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How do politics impact on access to information about Covid-19?

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The impact party politics has on the circulation of information about COVID-19 is the topic of a new article in the Canadian Journal of Political Science.

Doctoral Student of Social Anthropology Isabelle Johansson has together with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside published the article titled: ”The Partisan Impact on Local Government Dissemination of COVID-19 Information: Assessing U.S. County Government Websites”.

The article is available as open access.

Find a preview of the article at www.cambridge.org

Authors of the article

  • Michael A. Hansen, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
  • Isabelle Johansson, Lund University
  • Kalie Sadowski, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
  • Joseph Blaszcynski, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
  • Sarah Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Isabelle Johansson at the Department of Sociology

Isabelle Johansson is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the Department of Sociology, Lund University. She also lectures in criminology and sociology at Kristianstad University. Her dissertation “In My Secret Life – Longing, Love and Loneliness in Paid Sex” looks at paid sexual relations from the client perspective.

Learn more on Isabelle Johansson's personal page here on the Department's website.