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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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JMIR Publications
2014-11-01
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Series: | Journal of Medical Internet Research |
Online Access: | http://www.jmir.org/2014/11/e261/ |