Examining Vaccine Sentiment on Twitter and Local Vaccine Deployment during the COVID-19 Pandemic

被引:2
作者
Martinez, Lourdes S. [1 ]
Savage, Matthew W. [1 ]
Jones, Elisabeth [2 ]
Mikita, Elizabeth [3 ]
Yadav, Varun [4 ]
Tsou, Ming-Hsiang [5 ]
机构
[1] San Diego State Univ, Sch Commun, San Diego, CA 92182 USA
[2] San Diego State Univ, Coll Arts & Letters, San Diego, CA 92182 USA
[3] San Diego State Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, San Diego, CA 92182 USA
[4] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Biochem, San Diego, CA 92093 USA
[5] San Diego State Univ, Dept Geog, San Diego, CA 92182 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
vaccines; Twitter; Communication Infrastructure Theory; sentiment; COVID-19; COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE THEORY; NEIGHBORHOOD; MEASLES; MEDIA; CONTROVERSY; ENGAGEMENT; COMMUNITY; POLITICS; NETWORK;
D O I
10.3390/ijerph20010354
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Understanding local public attitudes toward receiving vaccines is vital to successful vaccine campaigns. Social media platforms may help uncover vaccine sentiments during infectious disease outbreaks at the local level, and whether offline local events support vaccine-promotion efforts. Communication Infrastructure Theory (CIT) served as a guiding framework for this case study of the San Diego region examining local public sentiment toward vaccines expressed on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic. We performed a sentiment analysis (including positivity and subjectivity) of 187,349 tweets gathered from May 2020 to March 2021, and examined how sentiment corresponded with local vaccine deployment. The months of November and December (52.9%) 2020 saw a majority of tweets expressing positive sentiment and coincided with announcements of offline local events signaling San Diego's imminent deployment of COVID-19 vaccines. Across all months, tweets remained mostly objective (never falling below 63%). In terms of CIT, considering multiple levels of the Story Telling Network in online spaces, and examining sentiment about vaccines on Twitter may help scholars to explore the Communication Action Context, as well as cultivate positive community attitudes to improve the Field of Health Action regarding vaccines. Real-time analysis of local tweets during development and deployment of new vaccines may help monitor local public responses and guide promotion of immunizations in communities.
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