Studying attitudes towards vaccine hesitance and California law SB 277 in online discourse: A dataset and methodology.

ABSTRACT: This article presents data that are further analyzed and interpreted in "Shouting at Each Other into the Void: A Semantic Network Analysis of Vaccine Hesitance and Support in Online Discourse Regarding California Law SB277" [1]. This research modified snowball sampling, a technique usually used to generate chains of informants that illuminate the structure of social networks, to collect digital documents following a chain of web links and recommendations, thus illuminating the underlying social, technical, and linguistic structure of online discourse. The resulting documents were manually coded according to the attitude towards vaccines they represented and/or the position they took with regard to California Senate Bill 277, a vaccine mandate policy that banned all nonmedical exemptions fr

SUBMITTER: DeDominicis K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7966830 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature