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Digital Information Flows and Politics in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Thu, September 15, 8:00 to 9:30am, TBASession Submission Type: Created Panel
Session Description
Digital (mis)information has played a fundamental role in shaping political attitudes and government responses toward the Covid-19 pandemic. The papers in this panel apply emergent theories and develop new conceptual frameworks to understand the implications of digital information flows about the pandemic for democratic politics through case studies on Brazil, China, Italy, and the U.S.
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Affective Polarization and the Hybrid Media System during the Pandemic in Italy - Augusto Valeriani, Università di Bologna; Mario Quaranta, University of Trento; Danilo Serani, Università di Bologna
Alienating the Polarized: The Predictors of ‘Infodemic Vulnerability’ in Brazil - Antonis Kalogeropoulos, University of Liverpool; Patricia Rossini, University of Glasgow
Twitter Bots and the Polarization of COVID-19 Vaccine - Rui Wang, University at Buffalo; Yotam Ophir, University at Buffalo; Dror Walter, Georgia State University
Digital (Mis)Information: Lessons from Twitter and Sina Weibo in the Pandemic - Julie George, Cornell University; Sarah E. Kreps