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Advocacy, Hesitancy, and Equity: Exploring U.S. Race-Related Discussions of the COVID-19 Vaccine on Twitter
Background: Our study aimed to describe themes of tweets related to COVID-19 vaccines, race, and ethnicity to explore the context of the intersection of these topics on Twitter. Methods: We utilized Twitter’s Streaming Application Programming Interface (API) to collect a random 1% sample of publicly...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8198507/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34073291 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115693 |
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author | Criss, Shaniece Nguyen, Thu T. Norton, Samantha Virani, Imaya Titherington, Eli Tillmanns, Emma Lou Kinnane, Courtney Maiolo, Gabrielle Kirby, Anne B. Gee, Gilbert C. |
author_facet | Criss, Shaniece Nguyen, Thu T. Norton, Samantha Virani, Imaya Titherington, Eli Tillmanns, Emma Lou Kinnane, Courtney Maiolo, Gabrielle Kirby, Anne B. Gee, Gilbert C. |
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description | Background: Our study aimed to describe themes of tweets related to COVID-19 vaccines, race, and ethnicity to explore the context of the intersection of these topics on Twitter. Methods: We utilized Twitter’s Streaming Application Programming Interface (API) to collect a random 1% sample of publicly available tweets from October 2020 to January 2021. The study team conducted a qualitative content analysis from the full data set of 1110 tweets. Results: The tweets revealed vaccine support through vaccine affirmation, advocacy through reproach, a need for a vaccine, COVID-19 and racism, vaccine development and efficacy, racist vaccine humor, and news updates. Vaccine opposition was demonstrated through direct opposition, vaccine hesitancy, and adverse reactions. Conspiracy and misinformation included scientific misinformation, political misinformation, beliefs about immunity and protective behaviors, and race extermination conspiracy. Equity and access focused on overcoming history of medical racism, pointing out health disparities, and facilitators to vaccine access. Representation touted pride in development and role models, and politics discussed the role of politics in vaccines and international politics. Conclusion: Our analysis demonstrates that Twitter can provide nuances about multiple viewpoints on the vaccine related to race and ethnicity and can be beneficial in contributing to insights for public health messaging. |
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spelling | pubmed-81985072021-06-14 Advocacy, Hesitancy, and Equity: Exploring U.S. Race-Related Discussions of the COVID-19 Vaccine on Twitter Criss, Shaniece Nguyen, Thu T. Norton, Samantha Virani, Imaya Titherington, Eli Tillmanns, Emma Lou Kinnane, Courtney Maiolo, Gabrielle Kirby, Anne B. Gee, Gilbert C. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: Our study aimed to describe themes of tweets related to COVID-19 vaccines, race, and ethnicity to explore the context of the intersection of these topics on Twitter. Methods: We utilized Twitter’s Streaming Application Programming Interface (API) to collect a random 1% sample of publicly available tweets from October 2020 to January 2021. The study team conducted a qualitative content analysis from the full data set of 1110 tweets. Results: The tweets revealed vaccine support through vaccine affirmation, advocacy through reproach, a need for a vaccine, COVID-19 and racism, vaccine development and efficacy, racist vaccine humor, and news updates. Vaccine opposition was demonstrated through direct opposition, vaccine hesitancy, and adverse reactions. Conspiracy and misinformation included scientific misinformation, political misinformation, beliefs about immunity and protective behaviors, and race extermination conspiracy. Equity and access focused on overcoming history of medical racism, pointing out health disparities, and facilitators to vaccine access. Representation touted pride in development and role models, and politics discussed the role of politics in vaccines and international politics. Conclusion: Our analysis demonstrates that Twitter can provide nuances about multiple viewpoints on the vaccine related to race and ethnicity and can be beneficial in contributing to insights for public health messaging. MDPI 2021-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8198507/ /pubmed/34073291 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115693 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Criss, Shaniece Nguyen, Thu T. Norton, Samantha Virani, Imaya Titherington, Eli Tillmanns, Emma Lou Kinnane, Courtney Maiolo, Gabrielle Kirby, Anne B. Gee, Gilbert C. Advocacy, Hesitancy, and Equity: Exploring U.S. Race-Related Discussions of the COVID-19 Vaccine on Twitter |
title | Advocacy, Hesitancy, and Equity: Exploring U.S. Race-Related Discussions of the COVID-19 Vaccine on Twitter |
title_full | Advocacy, Hesitancy, and Equity: Exploring U.S. Race-Related Discussions of the COVID-19 Vaccine on Twitter |
title_fullStr | Advocacy, Hesitancy, and Equity: Exploring U.S. Race-Related Discussions of the COVID-19 Vaccine on Twitter |
title_full_unstemmed | Advocacy, Hesitancy, and Equity: Exploring U.S. Race-Related Discussions of the COVID-19 Vaccine on Twitter |
title_short | Advocacy, Hesitancy, and Equity: Exploring U.S. Race-Related Discussions of the COVID-19 Vaccine on Twitter |
title_sort | advocacy, hesitancy, and equity: exploring u.s. race-related discussions of the covid-19 vaccine on twitter |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8198507/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34073291 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115693 |
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