[De]Politicizing the Pandemic
Visually Communicating Digital Public Sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758134 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Robinson (0000-0001-9022-9375, Santa Clara University, corresponding author), Juliana Maria Trammel (Savannah State University), Katia Moles (0009-0005-2851-696X, Santa Clara University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1177-1191 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642231156769 |
| OpenAlex | W4376873799 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
In the context of the COVID-19 infodemic , we explore discourse around a highly polarized health issue: mask wearing during the pandemic. Probing ideologically charged discourse from #masks on Twitter, we examine the potential for visual tools to promote digital citizen social science. Our case study reveals the promise of visualization to make ideological discourse on social media more easily identifiable by members of the general public. This leads us to argue that accessible visualization tools are needed for the public to ethically engage as digital citizen social scientists who actively analyze their own media consumption and outputs. Doing so would potentially awaken the sociological imagination by giving digital prosumers the agency to contextualize the social structure of debate around issues of public concern. In this way, visualizations of social media may ignite the sociological imagination in the tradition of digital public sociology
Agency (philosophy) · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Ideology · Media studies · Medical sociology · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public relations · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Media and Politics
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Production, Consumption, Prosumption
Institutional trauma across the Americas
Debating the Events of September 11th
The Sociological Imagination
Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter
The Public and Their Platforms
Covid-19, Creative Conflict, and the Seven Cs
The "Parallel Pandemic" in the Context of China
Online Conspiracy Groups
Cascading Crises
A Social Diagnosis of Digitally Mediated Covid-19 Trauma
Classifying Twitter Topic-Networks Using Social Network Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |