The Infodemic in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Infodemic Effects in the Virtual-Real Mass Communication
The Infodemic in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Infodemic Effects in the Virtual-Real Mass Communication
Author(s): Luca VincentiSubject(s): Media studies, Methodology and research technology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: POLIROM & Universitatea Bucureşti - Dept. de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială
Keywords: infodemic communication; coronavirus; Covid19; misinformation; infodemic virulence; quarantine effects; lockdown effects; over-information panic
Summary/Abstract: Covid 19 has changed people's lives also in terms of communication that has taken on paroxysmal communication day after day, generating a real infodemic. Using the new media, human beings have kept their identity and sociability "intact" but have had to give up on "physicality" and "frontality" by putting the machines between themselves and bringing communication to another level. The human being in the virtual reality of the new media has become actualized, that is, it has produced attractively real social dynamics allowing it to survive its ity in new forms.
Journal: Revista de Asistenţă Socială
- Issue Year: XX/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 193-208
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
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