Anti-vaccine activists, Web 2.0, and the postmodern paradigm--an overview of tactics and tropes used online by the anti-vaccination movement.

By Anna Kata. Vaccine, 2012

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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The Role of Epistemic Emotions in Personal Epistemology and Self-Regulated Learning (2018, background): “0, where self-authored, unregulated content continues to grow exponentially (Kata, 2012).”
Why conspiracy theories matter: A social psychological analysis (2018, background): “about vaccine efficacy and safety are common (Kata, 2012).”
Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation (2016, background): “The worrying consequences in the oﬄine world [8, 22, 29, 23, 27, 7]; examples include rumors [18], false news [8, 23], hoaxes, and Hurricane Sandy, false reports that the New York Stocks Exchange had been ﬂooded were corrected in less than an hour [36].”
Beyond confidence: Development of a measure assessing the 5C psychological antecedents of vaccination (2018, background): “Depending on the information sources that are used, high calculation can lead to non-vaccination due to the high availability of anti-vaccination sources, for instance, in the internet [48].”
Mistrust and misinformation: A two-component, socio-epistemic model of belief in conspiracy theories (2020, background): “A wide variety of internet and social media sites promote pseudo-scientific tropes about vaccines, elevate anecdotal accounts of harm over objective research, and breed mistrust in authoritative sources of vaccine-related information (Evrony & Caplan, 2017; Kata, 2012).”
Social Media, Science, and Attack Discourse: How Twitter Discussions of Climate Change Use Sarcasm and Incivility (2017, background): “Other examples point to the possibility of social media to foster skeptical viewpoints on other scientific topics, such as vaccines (e.g., Kata, 2012).”
Systematic Literature Review on the Spread of Health-related Misinformation on Social Media (2019, background): “Authors recommended comprehensive, structured, and easily understandable responses to anti-vaccination messages (Betsch and Sachse, 2012; Kata, 2012; Reyna, 2012; Nicholson and Leask, 2012) .”