Limit your body area - a COVID-19 mass radicalisation challenging autonomy and basic human rights
Glasdam, Stinne LU and Stjernswärd, Sigrid LU
(2021)
In International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare
14(3).
p.192-208
- Abstract
- Purpose
This paper aims to explore articulations of how individuals internalise official demands on handling COVID-19 and the function of social media in this process, and further to discuss this from a human rights’ perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
A thematic analysis of qualitative data from an international survey on COVID-19 and social media. The analysis was inspired by Berger and Luckmann's theory of reality as a social construction.
Findings
Articulations expressed an instant internalisation and externalisation of the officially defined “new normal”. However, negotiations of this “new normal” were articulated, whereby everyday life activities could proceed. Resistance to the “new normal” appeared, as... (More) - Purpose
This paper aims to explore articulations of how individuals internalise official demands on handling COVID-19 and the function of social media in this process, and further to discuss this from a human rights’ perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
A thematic analysis of qualitative data from an international survey on COVID-19 and social media. The analysis was inspired by Berger and Luckmann's theory of reality as a social construction.
Findings
Articulations expressed an instant internalisation and externalisation of the officially defined “new normal”. However, negotiations of this “new normal” were articulated, whereby everyday life activities could proceed. Resistance to the “new normal” appeared, as routines and common sense understandings of everyday life were threatened. Health-care professionals were put in a paradoxical situation, living in accordance with the “new normal” outside work and legitimately deviating from it at work. The “new normal” calls for individuals’ “oughtonomy” rather than autonomy. Social media were used to push individual’s re-socialisation into the “new normal”. The latter both promoted and challenged human rights as the individual's right to self-determination extends beyond the self as it risks threatening other people's right to life.
Originality/value
With the means of a theoretically based thematic analysis inspired by Berger and Luckmann, the current study shows how articulations on COVID-19 and social media can both support and challenge human rights and reality as a facticity as dictated by dominant organisations and discourses in society.
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- author
- Glasdam, Stinne
LU
and Stjernswärd, Sigrid
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- COVID-19, the ‘new normal’, Berger & Luckmann, Mass radicalisation, Human Rights, Democracy., Thematic analysis
- in
- International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare
- volume
- 14
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 192 - 208
- publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85099769895
- ISSN
- 2056-4902
- DOI
- 10.1108/IJHRH-07-2020-0055
- project
- Social media and COVID-19
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 125e106a-246f-43f3-8310-118314bfe7f7
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- 2020-12-18 16:24:34
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