Index

Anita Lavorgna (University of Southampton, UK)

Information Pollution as Social Harm: Investigating the Digital Drift of Medical Misinformation in a Time of Crisis

ISBN: 978-1-80071-522-6, eISBN: 978-1-80071-521-9

Publication date: 30 April 2021

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Lavorgna, A. (2021), "Index", Information Pollution as Social Harm: Investigating the Digital Drift of Medical Misinformation in a Time of Crisis (Emerald Studies In Digital Crime, Technology and Social Harms), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 89-93. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-521-920211006

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INDEX

Academia
, 4

Academic
, 11, 34, 40

imaginaries
, 45

jurisdiction
, 57

Activist
, 4, 57

Actor
, 27, 51, 63

Agency
, 12, 25, 39, 44, 53–55, 60

Alternative
, 4–6, 8, 18, 29–31, 35, 38, 40, 46, 61, 65

Anonymity
, 19

Anthropology
, 17

Antivax
, 6, 51

beliefs
, 54

clusters
, 6

communicative strategies in
, 65

Architectural change
, 63

Argumentation
, 41

Attachment
, 28

Autism
, 6

Automatic
, 7, 31

Belief
, 7, 22, 29, 34

antivax
, 54

conspiracy
, 39–40, 41, 43, 55, 60, 65

health-related beliefs
, 60

neutralizing
, 24

perseverance
, 41

philosophical
, 19

spiritual
, 55

Belonging
, 17, 28, 34, 43

of CAMs
, 62

outgroup hostility and ingroup
, 46, 49

Big data
, 7, 15, 50

digital positivism on
, 15

Body
, 4, 46, 53, 55, 57

Bulimic society
, 26, 58

Business as usual
, 13, 33

CAM
, 4

community
, 37

intervention and monitoring
, 63

researchers
, 62

Catalysis event
, 28, 32–33

Celebrity
, 34, 63

Children
, 30, 36, 53, 54

China
, 1, 51

Choice
, 24, 30, 50, 53, 61

Collective
, 5, 11, 25, 52

moral agents
, 61

moral responsibility
, 60–61

Community
, 28, 30, 33, 37, 41, 46, 49, 54, 60

Conspiracy
, 6, 31, 51, 66

beliefs
, 39, 42

conspiracy-led narratives
, 38

Conspiratorial thinking
, 38–39, 41

Contagion
, 1, 3, 48

Context
, 5

of COVID-19
, 21

of crime and deviancy
, 13

of crossdisciplinarity
, 57–59

cultural and discursive
, 7

culture
, 25

exploratory psycho-criminological analysis
, 18

of health-related information
, 9–10

information
, 41

of interdisciplinary analyses
, 17

medical
, 63

medical misinformation
, 15

of medical misinformation
, 61

of pandemic
, 14, 32, 53

of public health
, 60

of social networks
, 44

of systemically underfunded education sector
, 32

of technology-facilitated social harms
, 2, 44, 55, 57, 63

of vaccination
, 66

Control
, 10, 67

compensatory sense of
, 39

crime
, 25

of information
, 26

institutional
, 54

sense of
, 53

social
, 51

social
, 54, 65

Convergent technologies
, 25, 32, 44, 60

Conversation
, 3, 7, 18, 20–21, 28, 49, 60, 63

Coronavirus
, 1, 11, 30, 36, 48, 57

Counter-culture
, 39

Counterinformation
, 3, 14, 50–51

COVID-19
, 1, 12–13, 17–18, 21, 31, 38, 48, 54, 63

Covidiot
, 47–48

Crime
, 2, 9, 54

crime control industry
, 10

during pandemic
, 13

prevention and reduction
, 25

Criminology
, 4, 9, 15, 22, 25

Crisis
, 2, 12, 50, 53, 58

Critical care
, 1

Crossdisciplinarity
, 57

Culpability
, 10

Cultural
, 4, 5

cognition affects
