Information Pollution as Social Harm: Investigating the Digital Drift of Medical Misinformation in a Time of Crisis

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By relying on a virtual ethnography approach carried out on Italian-speaking alternative lifestyle and counter-information online communities, this book shows how the nature of personal interactions online and the construction of both personal and group identities, are central to the creation and p...

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Cover of Information Pollution as Social Harm: Investigating the Digital Drift of Medical Misinformation in a Time of Crisis
DOI
10.1108/9781800715219
Publication date
2021-04-30
Book series
Emerald Studies In Digital Crime, Technology and Social Harms
Author
Series copyright holder
Emerald Publishing Limited
ISBN
978-1-80071-522-6
eISBN
978-1-80071-521-9