Design, Construction, and Planning, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Int J Health Plann Manage. 2022 Sep;37(5):2752-2766. doi: 10.1002/hpm.3500. Epub 2022 May 15.
This study highlights how people get important information on COVID-19 according to age groups by employing social network analysis for Twitter. First, people have different key players according to the age groups. For example, while universities and journals play a crucial role in the adults' networks, news media have a significant impact on the elderly's networks. Second, people have different characteristics of social network groups according to age. For example, people belong to small groups, and barely communicate with others across the groups in the teens' networks, whereas people in each group have strong communication networks with other groups in the elderly's networks. Third, this study shows that people utilise different domains to share COVID-19 information according to age. For example, while twitter.com ranks first in the children, teens, and elderly's networks, cnn.com places first in the adults' networks.
本研究通过对 Twitter 进行社交网络分析,展示了不同年龄组的人是如何获取有关 COVID-19 的重要信息的。首先,人们根据年龄组有不同的关键人物。例如,大学和期刊在成年人的网络中起着至关重要的作用,而新闻媒体对老年人的网络有重大影响。其次,人们根据年龄有不同的社交网络群体特征。例如,青少年的网络中,人们属于小群体,几乎不会与群体之外的人交流,而老年人的网络中,每个群体内部的人都与其他群体有很强的交流网络。第三,本研究表明,人们根据年龄使用不同的领域来分享 COVID-19 信息。例如,在儿童、青少年和老年人的网络中,twitter.com 排名第一,而在成年人的网络中,cnn.com 排名第一。