COVID-19: Relationship between social media use and prejudice against Chinese Americans
Thursday, June 11, 2020 - 23:00
in Psychology & Sociology
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that originated in China has claimed an estimated 100,000 lives in the United States, while a different sort of pandemic is spreading online against Asian Americans, particularly of Chinese descent. A study published in Frontiers in Communication suggests there is a strong relationship between social media use and prejudice.