Anita Lavorgna (UK University of Southampton)

Gebundenes Buch

Information Pollution as Social Harm

Beschreibung

By relying on a virtual ethnography approach carried out on Italian-speaking alternative lifestyle and counter-information online communities, this book shows how the nature of personal interactions online and the construction of both personal and group identities, are central to the creation and propagation of medical misinformation.

Autor

Anita Lavorgna is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton, UK. Dr Lavorgna has an international research track record on, and expertise in, interdisciplinary research drawing together criminology, socio-legal studies, and web science. Amongst her publications are the textbook Cybercrimes: Critical Issues in a Global Context and the edited book Medical Misinformation and Social Harm in Non-Science Based Health Practices: A Multidisciplinary Perspective.

Produktdetails

• Emerald Studies In Digital Crime, Technology and Social Harms
• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9781800715226
• ISBN-10: 1800715226
• Artikelnr.: 61268725