Cybercrime Awareness Seminar: Investigating the Digital Dr

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For this Cybercrime Awareness Clinic Series Seminar, we will be joined by Dr Anita Lavorgna, Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Southampton. Dr Lavorgna will discuss her research into medical misinformation online.

Since early 2020, the “coronavirus pandemic” struck the world in a very distinctive way: experience from past pandemics or from more recent outbreaks could give us only a limited understanding of how the situation was likely to unfold, as this was the first time that a health crisis – an actual krisis, considering how the pandemic led to an unstable and uncertain situation, affecting individuals, communities and many societies alike – of this proportion occurred in a world extremely integrated. In this context, and with cyberspace being increasingly used to support health-related decision making and to market health products, potentially harmful behaviours have been carried out by individuals propagating non-science-based health (mis)information and conspiratorial thinking – ranging from boycotting the use of masks and physical distancing, to proactively opposing the use of the COVID-19 candidate vaccines, to promoting the use of useless or even dangerous substances to prevent or resist the virus. This presentation focuses on some recent studies carried out by Dr Lavorgna over the past year, shedding light on these potentially dangerous social practices, and conceptualizing them in the broader context of technology-facilitated social harms.

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