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

• 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.
• Subjects: Medical misconceptions.; Fake news.; COVID-19 (Disease) > Social aspects.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781800715233
• DOI: 10.1108/9781800715219
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (100 pages).

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...

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.