Vaccine hesitancy: contemporary issues and historical background

RF Nuwarda, I Ramzan, L Weekes, V Kayser - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vaccination, despite being recognized as one of the most effective primary public health
measures, is viewed as unsafe and unnecessary by an increasing number of individuals …

A taxonomy of anti-vaccination arguments from a systematic literature review and text modelling

A Fasce, P Schmid, DL Holford, L Bates… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
The proliferation of anti-vaccination arguments is a threat to the success of many
immunization programmes. Effective rebuttal of contrarian arguments requires an approach …

The efficacy of Facebook's vaccine misinformation policies and architecture during the COVID-19 pandemic

DA Broniatowski, JR Simons, J Gu, AM Jamison… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Online misinformation promotes distrust in science, undermines public health, and may drive
civil unrest. During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, Facebook—the world's largest …

[HTML][HTML] Tweet topics and sentiments relating to COVID-19 vaccination among Australian Twitter users: machine learning analysis

SWH Kwok, SK Vadde, G Wang - Journal of medical Internet research, 2021 - jmir.org
Background: COVID-19 is one of the greatest threats to human beings in terms of health
care, economy, and society in recent history. Up to this moment, there have been no signs of …

Characterizing polarization in online vaccine discourse—A large-scale study

B Mønsted, S Lehmann - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Vaccine hesitancy is currently recognized by the WHO as a major threat to global health.
Recently, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a growing interest in …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on social media virality: content analysis of message themes and writing strategies

CSB Ngai, RG Singh, L Yao - Journal of medical Internet research, 2022 - jmir.org
Background Vaccines serve an integral role in containing pandemics, yet vaccine hesitancy
is prevalent globally. One key reason for this hesitancy is the pervasiveness of …

Cross-platform spread: vaccine-related content, sources, and conspiracy theories in YouTube videos shared in early Twitter COVID-19 conversations

T Ginossar, IJ Cruickshank, E Zheleva… - Human vaccines & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
High uptake of vaccinations is essential in fighting infectious diseases, including severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that causes the ongoing …

A systematic review of the use of topic models for short text social media analysis

CDP Laureate, W Buntine, H Linger - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
Recently, research on short text topic models has addressed the challenges of social media
datasets. These models are typically evaluated using automated measures. However, recent …

Viruses, vaccines, and COVID-19: Explaining and improving risky decision-making

VF Reyna, DA Broniatowski, SM Edelson - Journal of Applied Research in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Risky decision-making lies at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic and will determine
future viral outbreaks. Therefore, a critical evaluation of major explanations of such decision …

Multi-perspectives systematic review on the applications of sentiment analysis for vaccine hesitancy

AH Alamoodi, BB Zaidan, M Al-Masawa… - Computers in Biology …, 2021 - Elsevier
A substantial impediment to widespread Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination is
vaccine hesitancy. Many researchers across scientific disciplines have presented countless …