Anti-intellectualism on Social Media during COVID-19

11.07.2024 12:15 – 13:45

Prof. CHEN Yingying will present her research employing topic modeling and supervised machine learning to focus on anti-Fauci tweets, revealing themes of people-scientist antagonism and delegitimization of scientists' motivations and knowledge. The findings highlight significant implications for public trust in scientists and the challenges of effective science communication.