Talk:Infoveillance
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COI edit request: social-media infoveillance coverage stops at 2010 and two influenza studies
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I have a conflict of interest here and am requesting rather than making this edit.
The issue: In the lead section, following the sentence about Google Flu Trends, the article says "Other researchers have utilized social media sites such as Twitter to observe disease outbreak patterns." Both references attached to that sentence are from 2010 (Lampos & Cristianini, "Tracking the flu pandemic by monitoring the social web"; Corley et al., "Using Web and Social Media for Influenza Surveillance"), and both are about influenza. The article's coverage of social-media-based infoveillance stops at 2010, so a reader is not told that the method was later applied to another outbreak. There is no maintenance template on this sentence; the defect is in the content itself. One sentence with a peer-reviewed source closes the gap.
Proposed change: Add one sentence immediately after the sentence ending "...to observe disease outbreak patterns." and its two existing references, before the sentence beginning "Infoveillance can detect disease outbreaks faster...":
The same approach was applied during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], for which a public data set of pandemic-related Twitter discourse was collected from January 2020 and released for infoveillance research.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Emily |last2=Lerman |first2=Kristina |last3=Ferrara |first3=Emilio |year=2020 |title=Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set |journal=JMIR Public Health and Surveillance |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=e19273 |doi=10.2196/19273}}</ref>
Source: Chen, Emily; Lerman, Kristina; Ferrara, Emilio (2020). "Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set". JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 6(2): e19273. doi:10.2196/19273 {{doi}}: unflagged free DOI (link)
Disclosure: This citation is to work I co-authored (Emily Chen, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara). See User:Emilio Ferrara.
Happy for this to be declined or reworded; I will not make the edit myself. Emilio Ferrara (talk) 04:51, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
Done I opted to put this sentence in the "Examples" section rather than the lead, but I copied the source provided into the lead as well. Mit khavershaft, Royz-vi Tsibele🧅 16:39, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
