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JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2502) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1806) Mass Media/Social Media Communication and Campaigns (518) Outbreak and Pandemic Preparedness and Management (1785) Theme Issue: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Rapid Reports (1532)

Published on in Vol 23, No 2 (2021): February

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/21463, first published .
Factors Driving Citizen Engagement With Government TikTok Accounts During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Model Development and Analysis

Factors Driving Citizen Engagement With Government TikTok Accounts During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Model Development and Analysis

Factors Driving Citizen Engagement With Government TikTok Accounts During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Model Development and Analysis

Authors of this article:

Qiang Chen1 Author Orcid Image ;   Chen Min2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Wei Zhang4 Author Orcid Image ;   Xiaoyue Ma1 Author Orcid Image ;   Richard Evans5 Author Orcid Image
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