One Platform, a Thousand Worlds: On Twitter Irony in the Early Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

On 22 February 2020, 11 municipalities in Northern Italy became the first COVID-19 red zone of Europe. Two days later, when it became evident that the virus had been spreading in the country for weeks, Italy entered a “buffer zone,” a temporal zone between normality and pandemic. The buffer zone las...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stefania Vicari, Maria Francesca Murru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-07-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120948254