The surveillance and forecast of newly confirmed cases are important to mobilize medical
resources and facilitate policymaking during a public health emergency. Digital surveillance …

Political efficacy is an important indicator of political democracy. As the Internet, especially
social media, has grown and evolved, it has greatly changed the Chinese public’s political …

This study employed digital footprints to explore why people engage in genetically modified
(GM) food rumormongering on Chinese social media, Sina Weibo at both the group level …

Background Online medical consultation is an important complementary approach to offline
health care services. It not only increases patients’ accessibility to medical care, but also …

Misinformation on social media is a nonnegligible phenomenon that causes successive
adverse impacts. Numerous scholarly efforts have been devoted to automatic misinformation …

The considerable amount of misinformation on social media regarding genetically modified (GM)
food will not only hinder public understanding but also mislead the public to make …

Information dissemination and the associated change of individual behavior can significantly
slow the spread of an epidemic. However, major social events which attract public attention …

Background To date, the relationship between diverse time use behaviors and depression
status among emerging adults have not been disentangled in the literature. Therefore, if and …

While generational differences in coping with the threat of the global COVID-19 crisis were
widely discussed in Western societies, a more careful look from the family level is needed in …

In attempting to understand the media influence on the intention of sustainable commuting,
this study integrated the media use and dependency theories and the norm activation model. …