The Politics of Covid Vaccine Hesitancy and Opposition

Opposition to vaccines is not a new phenomenon, but positions once associated with traditional religious or conservative stances have given way to some highly disparate views that transcend traditional left/right/religious divisions. This article reviews recent literature showing how social media ha...

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Autores principales: Sorell, Tom, Butler, Jethro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2022
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Reports and Surveys
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9111101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35600736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13134
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description Opposition to vaccines is not a new phenomenon, but positions once associated with traditional religious or conservative stances have given way to some highly disparate views that transcend traditional left/right/religious divisions. This article reviews recent literature showing how social media has contributed to the spread of conspiracy theories around Covid‐19 and mass vaccination programmes. The narratives discussed are principally those of the right and the religious right.
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spelling pubmed-91111012022-05-17 The Politics of Covid Vaccine Hesitancy and Opposition Sorell, Tom Butler, Jethro Polit Q Reports and Surveys Opposition to vaccines is not a new phenomenon, but positions once associated with traditional religious or conservative stances have given way to some highly disparate views that transcend traditional left/right/religious divisions. This article reviews recent literature showing how social media has contributed to the spread of conspiracy theories around Covid‐19 and mass vaccination programmes. The narratives discussed are principally those of the right and the religious right. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2022-04-21 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9111101/ /pubmed/35600736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13134 Text en © 2022 The Authors. The Political Quarterly published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Political Quarterly Publishing Co (PQPC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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