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Brazil’s Contentious Pandemic: Anti- and Pro-Lockdown Protests in Time of Covid-19
by Rafael de Souza...of expression. During the first wave, both sides attempted to impose their agendas on the public sphere. The second wave came in early January 2021 and stopped in July 2021....
Keeping Essential Workers Safe: Migrant Farmworkers and Covid-19 in the Dairy Industry
by Jennifer Bair and Kathryn Babineau...included interviews with farmers, state officials and regulators, industry associations, and civil society groups. We also conducted a survey of 104 farmworkers. The survey was administered online, as well as...
Training the Covid-19 Cohort: Adapting and Preserving Social Science Research
by Fotini Christia and J. Chappell Lawson...hands. There are also exciting opportunities for researchers to charge ahead in the online world, with user-friendly tools for online data collection and analysis of text,8Michael Freedman, “Fighting from the...
How Social Media Influences Democracy: New State-of-the-Field Report from a Recent Conference
by Kris-Stella Trump...use and how democracy functions. Their topics included the causes of incivility online, the differences between online and offline political conversations, echo chambers, the spread of fake news, the correction...
Disaster Management in Japan during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Were the Lessons Learned from Large-scale Natural Disasters Applied?
by Mampei Hayashi...the Covid-19 virus. Suga followed up by declaring a second state of emergency on January 7, 2021.4On March 21, 2021, the state of emergency that had been in effect in...
The SSRC’s Top Ten Most-Read Essays of 2021
With the new year on the horizon, we’re looking back to some of the most popular writing we published in 2021. Over the past year, scholars explored pressing topics including...
Accounting for Care in Times of Crisis
by Robert Soden, Jacqueline Wernimont and Scott Gabriel Knowles...Online, July 20, 2021. Meanwhile, the American Nursing Association is calling the nursing staff shortage a national crisis.7Ernest Grant, letter to Secretrary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra from...
Media Infrastructure Is and Has Always Been a Matter of Life and Death
by Jacqueline Wernimont...for online appointments? If we consider vaccine websites as one of the many ways that our lives are mediated by online content and process, that they are literally vital in...
Hate in the Time of the Virus: Covid-19, Fake News, and Islamophobia in India
by Anirban Baishya...dead bodies. These tragedies of 2021 were already in the making in 2020. From mismanagement of medical supplies and attacks on doctors to the prolonged suffering and deaths of internal...