The Privacy Concern and Cyber Violence on Epidemiological Investigation of Confirmed Cases
A Social Media Based Study During the COVID -19 Pandemic in China
These authors contributed equally.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.310How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic; privacy; cyber violence
- Abstract
In China, the government is using social media to control COVID-19 by posting definite privacy cases, including their journeys of the past days or weeks. The exposing of privacy of these confirmed cases usually leads to cyberbullying on the internet. Both the exposure of privacy and cyberbullying can cause negative influences on the individual. This study reports the stigmatization of people due to cyber violence, which resulted from the disclosure of private information during the pandemic. In particular, it is focused on comments regarding information on social internet platforms, and it will utilize the analysis of comments to investigate the stigmatization of people whose privacy has been compromised due to the pandemic. Aside from that, several important instances in China throughout the pandemic to uncover the connections between privacy concerns, online aggression, and societal stigma are also depicted. As a result of the research, it is concluded that online violence caused by the disclosure of personal information during an epidemic can result in some stigmatization of individuals. The outbreak of an epidemic has a significant impact on this process by comparing the disclosure of personal information before and after the epidemic. As a result of social stigma in a real-time setting, this research explores the real-time transformation of social stigma in a particular case. It also offers further suggestions for regulations on the disclosure of personal information to reduce the development of cyber violence in the pandemic.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Jie Peng AU - Jingxi Tan AU - Jing Zhang AU - Sihan Zhao PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - The Privacy Concern and Cyber Violence on Epidemiological Investigation of Confirmed Cases BT - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1831 EP - 1836 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.310 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.310 ID - Peng2021 ER -