Publications by authors named "Francesca Comunello"
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- TikTok gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an analysis of vaccine-related videos on the platform, focusing on both high-engagement content and those from vaccine skeptics.
- Researchers analyzed 754 Top Videos and 180 Vaccine Sceptics' videos from January 2020 to March 2021, revealing that the majority of Top Videos (40.5%) supported vaccines, while over 95% of skeptic videos were discouraging.
- The study found that vaccine promotion often came from healthcare professionals, with common themes including herd immunity; meanwhile, skeptic videos tended to focus on conspiracy theories and personal freedom, indicating a potential lower level of affective polarization on TikTok compared to other platforms.
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- Social media posts are used to share opinions about vaccines, and a special computer program can quickly analyze these opinions in tweets from Italy.
- The analysis involved collecting tweets between 2019 and 2021 and sorting them into three groups: positive, neutral, and negative about vaccines.
- The best computer model to understand these tweets achieved about 72.8% accuracy on one set, but it needed to be updated to better understand changes in language over time, improving accuracy when retrained with new data.
In the context of the European Joint Action on Vaccination, we analyzed, through quantitative and qualitative methods, a random sample of vaccine-related tweets published in Italy between November 2019 and June 2020, with the aim of understanding how the Twitter conversation on vaccines changed during the first phase of the pandemic, compared to the pre-pandemic months. Tweets were analyzed by a multidisciplinary team in terms of kind of vaccine, vaccine stance, tone of voice, population target, mentioned source of information. Multiple correspondence analysis was used to identify variables associated with vaccine stance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article analyzes the Twitter conversations carrying the hashtag #NiUnaMenos produced in Argentina during the time of the marches in 2015, 2016, and 2017, by adopting a quali-quantitative method. After describing the origins of NiUnaMenos, we illustrate the mobilizing force of femicide in a context of technopolitical use of social media by women's movements. Data analysis diachronically shows to what extent and in what terms conversations on NiUnaMenos refer to gender violence and femicide.
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