Social Media, Vaccines, and Partisan Division of Health Information. Issue 1 (13th October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hagen, Loni; Greyson, Devon; Fox, Ashley; Koltai, Kolina; Dumas, Catherine
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Volume 58:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 594
• Page End: 597
• Publication Date: 2021-10-13
• Subjects: Health Information Behavior -- Politics -- Social Media -- Vaccine; Information science -- Congresses; Information technology -- Congresses; Information science; Information technology; Conference papers and proceedings; 020
• DOI: 10.1002/pra2.506
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2373-9231

Abstract

Abstract: Vaccine confidence and uptake is essential to achieving herd immunity levels sufficient to end the COVID‐19 pandemic; however, polarized and partisan discussion on vaccines have increased the difficulty of achieving sufficient vaccine coverage in the population. As individual's health information seeking behaviors diversify, studies suggest that social media is a major "battle ground" for shaping attitudes toward vaccines. Interdisciplinary experts on vaccine discourse will discuss the information context of the vaccine debate, political influence, and attitudes towards science and vaccines against the backdrop of social media. This panel is expected to contribute to the field of information science by invoking a conversation on social media, an important information communication technology, as a field of study that inter‐connects the most current vaccine conversation with theories of partisan behavior of health information and affordance of technology. This panel is sponsored by SIG SM.