ArticleNature communications2022
Disparate impacts on online information access during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Down the Digital Delta: Health Information Inequities Among Rural Mississippi Caregivers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Intersecting Inequities in COVID-19 Vaccination: A Discourse Analysis of Information Use and Decision-Making Among Ethnically Diverse Parents in Canada.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Social inequality and cultural factors impact the awareness and reaction during the cryptic transmission period of pandemic.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Measuring vaccination coverage and concerns of vaccine holdouts from web search logs.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Online health information seeking behavior, healthcare access, and health status during exceptional times.Journal of economic behavior & organization · 2024Article
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- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on daily rhythms.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023Article
- An investigation of mHealth and digital health literacy among new parents during COVID-19.Frontiers in digital health · 2023Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated important changes in online information access as digital engagement became necessary to meet the demand for health, economic, and educational resources. Our analysis of 55 billion everyday web search interactions during the pandemic across 25,150 US ZIP codes reveals that the extent to which different communities of internet users enlist digital resources varies based on socioeconomic and environmental factors. For example, we find that ZIP codes with lower income intensified their access to health information to a smaller extent than ZIP codes with higher income. We show that ZIP codes with higher proportions of Black or Hispanic residents intensified their access to unemployment resources to a greater extent, while revealing patterns of unemployment site visits unseen by the claims data. Such differences frame important questions on the relationship between differential information search behaviors and the downstream real-world implications on more and less advantaged populations.
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