Islamophobia and Covid-19 – The role of miscommunication in conspiracies
Islamophobic Infodemic Communications on social media is an ESRC funded project to identify the drivers behind the conspiracy theories and racist ‘infodemic’ miscommunication concerning Covid-19. In this project Prof. Imran Awan and Dr Pelham Carter analyse how conspiracy theories and miscommunication on social media sites is being used to create a Covid-19 ‘infodemic’ based upon irrational beliefs and fake news ideology by the far right to peddle hate, with such narratives quickly being able to penetrate the mainstream and become normalised.
More information and the whole report: Covid-19: What are the Drivers of the Islamophobic Infodemic Communications on social media.
