What is it about?
During a high number of cases of Covid-19, a covidiot, science denial (SD), and herd stupidity are emerging. People or groups of people belonging to those three groups must be handled carefully to prevent hatred, social discrimination, and criminal acts. The term covidiot is given to the people who have risky behavior against the spread of the disease.
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Why is it important?
The research aims to identify new community clusters that indicate a group of SD or herd stupidity to Covid-19. This research is an initial study applying sentiment analysis on Indonesian-language tweeters to determine the possibility of groups classified as SD. Practically, this research contributes to developing a platform to quickly and safely identify the existence of SD groups in communities.
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The term "herd stupidity" has been used as an innuendo for our country's stuttering in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. We assessed indications of "science denial" text analysis on social media (Twitter) and developed a science denial indication dataset by utilizing the social network analysis (SNA) tool. SNA uses geolocation data and the active cases data from the National Task Force to predict areas that could become new clusters of Covid 19 spread.
Budi Nugroho
National Research and Innovation Agency
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This page is a summary of: Predicting New Covid-19 Outbreak Clusters among the “Science Denial” Communities, October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3489088.3489117.
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