The Polyvocality of Online COVID-19 Vaccine Narratives that Invoke Medical Racism

要旨

Vaccine hesitancy has always been a public health concern, and anti-vaccine campaigns that proliferate disinformation have gained traction across the US in the last 25 years. The demographics of resistance are varied, with health, religious, and, increasingly, political concerns cited as reasons. With the COVID-19 pandemic igniting the fastest development of vaccines to date, mis- and disinformation about them have become inflammatory, with campaigning allegedly including racial targeting. Through a primarily qualitative investigation, this study inductively examines a large online vaccine discussion space that invokes references to the unethical Tuskegee Syphilis Study to understand how tactics of racial targeting of Black Americans might appear publicly. We find that such targeting is entangled with a genuine discussion about medical racism and vaccine hesitancy. Across 12 distinct voices that address race, medical racism, and vaccines, we discuss how mis- and disinformation sit alongside accurate information in a “polyvocal” space.

受賞
Honorable Mention
著者
Lindsay Levkoff. Diamond
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Hande Batan
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Jennings Anderson
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Leysia Palen
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491102.3501892

動画

会議: CHI 2022

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2022.acm.org/)

セッション: Deviance Online

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