Background: The first cases of inFluenza A/H1N1 (swine Flu) were confirmed in the UK on 27th April 2009, after a novel virus first identified in Mexico rapidly evolved into a Pandemic. The swine Flu outbreak was the first Pandemic in more than 40 years and for many, their first encounter with a major inFluenza outbreak. This study examines public understandings of the Pandemic, exploring how people deciphered the threat and perceived they could control the risks. Methods: Purposive sampling was used to recruit seventy three people (61 women and 12 men) to take part in 14 focus group discussions around the time of the second wave in swine Flu cases. Results: These discussions showed that there was little evidence of the public over-reacting, that people believed the threat of contracting swine Flu was inevitable, and that they assessed their own self-efficacy for protecting against it to be low. Respondents assessed a greater risk to their health from the vaccine than from the disease. Such findings could have led to apathy about following the UK Governments recommended health protective behaviours, and a sub-optimal level of vaccine uptake. More generally, people were confused about the difference between seasonal inFluenza and swine Flu and their vaccines. Conclusions: This research suggests a gap in public understandings which could hinder attempts to communicate about novel Flu viruses in the future. There was general support for the government’s handling of the Pandemic, although its public awareness campaign was deemed ineffectual as few people changed their current hand hygiene practices. There was less support for the media who were deemed to have over-reported the swine Flu Pandemic.