Negative vaccine voices in Swedish social media
(2022) In ExLing Conferences p.81-84- Abstract
- 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... (More)
- 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. (Less)
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- author
- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie LU and Dimitrios, Kokkinakis
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-10-17
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Covid-19, vaccine hesitancy, sentiment analysis, exploratory study
- host publication
- ExLing 2022 : Proceedings of 13th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics - Proceedings of 13th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics
- series title
- ExLing Conferences
- pages
- 4 pages
- publisher
- International Society of Experimental Linguistics
- ISSN
- 2529-1092
- project
- Rumour Mining: Vaccination engagement on the internet
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 78107d7c-63f5-4695-aab6-727ed518ab92
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- https://exlingsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ExLing-2022-Paris-proceedings-1.pdf#page=89
- date added to LUP
- 2022-12-19 15:48:37
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- 2023-04-14 03:00:11
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