The Visual Vaccine Debate on Twitter: A Social Network Analysis

Abstract: Pro- and anti-vaccination users use social media outlets, such as Twitter, to join conversations about vaccines, disseminate information or misinformation about immunization, and advocate in favour or against vaccinations. These users not only share textual content, but also images to emphasise their messages and influence their audiences. Though previous studies investigated the content of vaccine images, there is little research on how these visuals are distributed in digital environments. Therefore, this study explored how images related to vaccination are shared on Twitter to gain insight into the communities and networks formed around their dissemination. Moreover, this research also investigated who influences the distribution of vaccine images, and could be potential gatekeepers of vaccination information. We conducted a social network analysis on samples of tweets with images collected in June, September and October 2016. In each dataset, pro- and anti-vaccination users for

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Media and Communication ; 8 (2020) 2 ; 364-375

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wer)
SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
(wann)
2020
Urheber
Milani, Elena
Weitkamp, Emma
Webb, Peter

DOI
10.17645/mac.v8i2.2847
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021092007594559277572
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte

  • Milani, Elena
  • Weitkamp, Emma
  • Webb, Peter
  • SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.

Entstanden

  • 2020

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