Description du projet
Une gestion interdisciplinaire des infodémies
La pandémie de COVID-19 a mis en évidence une large résistance aux mesures essentielles de santé publique, alimentée par des informations erronées provenant de diverses sources. Ce type d’infodémie, soutenue par des influenceurs, des politiciens et la diffusion de mensonges en ligne, constitue une menace grave pour la santé publique et entraîne une augmentation de la morbidité et de la mortalité. Avec le soutien du programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, le projet REMEDY vise à découvrir les mécanismes qui sous-tendent la diffusion de mésinformations et leur influence sur les comportements. Plus précisément, il s’appuiera sur une recherche interdisciplinaire innovante, combinant des connaissances en sciences sociales, des méthodes économiques et statistiques, et des techniques de science des données. Grâce à l’analyse des données et au suivi des sentiments sur les médias sociaux, REMEDY établira un lien entre les comportements de résistance et leurs conséquences dévastatrices sur la santé. Ce projet souligne la nécessité de lutter contre l’emprise de la mésinformation sur l’Internet.
Objectif
Aim: The REMEDY project will provide innovative interdisciplinary empirical research that explores the driver and health
consequences of resistant behaviour against epidemic measures, leveraging social science insights, economic and statistical methods
and data science techniques.
Background: In the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, one pressing challenge for the public health response is the general resistance
to legitimate public health policies driven by news media, influencers, extremist politicians, and rampant misinformation circulated
on the internet – a potential information disorder due to an “infodemic”. There is, however, little understanding of the mechanism
through which these potentially malicious messages propagate and how they, in turn, influence the behaviour of the population in
opposing vaccine, mask-wearing, mobility restrictions, social distancing, and consequently leading to higher levels of morbidity and
mortality.
Methods: This project employs different quantitative and research methodologies to estimate the effects of behavioural resistance on
the epidemic spread and excess mortality and whether online misinformation explains this resistance behaviour. First, we link real-world data on vaccine refusal, fines for non-compliance and the frequency and scale of anti-mask/vax/digital COVID-19 certificate
protests to the local epidemic spread, hospitalisation and excess mortality rate over time. Second, after identifying the different types
of online misinformation on COVID-19 and vaccines, we use geo-tagged digital records on search engines and social media to analyse
the association between online sentiments towards public health measures and real-world resistance behaviour at a specific geographic unit.
Impact: The project will not only provide hard evidence on the linkage between resistance behaviour and population health
outcomes, but will also present the gravity of precariously allowing misinformation to flourish on the internet.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata science
- social sciencessociologydemographymortality
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternet
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesRNA virusescoronaviruses
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacypharmaceutical drugsvaccines
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinateur
93322 Aubervilliers Cedex
France