, 66

contexts
, 7

criminology
, 22, 25–26

spaces
, 25

values
, 66

Culture
, 10, 25, 38–39, 47, 50

Cybersanctioning
, 65

Cyberspace
, 4, 9, 10, 14, 24, 53, 59, 64

Data science
, 4, 6

Dataveillance
, 38

Death
, 1, 54, 65

Debunker
, 4, 33, 64

Debunking
, 8, 65, 67

Decree
, 1

Defensiveness
, 47

Denial
, 17, 45, 52, 66

Deprivation
, 39, 51, 58

Determinism
, 24, 58

Deviance
, 2, 9–10, 16, 22–23, 25

Deviant
, 2, 16, 22–23, 25

Digital
, 9, 15, 18, 20, 28, 44, 50, 59

Disease
, 6, 31, 53, 57

Displacement
, 67

Displacing
, 14, 33, 54

Distancing
, 14, 33–34, 54

Doctor
, 29, 32–34, 37, 44, 62, 64

Doubt
, 5, 8, 30, 44

Drift
, 23, 32, 50, 58, 60

Dual city
, 16

Duration
, 49, 60

Echo chamber
, 7, 50

Education
, 29, 32, 37, 53

Effective
, 4, 9, 13, 25, 62, 66, 67

Elite
, 38, 40, 45–46

Emergency
, 33, 38, 56

Emotion
, 66

Empowerment
, 5, 53, 55

Epistemic mistrust
, 38, 40

Epistemology
, 15, 40

Establishment
, 5, 33, 31, 34, 37

Ethic
, 19, 21, 26, 37, 44

Ethnography
, 18, 22, 30, 36, 51, 55, 57

Europe
, 1

European
, 2, 42, 46, 51–52

Event
, 9–10, 32–33, 37, 54

Exceptionalism
, 13

Existentialism
, 19

Expert
, 6, 33, 40, 43–44, 54, 59, 66

Expertise
, 5, 44, 59, 64

Exposure
, 21–23, 56, 58, 60

Facebook
, 18, 29, 30–31

Fact-checking
, 65

Fake
, 3–4, 35, 44–45

Fear
, 2, 8, 49, 56, 64–65

Feminism
, 53

Filter bubble
, 50

Filtering
, 6–7

Forum
, 19

Frame
, 27, 43–44, 60

Framing
, 1, 21

Fraud
, 4–6, 8, 10, 12, 45

Freedom
, 23, 29, 52, 56, 58

Frequency
, 34, 49, 60

Fringe
, 29, 39, 46, 65

Galileo
, 46

Gender
, 53

Government
, 31, 38, 46, 54

Harassment
, 21

Harm
, 1, 5, 9, 22, 2

Harmful
, 8, 11, 25, 58, 62

Health
, 1, 4, 13, 17, 28, 31, 37, 41, 47, 53, 56–57, 62, 66

health-related beliefs
, 60

individual moral responsibility in
, 61

Healthcare
, 1, 4, 5, 12–13

Help
, 13–14, 16, 30, 36, 40, 58

Heretics
, 46

Hope
, 4, 29, 36, 38, 64

Hospital
, 12, 30, 47

Hospitalization
, 1, 49

Hostility
, 46

Hygiene theatre
, 32

Identity
, 22, 25, 27, 34, 42–43, 46, 49, 51, 58

Ideology
, 52, 66

Illness
, 5, 55

Image
, 19–20, 43, 48, 55, 64

Immigration
, 51

Immuni
, 56

Impact
, 1–2, 4, 8, 10, 13, 19, 41, 66

Impression
, 6, 27

Incentive
, 4, 65

Individual
, 2, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15, 20, 24, 33, 39, 46, 50, 53, 55, 66

Infodemic
, 3

Information pollution
, 2–3, 9, 12–13, 16, 59

Ingroup
, 25, 39, 48, 49

Injustice
, 23, 26, 39–40

Intensity
, 49, 60

Intensive care
, 1, 3, 47

Interviews
, 17, 21, 42, 56

Intragroup
, 41, 43

Involvement
, 23, 28–29, 34

Irrational
, 66

Italy
, 1–2, 51–52, 54, 62, 64

Knowledge
, 2–5, 11, 21, 40–42, 45, 59, 65

Late modernity
, 5, 26, 64

Legal
, 9, 11, 25, 54

Legitimacy
, 5, 10, 23, 33, 35, 62

LGBTQ
, 53

Libertarian
, 52–53, 60

Liberty
, 39, 66

Lifestyle
, 3, 14, 18, 31, 53

Lockdown
, 2, 13, 17, 47, 52, 54

Lombardia
, 13, 17, 32, 49, 52, 54

Mala in se, 2

Mask
, 8, 13, 33, 42, 51, 24

Media
, 39, 41–42, 51, 55, 56, 59, 61–64

Medicine
, 4, 12, 35, 61

Meme
, 19, 20, 47–48

Mental health
, 2

Methodology
, 25

Micro-deviation
, 10

Misinformation
, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 22, 44, 57, 60–61

