TY - JOUR
T1 - Crises Narratives Defining the COVID-19 Pandemic
T2 - Expert Uncertainties and Conspiratorial Sensemaking
AU - Nadesan, Majia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 SAGE Publications.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Experts, news media, and social media commentators struggled to make sense of SARS-CoV-2 January–May 2020 as disease caused by this virus, COVID-19, circulated the globe. This paper represents a longitudinal analysis of the primary narratives produced across expert, media, and social media sources to describe the virus, its phylogenetic origins, and biological effects. High expert uncertainty coupled with amplifying representations of risk across time drove collective sensemaking and conspiratorial narratives.
AB - Experts, news media, and social media commentators struggled to make sense of SARS-CoV-2 January–May 2020 as disease caused by this virus, COVID-19, circulated the globe. This paper represents a longitudinal analysis of the primary narratives produced across expert, media, and social media sources to describe the virus, its phylogenetic origins, and biological effects. High expert uncertainty coupled with amplifying representations of risk across time drove collective sensemaking and conspiratorial narratives.
KW - COVID-19
KW - crisis narratives
KW - geopolitics
KW - pandemic conspiracies
KW - populism
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U2 - 10.1177/00027642221085893
DO - 10.1177/00027642221085893
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85129503837
SN - 0002-7642
JO - American Behavioral Scientist
JF - American Behavioral Scientist
ER -