In:
First Monday, University of Illinois Libraries, ( 2020-09-25)
Abstract:
AIDS denialist publics congregate online, circulating discourses that dissent from mainstream health science, encouraging behaviors that cause unnecessary exposures and premature death. We offer “networked public analysis” as a means to leverage computational research methods to discover the texts that are important to networked publics. From a close reading of the core texts of an AIDS denialist networked public, we illustrate digital rhetorics characterized by empowering interactivity, offering control and stability to persons experiencing the existential suffering that can attend HIV+ diagnosis. We underscore the necessity of communication researchers, health care providers, scientists, and public health officials to consider the existential situations of AIDS denialist publics, which entangle denials of AIDS science with legitimate social anxieties.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1396-0466
DOI:
10.5210/fm.v25i10.10273
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
University of Illinois Libraries
Publication Date:
2020
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2000460-6
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