TY - T1 - Social Media and Large Carnivores : Sharing Biased News on Attacks on Humans SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/318063 T3 - A1 - Nanni, Veronica; Caprio, Enrico; Bombieri, Giulia; Schiaparelli, Stefano; Chiorri, Carlo; Mammola, Stefano; Pedrini, Paolo; Penteriani, Vincenzo A2 - PB - Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - The Internet and social media have profoundly changed the way the public receives and transmits news. The ability of the web to quickly disperse information both geographically and temporally allows social media to reach a much wider audience compared to traditional mass media. A powerful role is played by sharing, as millions of people routinely share news on social media platforms, influencing each other by transmitting their mood and feelings to others through emotional contagion. Thus, socia... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology; emotional contagion; human-wildlife conflict; media reports; attacks on humans; Twitter; Facebook; sensationalism; NEGATIVITY; RISK N1 - PP - ER -