An AIDS-Denialist Online Community on a Russian Social Networking Service: Patterns of Interactions With Newcomers and Rhetorical Strategies of Persuasion

• Egile Nagusiak: Meylakhs, Peter (Egilea), Rykov, Yuri (Egilea), Koltsova, Olessia (Egilea), Koltsov, Sergey (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: JMIR Publications, 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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BackgroundThe rise of social media proved to be a fertile ground for the expansion of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-denialist movement (in the form of online communities). While there is substantial literature devoted to disproving AIDS-denialist views, there is a lack of studies ex...