Covid-19 Vaccine Discussion on Cyber, Relational and Physical Spaces
During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown and social distancing policies have greatly limited human activities in the physical space, and people relied on social media to stay connected while being physically apart. With Andrew Crooks and Li Yin , we studied how social media affects information propagation from physical to relational and cyber spaces. Abstract: With the advent of social media, human dynamics studied in purely physical space have been extended to that of a cyber and relational context. However, connections and interactions between these hybrid spaces have not been sufficiently investigated. The “ space-place (Splatial) ” framework proposed in recent years allows capturing human activities in the hybrid of spaces. This study applies the Splatial framework to examine the information propagation between cyber, relational, and physical spaces through a case study of Covid-19 vaccine debates in New York State (NYS). Whereby...