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Jun 25, 2020 8 tweets 6 min read
NEW to our Virtual Research Center on Covid-19 | Essays on Trump's Covid-19 briefings, decolonizing disaster response in Chile and more; a #MediaWell research review on the “infodemic;” and Prof. Brendan O’Flaherty on homelessness after pandemic. ow.ly/nSN950AhHiQ Sarah E. Parkinson (@se_parkinson) analyzes the White House coronavirus briefings through the lens of Lisa Wedeen's the politics of "as if” for our "Democracy and Pandemics" theme, arguing that the briefings become a site of authoritarian practice. ow.ly/JsTF50AhHBG