Information pollution as social harm : investigating the digital drift of medical misinformation in a time of crisis /

The coronavirus pandemic struck the world in a very distinctive way: experience from past pandemics or from more recent outbreaks could give us only a limited understanding of how the situation was likely to unfold. In this context, and with cyberspace being increasingly used to support health- rela...

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Main Author: Lavorgna, Anita (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Series:Emerald studies in digital crime, technology and social harms.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1108/9781800715219
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Social harms in pandemic timesChapter 2. Methodological and theoretical approaches Chapter 3. Web of ties: the actors behind medical misinformation Chapter 4. Building identities and networks through converging frames Chapter 5. Drifting off the polluted pathway.