2024
DOI: 10.1177/26349795241292551
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Arguing with numbers in social media based COVID-19 debates: A study of the argumentative functions of visual graphs

Sumin Zhao,
Chris Cummins

Abstract: This study engages with a growing body of literature on numerical communication in COVID-19, which suggests that numbers and numerical measurements can be manipulated to shape governmental policy and public health measures. It uniquely focuses on numerical graphs generated through professional open-resource visualization tools but used by laypersons in social media debates. By combining theories of multimodality and linguistic theories of argumentativity, we analyzed Twitter interactions on COVID-19 policy tha… Show more

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