TY - JOUR
T1 - "Affective Publics"
T2 - Performing Trust on Danish Twitter during the COVID-19 Lockdown
AU - Breslin, Samantha Dawn
AU - Blok, Anders
AU - Enggaard, Thyge Ryom
AU - Gårdhus, Tobias
AU - Pedersen, Morten Axel
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In Denmark, as with elsewhere in the world, Twitter has emerged as an important arena of public discussion on issues relating to COVID-19 pandemic, including the handling of the crisis by state authorities and health institutions. Based on approximately 140,000 tweets harvested from Danish Twitter in the period between 24 February and 28 April 2020, this report explores how tweeting about mis/trust on this digital platform can be understood as a kind of biopolitical nationalism. Combining computational and qualitative methods, we identify shifting performances of mis/trust and other affects on Danish Twitter, and suggest that this “affective public” plays a key role in the public response to the coronavirus crisis.
AB - In Denmark, as with elsewhere in the world, Twitter has emerged as an important arena of public discussion on issues relating to COVID-19 pandemic, including the handling of the crisis by state authorities and health institutions. Based on approximately 140,000 tweets harvested from Danish Twitter in the period between 24 February and 28 April 2020, this report explores how tweeting about mis/trust on this digital platform can be understood as a kind of biopolitical nationalism. Combining computational and qualitative methods, we identify shifting performances of mis/trust and other affects on Danish Twitter, and suggest that this “affective public” plays a key role in the public response to the coronavirus crisis.
U2 - 10.1086/719645
DO - 10.1086/719645
M3 - Journal article
VL - 63
SP - 211
EP - 218
JO - Current Anthropology
JF - Current Anthropology
SN - 0011-3204
IS - 2
ER -