An AIDS-Denialist Online Community on a Russian Social Networking Service: Patterns of Interactions With Newcomers and Rhetorical Strategies of Persuasion

BackgroundThe rise of social media proved to be a fertile ground for the expansion of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-denialist movement (in the form of online communities). While there is substantial literature devoted to disproving AIDS-denialist views, there is a lack of studies ex...

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Main Authors: Meylakhs, Peter, Rykov, Yuri, Koltsova, Olessia, Koltsov, Sergey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: JMIR Publications 2014-11-01
Series:Journal of Medical Internet Research
Online Access:http://www.jmir.org/2014/11/e261/