RAPID: The Rise and Propagation of Anti-Vax and Anti-Access Social Media Campaigns Targeted at Disadvantaged and Minority Populations during the COVID19 Pandemic

RAPID：新冠病毒大流行期间针对弱势群体和少数群体的反疫苗和反访问社交媒体运动的兴起和传播

• 批准号: 2127545
• 负责人: Leysia Palen
• 金额: $ 18.28万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-15 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2127545&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Rise; Propagation; Anti; Vax

As long as there have been vaccines, there has been vaccine hesitancy. When vaccine hesitancy leads to lowered vaccination rates, there is a greater risk for preventable illness in communities. Increasingly, vaccination has become a target for misinformation and disinformation offline and online. Some disinformation purveyors particularly target disadvantaged and minority populations, which for historical reasons may distrust the public health establishment and medical research. Among these groups, distrust in the healthcare system is often accompanied by multiple barriers to healthcare and a heightened susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection. The research team is conducting quick-response research to better understand the social media mechanisms that threaten COVID-19 vaccination compliance and disinformation targeted at minority and disadvantaged groups. This project explores how anti-vaccine campaigns arise and how they use language and narratives to incite fear of vaccination and rejection of public health messages. An ultimate goal of the project is to further equity in citizen knowledge and public health. The primary sites of investigation are social media interactions on Twitter, with supplemental fieldwork in geographical communities. Social media studies will include both quantitative and qualitative analysis methods. Data sets will be created that capture unique terms (commercial vaccine names, those that signal groups targeted for anti-vaccine narratives (e.g., “tuskegee”), those using terms that signal vaccine resistance but are noisier (e.g., “gene therapy”), and those capturing phrases such as (“do your own research”). Retrospective searches are intended to detect the genesis of new anti-vaccine narratives. Finally, supplemental fieldwork using semi-structured interviews conducted in West Dallas investigates if and how online anti-vaccine narratives targeted at Black and Latinx groups appear in geographical space. Students will be involved at all stages of the research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

只要有疫苗，就有疫苗，就有疫苗犹豫。当疫苗犹豫会导致疫苗率降低时，社区可预防疾病的风险更大。疫苗越来越多地成为离线和在线虚假信息的目标。一些虚假信息供应商尤其针对弱势群体和少数民族人口，出于历史原因，这可能不信任公共卫生机构和医学研究。在这些群体中，对医疗保健系统的不信任通常伴随着医疗保健的多个障碍，并且对SARS-COV-2感染的敏感性增强。研究团队正在进行快速响应研究，以更好地了解威胁到Covid-19-19疫苗合规性和针对少数群体和无灾群体的虚假信息的社交媒体机制。该项目探讨了反疫苗运动是如何出现的，以及他们如何使用语言和叙述来激发人们对公共卫生信息的恐惧和拒绝。该项目的最终目标是进一步的公民知识和公共卫生。投资的主要网站是Twitter上的社交媒体互动，并在地理社区中具有补充现场工作。社交媒体研究将包括定量和定性分析方法。将创建数据集，以捕获独特的术语（商业疫苗名称，针对抗疫苗叙事的针对抗疫苗的叙述（例如，“ Tuskegee”），那些使用信号疫苗抵抗的术语但更嘈杂的术语（例如，“基因治疗”）（例如“基因治疗”）以及那些捕获诸如“您自己的研究”叙事的措施。最后，在西达拉斯进行的半结构化访谈的补充现场工作调查了针对黑人和拉丁裔小组的在线反疫苗叙事如何在研究阶段参与。

项目成果

The Polyvocality of Online COVID-19 Vaccine Narratives that Invoke Medical Racism

• DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3501892
• 发表时间: 2022-04
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• 作者: Lindsay Levkoff Diamond;Hande Batan;Jennings Anderson;L. Palen