Comparing covariation among vaccine hesitancy and broader beliefs within Twitter and survey data.

ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, the percentage of adults in the United States who use some form of social media has roughly doubled, increasing from 36 percent in early 2009 to 72 percent in 2019. There has been a corresponding increase in research aimed at understanding opinions and beliefs that are expressed online. However, the generalizability of findings from social media research is a subject of ongoing debate. Social media platforms are conduits of both information and misinformation about vaccines and vaccine hesitancy. Our research objective was to examine whether we can draw similar conclusions from Twitter and national survey data about the relationship between vaccine hesitancy and a broader set of beliefs. In 2018 we conducted a nationally representative survey of parents in the United

SUBMITTER: Nowak SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7544030 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature