From Zero to a National Data Set in 2 Weeks: Reflections on a COVID-19 Collaborative Survey Project [0.03%]
从零到全国数据集：关于一个新冠协作调查项目的反思
Eszter Hargittai,Minh Hao Nguyen,Jaelle Fuchs et al.
Eszter Hargittai et al.
In March 2020, like much of the rest of the world, we went into lockdown. A week into our new reality, we decided to do a survey study about how people were experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic. In this piece, we describe what motivated us to...
Fighting the 'Infodemic': Legal Responses to COVID-19 Disinformation [0.03%]
“抗疫即遏疫：新冠肺炎疫情虚假信息的法律应对》
Roxana Radu
Roxana Radu
Online disinformation has been on the rise in recent years. A digital outbreak of disinformation has spread around the COVID-19 pandemic, often referred to as an "infodemic." Since January 2020, digital media have been both the culprits of ...
Ysabel Gerrard
Ysabel Gerrard
At the time of writing (mid-May 2020), mental health charities around the world have experienced an unprecedented surge in demand. At the same time, record-high numbers of people are turning to social media to maintain personal connections ...
A Second-Order Disaster? Digital Technologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic [0.03%]
二次灾难？新冠肺炎疫情下的数字技术
Mirca Madianou
Mirca Madianou
One of the most striking features of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom has been the disproportionate way in which it has affected Black, Asian, ethnic minority, and working class people. In this article, I argue that digital techn...
"Coronavirus EXPLAINED": YouTube, COVID-19, and the Socio-Technical Mediation of Expertise [0.03%]
“冠状病毒解惑”——新冠肺炎疫情下的YouTube与专家知识的中介变迁
Nahema Marchal,Hubert Au
Nahema Marchal
Since the coronavirus outbreak, YouTube has altered its content moderation policies to surface more "authoritative information" while removing videos that contain "medically unsubstantiated claims." This was made urgent by incidents like a ...
Adrienne Russell,Matt Powers
Adrienne Russell
All of the authors who have contributed to this issue on COVID19 and the Media have stepped out of the rush of change, if only for a 2000-word moment, to look into a corner of the mediated pandemic and grapple with the significance of what'...
J J Sylvia th
J J Sylvia th
As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, new technologies are being leveraged to enforce social distancing requirements. I explore social distancing through the theoretical lens of Michel Foucault's biopolitics, with an emphasis on recognizing...
COVID-19 and Health Code: How Digital Platforms Tackle the Pandemic in China [0.03%]
新冠肺炎与健康码——中国数字平台的抗疫之道
Fan Liang
Fan Liang
As COVID-19 is rapidly spreading around the world, some countries have launched or plan to implement contact-tracing apps to detect exposure risks. In China, the government relies on Health Code, developed by Alipay and WeChat, for identify...
Twitter and Non-Elites: Interpreting Power Dynamics in the Life Story of the (#)BRCA Twitter Stream [0.03%]
twitter与非精英：通过生命故事解读BRCA推特流中的权力动态
Stefania Vicari
Stefania Vicari
In May 2013 and March 2015, actress Angelina Jolie wrote in the New York Times about her choice to undergo preventive surgery. In her two op-eds, she explained that - as a carrier of the BRCA1 gene mutation - preventive surgery was the best...