‘Am I being unreasonable to vaccinate my kids against my ex’s wishes?’ – A corpus linguistic exploration of conflict in vaccination discussions on Mumsnet Talk’s AIBU forum

‘Only Idiots Get Vaccinated w’: A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of Laughter-Text in Japanese Online (Anti-)Vaccination Discourses

“…These numbers testify to the popularity of Channel 5. Zooming in on the text, the COVID-19 vaccine is framed as a highly controversial topic and provokes many heated discussions (similarly to what is observed by Coltman-Patel et al [2022] on Mumsnet). In the subforum, users convey their feelings and attitudes towards the vaccine and vaccine decisions, and signal (dis)affiliation with the (no-vax) stance shared by the majority of users.…”

Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability

“…At the time of writing, Mumsnet Talk hosted 243 topics, including, for example, General Health and Children’s Health . Mumsnet Talk is associated with an open, straight-talking approach to parenting discussions (Pedersen and Smithson, 2013; Taylor, 2015), including on the topic of vaccinations (Coltman-Patel et al, 2022). Despite, or perhaps because of the perceived frank and forthright nature of this platform, contributors to particular topics and threads on Mumsnet Talk also form online discourse communities (Swales, 1990; Zappavigna, 2011) in which it is possible to share otherwise untellable parenting experiences, such as post-natal depression (Jaworska, 2018) and maternal regret (Matley, 2020).…”

“…We searched a previously created 31-million-word corpus of Mumsnet discussions of vaccinations (Coltman-Patel et al, 2022) for Original Posts (OPS) that included ‘hpv’ or ‘human papillomavirus’. 1 This generated 130 OPs, 25 of which were found to involve indecision about whether to go ahead with an imminent HPV vaccination or delay/refuse it.…”

Sorry to Hear You're Going Through a Difficult Time”: Investigating Online Discussions of Consumer Debt

“…Hardaker (2010Hardaker ( , 2013, for instance, studies Usenet newsgroup corpora for the concept of trolling, which entails the deliberate use of impolite or aggressive strategies to create conflict, often for the troll's own amusement. Coltman-Patel et al (2022) explore conflict and the use of insults in vaccination discussions on the Mumsnet Talk forum, Demmen et al (2015) study the use of violence metaphors in online cancer support forums (see also Potts and Semino 2017 ), and Hunt and Harvey (2015) use corpus linguistic methods to analyse health communication with a focus on the discourse of eating disorders.…”