Description
Product ID: | 9781800715226 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Emerald Studies In Digital Crime, Technology and Social Harms |
Title: | Information Pollution as Social Harm |
Subtitle: | Investigating the Digital Drift of Medical Misinformation in a Time of Crisis |
Authors: | Author: Anita Lavorgna |
Page Count: | 112 |
Subjects: | Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Crime and criminology, Causes and prevention of crime, Crime & criminology, Causes & prevention of crime |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Emerald Publishing Limited |
Publisher Name: | Emerald Publishing Limited |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-04-30 |