{"646613":{"#nid":"646613","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Amit Prasad Publishes Article on COVID-19 Conspiracies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the article, HSOC associate professor Amit Prasad discusses the misinformation and conspiracies that have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. He argues that these conspiracies, although on the surface they seem anti-science, commonly utilize idealized constructs of science. By studying how these conspiracies are interpreted and spread, he shows, for example, that the same conspiracy was being interpreted differently by different social\/racial groups.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article, \u0026quot;Anti-science Misinformation and Conspiracies: COVID-19, Post-Truth, and Science \u0026amp; Technology Studies (STS)\u0026quot; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/09717218211003413\u0022\u003Eis available (open-source) here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In the article, HSOC associate professor Amit Prasad discusses the misinformation and conspiracies that have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic."}],"uid":"33693","created_gmt":"2021-04-19 16:27:38","changed_gmt":"2021-04-30 14:04:05","author":"Kayleigh Haskin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"646612":{"id":"646612","type":"image","title":"Amit Prasad","body":null,"created":"1618849646","gmt_created":"2021-04-19 16:27:26","changed":"1618849646","gmt_changed":"2021-04-19 16:27:26","alt":"Amit Prasad","file":{"fid":"245455","name":"download.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/download_11.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/download_11.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":7967,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/download_11.jpeg?itok=3axTa1e6"}}},"media_ids":["646612"],"groups":[{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"},{"id":"473211","name":"_OLD: School of History and Sociology Student Blog"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166849","name":"HSOC Blog"},{"id":"172801","name":"HSOC news"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}