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Infodemic insights: Mapping COVID-19’s digital discourse in Romania Cover

Infodemic insights: Mapping COVID-19’s digital discourse in Romania

Open Access
|Mar 2025

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Pages grouped by their level of activity in the top 30 categories.
Pages grouped by their level of activity in the top 30 categories.

Figure 2

The number of views received by posts from different categories of Facebook pages related to COVID-19 in Romania.
The number of views received by posts from different categories of Facebook pages related to COVID-19 in Romania.

Figure 3

Public’s reaction to Facebook posts over time.
Public’s reaction to Facebook posts over time.

Figure 4

WorldCloud of top 100 most used words extracted from Facebook posts.
WorldCloud of top 100 most used words extracted from Facebook posts.

Figure 5

COVID-19 cases vs (a) Polarity and (b) Sentiment extracted from Facebook posts.
COVID-19 cases vs (a) Polarity and (b) Sentiment extracted from Facebook posts.

Figure 6

Social Network graph.
Social Network graph.

Figure 7

Degree of centrality, top 30 nodes in the network.
Degree of centrality, top 30 nodes in the network.

Figure 8

Betweenness centrality, top 30 nodes.
Betweenness centrality, top 30 nodes.

Figure 9

Closeness centrality, top 30 nodes.
Closeness centrality, top 30 nodes.

Figure 10

Top 30 eigenvector centrality scores.
Top 30 eigenvector centrality scores.

Topics identified through LDA_

TopicWords and probabilities
Number of cases0.056*“covid” + 0.040*“cases” + 0.030*“people” + 0.025*“hours” + 0.025*“recent” + 0.014*“deaths” + 0.013*“patients” + 0.011*“coronavirus” + 0.010*“number” + 0.010*“county”
Financial aspects0.027*“lei” + 0.026*“days” + 0.013*“person” + 0.012*“covid” + 0.010*“room” + 0.009*“euro” + 0.008*“rate” + 0.007*“hotel” + 0.007*“test” + 0.006*“period”
Health measures0.021*“covid” + 0.005*“Romania” + 0.004*“anticovid” + 0.004*“years” + 0.004*“against” + 0.003*“now” + 0.003*“vaccine” + 0.003*“done” + 0.003*“must” + 0.003*“health”

Main variables extracted from Facebook posts using the CrowdTangle platform, covering the period from March 2020 to June 2022, with posts selected by choosing “Covid” as a keyword_

Variable nameExplanation
Post Created DateDate the post was created (used as an index for the database)
Page NameName of the page that posted
Page CategoryPage category by industry
Page DescriptionShort description of the page
TypePost type (video, status, Photo, Link)
Total IteractionsTotal number of interactions
LikesNumber of likes of the post
CommentsPost comment count
SharesNumber of shares of the post
Post ViewsNumber of views
URLThe link present in the post
MessagePost text
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mmcks-2025-0003 | Journal eISSN: 2069-8887 | Journal ISSN: 1842-0206
Language: English
Page range: 15 - 34
Submitted on: Dec 12, 2024
Accepted on: Mar 17, 2025
Published on: Mar 30, 2025
Published by: Society for Business Excellence
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2025 Andrei Răzvan Sǎvescu, Miruna Mazurencu-Marinescu-Pele, Alexandra-Ioana Conda, Vlad Bolovǎneanu, Daniel Traian Pele, published by Society for Business Excellence
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