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Riding information crises: the performance of far-right Twitter users in Australia during the 2019–2020 bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Source :
- Information, Communication & Society; 2024, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p278-296, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper focuses on the performance of the far-right community in the Australian Twittersphere during two information crises: the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires and the early months of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Using a mixed method approach to analysing the performance of far-right accounts active in both crises and using an information disorder index to estimate the quality of information being shared on Twitter during the two events, we found that far-right accounts moved from the periphery of these disaster-driven conversations during the Australian bushfires to assume a more central location during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that an increase in information disorder and overperformance of far-right accounts during COVID-19 is suggestive of an association between the two, which warrants further investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1369118X
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Information, Communication & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175302679
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2205479