Study On The Spread Of Epidemic-situation Internet Rumors

Like viruses,we know nothing about when they will appear or die out.With the development of media,rumors are constantly changing their parasitic forms.During the COVID-19 pandemic,social media not only spread the latest epidemic information in time but also become the main platform for spreading rumors.This thesis attempts to answer what are the characteristics of online rumors during the COVID-19 pandemic’s period.What are the motives of rumors?What factors will affect the spread of rumors?Therefore,based on the current epidemic development trend,this thesis sorts out the rumored content,further predicts the prediction of transmission factors and gives corresponding suggestions.The full text is divided into five chapters.The introduction expounds the research background and significance,methods,ideas,and innovations,combs the research status at home and abroad,and reviews them.Chapter one case analysis through Python tools,this thesis mines the content published by Sina Weibo account Weibo to refute rumors.And through NVIVO coding,six related topics are sorted out:false epidemic information,fictitious epidemic impact,fabricated prevention and control measures,virus misunderstanding,rumors of special people,and resumption of school.This thesis further analyzes the release time,area,and channel of epidemic online rumors.Chapter two the research on the spread content of epidemic network rumors.Combined with the keywords in the first chapter,the thesis further discusses the content characteristics of online rumors in the COVID-19 pandemic period.The research shows that the content of epidemic online rumors tends to use three thematic features,such as exaggerated words,and five "source" features,such as forging professionals and blurring key data.The characteristics of the Internet have an impact on the fission speed,diffusion range,credibility,distortion rate,and rumor control of epidemic rumors.Chapter three research on the motivation of spreading epidemic online rumors.The motives of rumor mongers can be divided into three categories: kindness,hearsay,and eye-catching.The psychology of rumor believers is divided into five categories according to the concern psychology based on importance and panic psychology based on environmental uncertainty,which also paves the way for the later verification of rumor spreading factors.In chapter four,based on the improved rumor formula,five factors of epidemic rumor spread are extracted by principal factor analysis,and the relationship between them is further found by linear regression,and data are collected by questionnaire survey.Finally,five main factors are extracted: the importance,the control,the irritation,the sense of involvement,and the uncertainty of the epidemic situation.The fifth chapter summarizes the research contents and puts forward relevant suggestions from six levels: government,society,public and technology,and so on.