Social Media and Trust in Scientific Expertise: Debating the Covid-19 Pandemic in The Netherlands

This article examines the role of social media dynamics in the public exchange of information between scientists (experts), government (policy-makers), mass media (journalists), and citizens (nonexperts) during the first 4 months after the Covid-19 outbreak in the Netherlands. Over the past decade,...

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Main Authors: José van Dijck, Donya Alinejad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-12-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120981057