Information Pollution As Social Harm: Investigating The Digital Drift Of Medical Misinformation In A Time Of Crisis

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 propagation of medical misinformation.

• | By (Author): Anita (University Of Southampton, Uk) Lavorgna
• | Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 112 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1800715226
• | ISBN-13: 9781800715226