A Multi-Platform Approach to Monitoring Negative Dominance for COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Information Online
Author(s) -
Paola PascualFerrá,
Neil Alperstein,
Daniel J. Barnett
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.492
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1938-744X
pISSN - 1935-7893
DOI - 10.1017/dmp.2021.136
Subject(s) - dominance (genetics) , social media , covid-19 , adverse effect , vaccine safety , vaccination , psychology , medicine , computer science , biology , immunology , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , world wide web , pathology , biochemistry , immunization , gene , outbreak , antigen
The aim of this study was to test the appearance of negative dominance in COVID-19 vaccine-related information and activity online. We hypothesized that if negative dominance appeared, it would be a reflection of peaks in adverse events related to the vaccine, that negative content would attract more engagement on social media than other vaccine-related posts, and posts referencing adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccination would have a higher average toxicity score.
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