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Mia-Marie Hammarlin

Mia-Marie Hammarlin

Universitetslektor

Mia-Marie Hammarlin

Negative vaccine voices in Swedish social media

Författare

  • Mia-Marie Hammarlin
  • Kokkinakis Dimitrios

Summary, in English

Vaccinations are one of the most significant interventions to public health, but vaccine hesitancy creates concerns for a portion of the population in many countries, including Sweden. Since discussions on vaccine hesitancy are often taken on social networking sites, data from Swedish social media are used to study and quantify the sentiment among the discussants on the vaccination-or-not topic during phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Out of all the posts analyzed a majority showed a stronger negative sentiment, prevailing throughout the whole of the examined period, with some spikes or jumps due to the occurrence of certain vaccine-related events distinguishable in the results. Sentiment analysis can be a valuable tool to track public opinions regarding the use, efficacy, safety, and importance of vaccination.

Avdelning/ar

  • Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

Publiceringsår

2022-10-17

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

81-84

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

ExLing Conferences

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

International Society of Experimental Linguistics

Ämne

  • Media Studies

Nyckelord

  • Covid-19
  • vaccine hesitancy
  • sentiment analysis
  • exploratory study

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Rumour Mining: Vaccination engagement on the internet

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2529-1092