The Polyvocality of Online COVID-19 Vaccine Narratives that Invoke Medical Racism
The Polyvocality of Online COVID-19 Vaccine Narratives that Invoke Medical Racism
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10.1145/3491102.3501892
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2022-04
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Lindsay Levkoff Diamond;Hande Batan;Jennings Anderson;L. Palen
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作者：
Lindsay Levkoff Diamond;Hande Batan;Jennings Anderson;L. Palen
对疫苗的犹豫一直是一个公共卫生问题，过去 25 年里，散布虚假信息的反疫苗运动在美国各地受到关注。抵抗的人口统计数据各不相同，健康、宗教以及越来越多的政治担忧被认为是原因。随着 COVID-19 大流行引发了迄今为止最快的疫苗开发，有关疫苗的错误和虚假信息已变得具有煽动性，据称竞选活动包括种族目标。通过主要定性调查，本研究归纳性地检查了一个大型在线疫苗讨论空间，该空间引用了不道德的塔斯基吉梅毒研究，以了解针对美国黑人的种族目标策略可能如何公开出现。我们发现这种针对性与有关医疗种族主义和疫苗犹豫的真正讨论纠缠在一起。我们针对种族、医疗种族主义和疫苗问题提出了 12 种不同的声音，讨论了错误信息和虚假信息如何与“多声”空间中的准确信息并存。
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.