D1.4 LITERATURE REVIEW ON SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS RELATED TO TRUST IN SCIENCE

This document constitutes a part of the D1.4 Social Network Analysis and includes the literature review that was conducted to investigate the methodologies used for addressing the topic of trust in science in Online Social Networks (OSNs). This review contains studies that have approached the topic of trust in science from different perspectives in OSNs examining both data from OSNs and suveys related to OSNs providing useful insights about the factors that influence public trust in science. Important findings are derived from the literature review that affect public’s trust in science, such as the political ideology, educational level, and cultural factors. Also, different methods of the studies are described such as the analysis of the text of the messages, the reactions of users, and deep learning techniques. The findings of the literature review are provided to the final document of D1.4 as they address the further analysis of the Task 1.4 Social Network Analysis