Expert construction during the Italian vaccination campaign against COVID-19: positional, reputational, and communicational spheres in comparison
Keywords:
visible expert, media representation, COVID-19 vaccination campaignAbstract
The purpose of this article is to understand what mechanism leads specific actors of the scientific community to assume the central role of experts during the COVID-19 pandemic vaccination campaign. Thanks to the understanding of the world of narratives and self-constructed representations we will try to understand if the figure of the expert is influenced by the institutional role they play, the network of collaborations and the academic network as a proxy of their reputation and, finally, what figure emerges instead from the mainstream media such as the press and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
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