BPCPPDYSOE21 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme
SOE 1: COVID-19 pandemics through the lens of physics (org.: Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad and Philipp Hövel)
SOE 1.4: Vortrag
Montag, 22. März 2021, 10:20–10:40, SOEa
Analyzing protests against COVID-19 mitigation strategies on the German internet — •Andrzej Jarynowski1, Alexander Semenov2, and Vitaly Belik3 — 1Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Wroclaw, Poland — 2Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA — 3System Modeling Group, Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
In this study we quantitatively assess perception of protests agains COVID-19 mitigation strategies in Germany from the late July till the end of August 2020 in the Internet media. To this end we investigate Google searches, Twitter and Telegram posts, as well as selection of news articles collected via EventRegistry. We focus on demonstrations on August 1st and August 29th, 2020 in Berlin [1]. Although the dominant actors of the protest are on the far-right political spectrum, based on network analysis, we demonstrate that left-wing activists could both sympathize with and oppose the protest. We observe a constant interest in the protest movements in traditional media, in contrast, their popularity on social media was growing. The revealed insights shed light on social dynamics in the context of such major disruptive events as COVID-19 pandemic and could serve as a basis for optimization of risk awareness campaigns by the government.
[1] Jarynowski A., Semenov A., Belik V. (2020) In: Chellappan S., Choo KK.R., Phan N. (eds) Computational Data and Social Networks. CSoNet 2020. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12575, 524 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66046-8_43