Apr 2, 2020
9 min read
Social Media in Times of Coronavirus: A Paranoid-Schizoid Pandemic?
Our world is split. Both online and everywhere else. Psychoanalysis can explain some aspects of the split.
Update November 2020: Based on this post, I have written a longer academic article which can be found here.
The Coronavirus pandemic quickly became an infodemic. It is not just fake news, but the sheer amount of information that we are provided with on a daily, minute-by-minute basis on newspaper websites and social…
