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CORRECTION article

Front. Sociol.
Sec. Sociology of Law
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1535266

Corrigendum: Making sense of a pandemic: reasoning about COVID-19 in the intellectual dark web

Provisionally accepted
Sean T Doody Sean T Doody *
  • University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, United States

This article is a correction to:

  1. Making Sense of a Pandemic: Reasoning About COVID-19 in the Intellectual Dark Web

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    PAGE \* Arabic \* MERGEFORMAT 3 In the published article, the reference for Ozduzen et al. (2023) was incorrectly written as Ozduzen, O., Aslan Ozgul, B., and Ianosev, B. (2023). 'Institutions of governance are all corrupted': anti-political collective identity of anti-lockdown protesters in digital and physical spaces. Soc. Mov. Stud. 1-19, 1-19. doi: 10.1080/14742837.2023.2246920. It should be Ozduzen, O., Aslan Ozgul, B., and Ianosev, B. (2023). 'Institutions of governance are all corrupted': anti-political collective identity of anti-lockdown protesters in digital and physical spaces. Soc. Mov. Stud. 1-19. doi: 10.1080/14742837.2023.2246920. In the published article, the reference for Richards and Jones ( 2021 In the published article, the reference for Rohlinger and Bunnage ( 2018 In the published article, the reference for Žižek (2000) was incorrectly written as Žižek, S. (2000). The ticklish subject. New York, Verso: The absent Centre of political ontology. It should be Žižek, S. (2000). The ticklish subject: The absent centre of political ontology. New York: Verso. In the published article, the reference for Zuboff (2019) was incorrectly written as Zuboff, S. (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism. New York, PublicAffairs: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power. It should be Zuboff, S. ( 2019). The age of surveillance capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power. New York: PublicAffairs. After fixing a reference, a correction has been made to a sentence in Literature Review, 2.2 The r/IntellectualDarkWeb subreddit, Paragraph 1. The sentence previously stated:PAGE \* Arabic \* MERGEFORMAT 3"Detailed demographic information about Reddit users is hard to come by, though estimates suggest that it leans young and male (Mitchell et al., 2016;Pew Research Center, 2024)."The corrected sentence appears below: "Detailed demographic information about Reddit users is hard to come by, though estimates suggest that it leans young and male (Barthel et al., 2016;Pew Research Center, 2024)." In the published article, the wrong citation was used for the first footnote.A correction has been made to Introduction, Paragraph 4, Footnote 1. This sentence previously stated:""Reactionary" is used here to capture the reactive nature of groups like the IDW: the positioning of themselves in opposition to the "'woke' mob, social justice warriors, and the liberal establishment" (Bianchi, 2024, p. 2)."The corrected sentence appears below:""Reactionary" is used here to capture the reactive nature of groups like the IDW: the positioning of themselves in opposition to the "'woke' mob, social justice warriors, and the liberal establishment" (Ma, 2024, p. 200)."The author apologizes for these errors and states that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

    Keywords: Intellectual dark web, Reddit, Social Media, collective identity, COVID-19, Vaccines, Social Movements, Topic Modeling

    Received: 27 Nov 2024; Accepted: 09 Dec 2024.

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    * Correspondence: Sean T Doody, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, United States

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