...Jingqiong Sun; Junren Ming; Xuezhi Wang; Yawen Zhang Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of the COVID-19 infodemic on the public’s online information behaviour, offering insights critical for shaping effective informational responses in future public health emergencies. Design...

... crisis communication skills to engage citizens in taking appropriate action effectively. This study aims to examine how the National Health Commission of China (NHCC) has used TikTok, the leading short video–based platform, to facilitate public engagement during COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach...

... to promote OGD on public health emergencies. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the factors that influence OGD on public health emergencies. Design/methodology/approach The technology–organization–environment framework is applied to explore factors that influence OGD during COVID-19. It is argued...

...Akhmad Habibi; Mohd Faiz Mohd Yaakob; Muhammad Sofwan Purpose This paper aims to examine the determinants that drive digital library use by university students in Indonesia and Malaysia during COVID-19. A proposed model based on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model-2...

...Tingting Li; Ziming Zeng; Jingjing Sun; Shouqiang Sun Purpose The deployment of vaccines is the primary task in curbing the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this paper is to understand the public’s opinions on vaccines and then design effective interventions to promote vaccination coverage...

... by COVID-19 epidemic. Also, sentimental analysis is performed to uncover the posters’ emotion towards the target policy. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) as classifier in classification tasks, including misinformation detection...

...Youngok Choi; Sung Un Kim Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the Twitter use of public libraries during the early period of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic to evaluate the focus of Twitter communication. Design/methodology/approach A total of 57 active, public library...

... and compare the selection of more than 120 open health data portals supported by organizations in more than 100 countries or regions that are in the World's top confirmed cases of COVID-19 as released by the World Health Organization. Findings At present, open health data portals have shortcomings...