How We Tweet About Coronavirus and Why

DISTRACT researchers Morten Axel Pedersen, Anders Blok, Thyge Enggård and Tobias Gårdhus have contributed to a post on the internationally recognized blog Somatosphere, with the title "How We Tweet About Coronavirus, and Why: A Computational Anthropological Mapping of Political Attention on Danish Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic."

The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant political, social, and economic effects across the globe, including in Denmark. In response to the pandemic, the Danish government, as one of the first countries in Europe and indeed the world, decided to close its borders, lockdown public institutions, and ban gatherings over ten people, among other “social distancing” measures. Like elsewhere in the world, Twitter has emerged as an important space for public discussion and debate around COVID-19 in Denmark. How are we to understand what, how, and why we post in relation to this pressing matter of global concern?  

Read the blog post here: http://somatosphere.net/forumpost/covid19-danish-twitter-computational-map/