A Peripheral Movement?: Querdenken in the Critical Public Discourse about the COVID-19 Pandemic.
This study analyzes the interplay between the public image and the self-image of the German Querdenken movement during the covid-19 pandemic. First, we reconstruct the public image of Querdenken with data from the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Our findings reveal a multifaceted network of critical...
| Publicado en: | German Politics & Society Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 16 - 35 |
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