“My People Already Know That”: The Imagined Audience and COVID-19 Health Information Sharing Practices on Social Media

This article examines how imagined audiences and impression management strategies shape COVID-19 health information sharing practices on social media and considers the implications of this for combatting the spread of misinformation online. In an interview study with 27 Canadian adults, participants...

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Main Authors: Jaigris Hodson, Victoria O’Meara, Christiani Thompson, Shandell Houlden, Chandell Gosse, George Veletsianos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-09-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221122463