Masks, Mandates, and Messaging: Tweeting in the Time of COVID

• In Event: Political Communication and COVID-19

Brief Overview

This paper examines public discussion of masking (to reduce COVID-19 transmission risk) on Twitter. A potent marker of political polarization, attitudes toward masks are linked on social media to other facets of political identity and ideology.

Authors

• Tavishi Bhasin, Kennesaw State University

• Elizabeth Ellen Gordon, Kennesaw State University

• Charity Butcher, Kennesaw State University

• Maia Hallward, Kennesaw State University