2021
DOI: 10.3916/c69-2021-02
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Citizen participation in Twitter: Anti-vaccine controversies in times of COVID-19

Abstract: Twitter has transformed into one of the main platforms for citizen engagement today. However, even though previous studies have focused on opinions about vaccines in general or about specific vaccines, opinions towards COVID-19 vaccines on Twitter have not been researched to date. The objective of this research is, by using social network analysis and language processing tools, to examine the degree to which the opinions and interactions present on Twitter are favorable or unfavorable towards the main COVID-19… Show more

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“…All in all, a triple approach content analysis was carried out (quantitative, qualitative and discursive on feelings), already tested in previous research [ 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 ] applied to 1913 tweets published by the official profiles of the prime ministers, health ministers, governments and health ministries of Germany, Spain, France and Italy, the four most populous EU countries.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…All in all, a triple approach content analysis was carried out (quantitative, qualitative and discursive on feelings), already tested in previous research [ 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 ] applied to 1913 tweets published by the official profiles of the prime ministers, health ministers, governments and health ministries of Germany, Spain, France and Italy, the four most populous EU countries.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Fuente: Elaboración propia. Las redes más utilizadas son Facebook, Twitter e Instagram (ver figura 2) dado su alto poder de propagación inmediata y su capacidad de adaptación a todos los temas (Carrasco Polaino & Villar Cirujano, 2021). Donde menos presencias se localizan es en las redes más innovadoras como TikTok (7 cadenas de televisión, 5 emisoras de radio y 5 periódicos) o Twitch (3 periódicos deportivos, 1 radio y 1 periódico generalista).…”
Section: Presencia De Los Medios De Comunicación En Medios Socialesunclassified
“…The development and partial implementation of the vaccines, however, has been followed by intense controversy [ 16 – 19 ]. The controversy has often been fed by the considerable amount of misinformation and disinformation about COVID-19 that has been disseminated in the U.S., often through social media platforms [ 20 23 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%