Mapping the changing Internet attention to the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 in China

Hong Zhang; Yanyu Chen; Peichao Gao; Zhiwei Wu

doi:10.1177/0308518X20922238

Mapping the changing Internet attention to the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 in China

Hong Zhang
, Yanyu Chen
, Peichao Gao^*
, Zhiwei Wu

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The incessant spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a great threat to human health. By 17 March 2020, the number of laboratory-confirmed cases had exceeded 179,000, with more than 7000 deaths across at least 150 countries. Due to the extremely contagious nature of COVID-19, the Chinese government has made broad and aggressive responses to restrict movement, transportation, and business for six to eleven weeks. Wuhan, a city in Hubei province from which COVID-19 emanated, has been quarantined since 12 January 2020, and many other cities have been placed under travel restrictions. Citizens have been strongly encouraged to stay home and limit face-to-face contact; as a result, people’s daily lives are dominated by the Internet as never before. Here, we visualize the spread of COVID-19 and people’s Internet attention in China in the form of cartograms using the diffusion-based method.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	691-694
Number of pages	4
Journal	Environment and Planning A
Volume	52
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X20922238
State	Published - 1 Jun 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

COVID-19
Density-equalizing map
Internet attention
spread

UN SDGs

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Mapping the changing Internet attention to the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 in China

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