scholarly journals Our Best Shot: Bridging the Gap in the Vaccine Divide

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
Caitlyn Allen
Keyword(s):  
Vaccine Debate

Infection preventionist, JoAnn Adkins; psychologist, Dr. Lily Brown; and mother of a son with autism, Susan Senator, share their insights into how vaccines work, how to recognize when anxiety may be clouding our judgment, and how both sides of the vaccine debate can finally have a real—and productive—conversation.

Evaluation of a multinational, multilingual vaccine debate on Twitter

Vaccine ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (50) ◽  
pp. 6166-6171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedikt F.H. Becker ◽  
Heidi J. Larson ◽  
Jan Bonhoeffer ◽  
Erik M. van Mulligen ◽  
Jan A. Kors ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vaccine Debate

scholarly journals Redefining Mandatory Vaccination as Necessary to Life and the Refusal of Vaccination as Criminal Negligence Causing Death

INvoke ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
SUSA Submissions ◽  
Cody Bondarchuk
Keyword(s):  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Childhood Vaccination ◽  
Medical Procedures ◽  
Preventable Disease ◽  
Medical Neglect ◽  
History Of ◽  
Canadian Criminal Code ◽  
Vaccine Debate ◽  
Mandatory Vaccination

This paper argues that childhood vaccination should be considered a necessary of life as defined in Section 215 (1) of the Canadian Criminal Code, and parents who do not vaccinate their children should be considered responsible for death by criminal negligence if their child dies from a preventable disease. It timelines the long history of the vaccine debate from the perspective of both science of skeptics and points to the since-retracted Wakefield paper as the catalyst for the re-emergence of this debate, detailing the science behind why vaccination is safe, effective, and necessary. It then outlines the theory of medical neglect as a form of indirect killing in the same way starvation or lack of shelter is currently considered neglect under the Code, to prove that vaccination is required for all children who can be vaccinated and the dangers of not doing so. It concludes with notes on disease prevention and education to increase the number of vaccinated children, as the goal of defining vaccination as a necessary of life is not meant to punish parents but to encourage higher rates of vaccination and a greater communal knowledge of medical procedures.

scholarly journals Information disorder, the Triumvirate, and COVID-19: How media outlets, foreign state intrusion, and the far-right diaspora drive the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-45
Author(s):  
Aman Bajwa
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Foreign State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information Operations ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Vaccine Debate

Information disorder has become an increasing concern in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election. With the state of the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly evolving in all facets, the vaccination debate has become increasingly polarized and subjected to a form of politics based around identity markers such as nationality, ethnicity, gender, and ideology. At the forefront of this is the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement that has gained mainstream attention, leading to conflict with pro-vaccinationists. This has paved the way for exploitation by subversive elements such as, foreign state-backed disinformation campaigns, alternative news outlets, and right-wing influencers who spread false and misleading information, or disinformation, on COVID-19 in order to promote polarization of the vaccine debate through identity politics. Disinformation spread sows confusion and disorder, leading to the erosion of social cohesion as well as the potential for real-world conflict and violence. As a result, the article below will generate further understanding of the modern-day spread of disinformation, the strategies and tactics utilized by state and non-state actors, the effects of its exposure, and the social-psychological processes involved in its spread and resonance. Furthermore, in countering this phenomenon, this article recommends a collaborative framework involving emphasis on critical media literacy skills, citizen participation, and development of counter-offensive capabilities towards state-backed information operations.

USA: Vaccine debate

The Lancet ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 341 (8851) ◽  
pp. 1015
Author(s):  
Michael McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Vaccine Debate

scholarly journals VINCENT: A visual analytics system for investigating the online vaccine debate

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Ninkov ◽  
Kamran Sedig
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Visual Analytics ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Human Data ◽  
Vaccine Debate

This paper reports and describes VINCENT, a visual analytics system that is designed to help public health stakeholders (i.e., users) make sense of data from websites involved in the online debate about vaccines. VINCENT allows users to explore visualizations of data from a group of 37 vaccine-focused websites. These websites differ in their position on vaccines, topics of focus about vaccines, geographic location, and sentiment towards the efficacy and morality of vaccines, specific and general ones. By integrating webometrics, natural language processing of website text, data visualization, and human-data interaction, VINCENT helps users explore complex data that would be difficult to understand, and, if at all possible, to analyze without the aid of computational tools.The objectives of this paper are to explore A) the feasibility of developing a visual analytics system that integrates webometrics, natural language processing of website text, data visualization, and human-data interaction in a seamless manner; B) how a visual analytics system can help with the investigation of the online vaccine debate; and C) what needs to be taken into consideration when developing such a system. This paper demonstrates that visual analytics systems can integrate different computational techniques; that such systems can help with the exploration of public health online debates that are distributed across a set of websites; and that care should go into the design of the different components of such systems. 

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