[De]Politicizing the Pandemic: Visually Communicating Digital Public Sociology.
In the context of the COVID-19 infodemic, we explore discourse around a highly polarized health issue: mask wearing during the pandemic. Probing ideologically charged discourse from #masks on Twitter, we examine the potential for visual tools to promote digital citizen social science. Our case study...
| Publicado en: | American Behavioral Scientist Vol. 69; no. 9; pp. 1177 - 1192 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2025
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