<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">****************************************************************************************************************<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br><b>International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health -- Open Access Journal<br><br> SPECIAL ISSUE: "Health Misinformation on Social Media"</b><br><br><div>****************************************************************************************************************<br><br><b>SPECIAL ISSUE INFORMATION:</b><br><br>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>We are organizing a Special Issue entitled: “Health Misinformation on Social Media” in <br>the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a <br>peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the <br>interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed <br>information on the journal, please refer to <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph" target="_blank">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph</a>.<br><br>Today, the success of the Social Web and the massive use of social media is making an <br>increasingly large number of people rely on information diffused on these applications. <br>In fact, in recent years, we have witnessed the explosion of so-called User-Generated <br>Content (UGC), i.e., content diffused by users on social media without almost any <br>traditional form of control of its quality or veracity by reputable third parties. <br>This can represent a problem especially in the health scenario, in which a large <br>portion of people seeks health-related information. This is particularly true in the current</div><div>situation, characterized by the spread of unverified and low-credibility content about</div><div>the <b>COVID-19 </b>pandemic.<br><br>Prior research indicates that medical professionals do not author an extensive amount <br>of health-related information available on social media. This creates the conditions for <br>spreading false, inaccurate or misleading health-related information, thereby <br>potentially leading ill people away from proper care.<br><br>Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to address and investigate this problem by <br>assessing perceptions of credibility about health-related information found on social <br>media, under different perspectives. For example, by analyzing the Social Web for <br>identifying suitable sources of health-related information (blogs, microblogs, <br>question-answering systems, etc.); evaluating the impact of health misinformation; <br>studying and implementing models for the credibility assessment of the acquired <br>health-related information from social media; and studying and implementing models <br>for the prevention of health misinformation diffusion in social media.<br><br>This Special Issue is aimed at scholars and researchers involved in different research <br>areas, from medical informatics to sociology to medicine, confirming the <br>interdisciplinary character of the journal.<br><br><b>WEB PAGE:</b> <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/Health_Misinformation">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/Health_Misinformation</a><br><br>
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<br><b><br></b><div><b>KEYWORDS</b><br><br>- Social Web and health information diffusion<br>- Models and technologies for health information credibility assessment<br>- Models and technologies to prevent health misinformation diffusion<br>- Impact of health misinformation in social media<br>- Crowdsourcing and health information/misinformation assessment<br>- Knowledge-bases applied to health information credibility<br>- Health and media literacy<br>- Health information retrieval<br>- Recommending genuine health information<br>- Decision-making in dealing with health information/misinformation<br>- Filter bubbles and echo chambers in the diffusion of health misinformation<br><br>
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<br><br><b>IMPORTANT DATES:<br></b><br>Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2020.<br><br>
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<br><br></div><div><b>GUEST EDITOR:<br></b><br>Dr. Marco Viviani (Assistant Professor)<br>University of Milano-Bicocca<br>Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo)<br><br>Interests: social media analytics; information retrieval; trust and reputation systems; <br>information credibility assessment; social computing; multicriteria decision making; <br>aggregation operators.<br><br><a href="http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/" target="_blank">http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/</a><br><br>**************************************************************************************************************** <br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>VISIBILITY:</b><br><br>The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is indexed by the <br>Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Social Sciences Citation Index <br>(Web of Science), MEDLINE (PubMed), Scopus (Elsevier) and other databases.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>Marco Viviani</b> (Assistant Professor)<div>University of Milano-Bicocca</div><div>Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo)</div><div>Viale Sarca, 336 - 20126 Milan (Italy)</div><div>e-mail: <a href="mailto:marco.viviani@unimib.it" target="_blank">marco.viviani@unimib.it</a></div><div>url: <a href="http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/" target="_blank">http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div></div></div>