HOPE - How Democracies Cope with Covid19: A Data-Driven Approach
The UCPH team of the HOPE project focuses on the impact of misinformation seen via social media on behavior during the coronavirus pandemic both online and offline. Currently, our research analyses the conversation about misinformation in Denmark. For more on the HOPE project see https://hope-project.dk/
How do democracies react and cope as the COVID-19 crisis unfolds and with what effects? This is the core question we ask in the HOPE project - “How Democracies Cope with COVID-19: A Data-Driven Approach”. The HOPE project constitutes an unprecedented research project which examines the interrelationship between:
- the COVID-19 trajectory
- the decisions of governments and international organizations
- changing media landscapes
- citizens’ behavior and well-being
To this end, we utilize the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic is unfolding in the middle of the “big data” revolution. For the first time in human history, we are able to measure with extreme precision and time-resolution how governments and citizens react (and with what consequences) during an extremely severe crisis.
The HOPE project involves two phases. The first phase occurs during the unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses all resources on data-harvesting and rapid analyses. Analyses are publicly available on the HOPE project’s webpage and are disseminated to key national authorities, the media and the general public to enhance their ability to contain and reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic. In Denmark, the HOPE project shares public opinion data and advice with the Danish parliament and government. The HOPE project is also advising and sharing self-reported and observed data on behavior with the national health authorities. Achieving the highest level of social scientific responsibility is crucial in this phase.
The second phase occurs after the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on understanding and evaluating how the different strategies and events shaped the trajectory of the pandemic across different countries.
For more information go to the HOPE-project website.
With a unique access to all Facebook content from The Danish Health Authority, this project aims to analyze, in the particular case of facemasks, how citizens react and interact with communication and information during the COVID-19.
This project aims to examine the conversation about misinformation on Twitter during COVID-19. We are examining how much of the conversation spreads and combats misinformation.
We propose a new and nuanced method for identifying misinformation. We argue previous methods, which focus on unreliable sources, overestimate the amount of misinformation seen publically online.
With complex contagion models, we compare the diffusion of information and misinformation. We analyse the influence of intermediary sharers in the growth of misinformation cascades.
Using unique access to deleted danish tweets during the corona crises, this research project seeks to uncover the black box of deleted posts - what is deleted and why?
Researchers
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search in Name | Search in Title | Search in Phone | |
| Cathrine Valentin Kjær | Student FU | +4535324867 | |
| Naja Algreen Suhr | Student FU | ||
| Rebecca Adler-Nissen | Professor | +4530224075 |
Funded by:
HOPE has received a three year funding from the Carlsberg Foundation
Project: How Democracies Cope with COVID19 - A Data-Driven Approach
Project period: 2020-2023
Contact
PI: Michael Bang Petersen
(Aarhus BSS)
Co-PI: Andreas Roepstorff
(Aarhus BSS)
Co-PI: Rebecca Adler-Nissen
(SODAS)
Co-PI: Sune Lehmann
(SODAS/DTU)
The HOPE project is a collaboration between Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)