Mistrust
, 38, 40, 51, 65

Moral
, 11, 30, 35, 52, 61

Morality
, 44

Motivation
, 7, 20, 27, 31, 36

Movement
, 47, 51, 54

Music
, 48

Narrative
, 44, 60, 64

Natural Language Processing 7

Negligence
, 10, 35

Net neutrality
, 60

Network
, 2, 28, 34, 43, 58, 61

Normalization
, 16

Nurse
, 30, 35

Official
, 21, 33, 37, 41–42, 45, 54

Offline
, 16, 31–32, 34, 58

Online intermediaries
, 7, 61, 63, 67

Outbreak
, 1–2, 6, 13, 18

Outgroup
, 39, 40, 46, 54

Outsider
, 40, 46, 54

Pandemic
, 1–3, 30, 55, 57, 61, 64

Parent
, 6, 32

Parrhesia
, 41

Paternal internet
, 60

Patient
, 5, 31, 35

PayPal
, 36

Pedagogical philosophies
, 53

Permits
, 54

Pharma
, 35

Placebo
, 5, 22

Platform
, 4, 42, 44, 56, 63

Polarization
, 67

Polarized logic
, 6, 13, 22, 39

Policymaking
, 64

Political homogeneity
, 3, 7, 16, 19, 39, 51

Politics
, 19, 25, 50–51

Populism
, 4, 45

Positivism
, 15

Power
, 22, 35, 39, 41, 44, 48, 56

Pragmatism
, 58

Precautionary principle
, 13

Predatory
, 44–45

Presentation
, 3, 27, 43

Prevention
, 25, 66–67

Preventive measures
, 29, 31, 48, 51, 52, 54, 62

Primrose
, 54

Privacy
, 55–56

Private companies
, 5, 12, 22, 42, 50, 56, 61

Professional
, 14, 29, 37, 62, 64

Profit
, 36

Propagator
, 17, 27

Protective behaviors
, 8, 33

Provider
, 27, 31, 66

Pseudoscience
, 4, 38

Psychology
, 4, 17

Public
, 1, 8, 18, 29, 37, 49, 60–61, 64, 66

Public health
, 1, 13, 60, 63, 66

Publication
, 42, 44–45, 56, 60

Published
, 3, 18, 20, 36

Qanon
, 38

Quack
, 4, 10, 37

Qualitative analyses
, 15–16, 25, 50, 58

Quality
, 34, 60

Quarantine
, 1

Radical right
, 51

Rational calculation
, 17, 40, 44, 65

Reactance
, 52

Reason
, 3, 7, 18, 35, 62, 64, 66

Receiver
, 3, 28–29, 32, 45, 59

Regulation
, 10, 27, 62

Regulatory frameworks
, 7, 10, 12, 61–63

Religion
, 55

Religious identification
, 16, 19, 52–53

Reputable
, 34, 45

Reputation
, 34, 36

Researcher
, 44, 56, 64

Responsibility
, 8, 11, 30, 35, 39, 53, 61–63

Right to try
, 29

Risk
, 10, 16–17, 26, 48, 58, 66

Safe
, 4, 21, 34, 39

Safety
, 6, 8–9, 12, 33, 37

School
, 32–33, 53

Science
, 4, 6, 16–17, 37, 40, 45–46, 55, 64, 66

Science communication
, 17, 64

Scientific establishment
, 45–46, 52, 64, 66

Scientist
, 33, 44, 64

Scientocracy
, 45

Self
, 5, 19, 43, 53, 55

Self-help
, 5

Situational contexts
, 23, 32–33, 50, 61

Skeptic
, 33, 41, 64

Social harms
, 1, 11, 14, 16, 57, 61, 64

Social media
, 4–5, 8, 16, 19, 21, 29, 33, 42, 51, 59, 67

Social sciences
, 20, 57–58

Socialization
, 16–17, 24, 43, 58, 60

Socio-technical approach
, 59

Sociology
, 4, 25

Spiritual
, 14, 55, 65

Spirituality
, 55

State
, 12, 29, 36, 38, 53

Status
, 21, 29, 43, 46, 62, 64–65

Stereotype
, 40, 60, 39, 57, 65

Stigmatization
, 39, 57, 65

Storytelling
, 20, 27, 41, 44

Subcultural theories
, 23, 28

Subculture
, 24–25, 43

Success
, 7, 22, 39, 54, 59–60

Support
, 5, 13, 25, 27, 31, 49, 55

Supporter
, 20, 30–31–33, 59, 64

Symbol
, 49, 54

Technical intervention
, 50, 59

Technological sophistication
, 7, 10, 16

Technology
, 2, 18, 22, 38, 64

Telegram
, 32, 50

Television
, 32, 44, 64

Test
, 12

Testing
, 12–13, 56

Training
, 37, 44

Transgression
, 25, 30, 46

Trust
, 5, 8, 21, 63, 66

Truth
, 41–42, 49, 56, 64

Twitter
, 33

Uncertainty
, 17

United States
, 12–13, 51, 53

Us vs. them narrative
, 24, 36, 39, 46, 52, 64

Utilizer
, 27–29

Vaccination
, 6, 32, 38, 54, 61

Vaccine
, 12, 29, 38, 54, 65

Validation
, 35–36

Victim
, 9, 14, 29, 30, 35, 40

Video
, 20, 29, 42, 48, 55

Vulnerability
, 31, 33, 57, 63

Vulnerable victims
, 2, 9, 13, 35, 54

Wave
, 2, 17, 30, 49

Website
, 7–8, 18–19, 31, 36

Wellbeing
, 4, 22, 55

Wellness
, 31, 36, 51

WhatsApp
, 32, 50

World Health Organization (WHO)
, 1

YouTube
, 42